Drawing has less to do with skillful hands and more with how one sees the world. This course aims to teach you a different way to see the world. Drawing is a basis for everything. This is especially true for painting, where besides the physical mixing of colour and the tactile of the paint, everything else is drawn. The aim of this course is to teach you the fundamentals, which create a solid basis that can be further developed to any directions.

Swiss visual artist Alexandra Mia Monkewitz will guide you step-by-step to realise a beginner friendly acrylic portrait of your pet. How? After booking this event, you will be asked to send up to 5 photos of your pet (or any animal you’d like to paint) via e-mail. Alexandra will choose one with the best composition for your painting and she’ll also prepare a drawing template what you’ll transfer onto the canvas with carbon paper. After just 3 hours you can walk off delightedly with a self-made portrait of your animal friend.

You always wanted to know how to make beautiful postcards? How they write these cool-looking words on the windows in cafes and bars? Or you just want to stop spending so much time in front of a screen and create something great with your own hands? Then handlettering is for you!

What is urban sketching? It‘s basically drawing on location, capturing and documenting what we see from direct observation, indoors and outdoors. Urban sketchers tell the story of their surroundings, their point of view, the places they live and where they travel. The drawings are a record of a certain point in time and place. This workshop is created for sketching enthusiasts with no prior experience, that wish to begin their sketching journey.

Sugar skulls are colorful traditional pieces of Southern Mexican art. They often appear around the Day of the Dead holiday, which coincides with Halloween. A sugar skull features a human skull shape that is decorated with vibrant flowers, swirls, diamonds and other designs. The sugar skull is a symbol to welcome the friendly spirits.

Instantly recognizable, Katsushika Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa gracefully distills the power of the ocean into a two-dimensional image that's as deceptively simple as it is mesmerizing. But what lies beneath this beloved 19th century masterpiece might surprise you.

Swiss visual artist Alexandra Mia Monkewitz will introduce you to a classical painting technique called grisaille. The point of grisaille is to achieve three dimensional effect with different shades and tones of grey. You will practice the technique by painting baroque ornaments on a wooden box to turn it into a fancy desk accessory organiser.

Magnetic midnight is the time of day when the North or South Magnetic Pole is exactly in between the sun and an observer on earth's surface. This is the best time for observing auroras. An aurora a.k.a. polar lights display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.

The workshop will provide all the tricks to get you started on your introduction to basic print techniques . Printmaking is a fun way to create images that can be used as poster art, t-shirt & fabric designs, propaganda prints, or limited edition fine art prints. It's excellent as a handmade gift. Great for singles, couples, groups, travelers and locals. Marcela will guide you through all the steps to make some rather impressive prints. During the workshop we should have drawn out, carved and inked up your linoleum, which will be transferred to paper and a tote bag.

The Persistence of Memory (1931) is one of the most iconic and recognizable paintings of Surrealism. Frequently referenced in popular culture, the small canvas (24x33 cm) is sometimes known as “Melting Clocks”, “The Soft Watches” and “The Melting Watches”. The painting depicts a dreamworld in which common objects are deformed and displayed in a bizarre and irrational way: watches, solid and hard objects appear to be inexplicably limp and melting in the desolate landscape. Dalí paints his fantastical vision in a meticulous and realistic manner: he effortlessly integrates the real and the imaginary in order “to systemize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality”.

Unlike our other Workshops, where we focus on certain techniques and steps to reach a particular result, here we are all about the process of creating, and not the end-result. Perhaps you’ll create something beautiful, perhaps you’ll create something beautifully chaotic. Either way, the only goal is to let go of our obsession with goals. Embrace your intuition and let go of your thoughts, all we ask you to bring is yourself.

Discover the path that leads you from a blank canvas to breathtaking fields. Italian artist Paolo Fratello takes you to this art-venture and teaches you the basics of oil painting. He guides you through the process of realising two stunning landscapes painted with the classical approach called glazing. We call it glazing, when a thin layer of paint is applied on top of your underpainting, resulting in rich, iridescent colours - an ideal way to create truly vibrant landscapes.

Swiss visual artist Alexandra Mia Monkewitz will guide you step-by-step to realise a beginner friendly acrylic portrait of your pet. How? After booking this event, you will be asked to send up to 5 photos of your pet (or any animal you’d like to paint) via e-mail. Alexandra will choose one with the best composition for your painting and she’ll also prepare a drawing template what you’ll transfer onto the canvas with carbon paper. After just 3 hours you can walk off delightedly with a self-made portrait of your animal friend.

Swiss visual artist Alexandra Mia Monkewitz will introduce you to a classical painting technique called grisaille. The point of grisaille is to achieve three dimensional effect with different shades and tones of grey. You will practice the technique by painting baroque ornaments on a wooden box to turn it into a fancy desk accessory organiser.