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Our 2025 Workshop Fun
The picturesque mountains of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna provide an engaging backdrop of amazing scenic opportunities. In September of 2025, we painted lakes and water, mountains, trees, and ancient structures. Here are just a few of the intriguing snapshots of the results of
our fun.
Via Tamburu, Pievepelago
Along the historic Via Tamburu in Pievepelago, the light peaks through alleys of the buildings on the left to streak extraordinary strips of warm sunlight on the ancient stone walkway which sat mostly in shadow. Emiliano taught us how to capture the light and the shadow to dramatize the quaint centuries old road.
400 Year old oven of the Fontanini Hamlet
Just outside of Pievepelago, on the road to Lago Santo (Holy Lake), lies an incredible little hamlet of ancient stone houses on the road to Monticello, another unique mountain church. This small building in Fontanini is a stand alone oven and has been used for hundreds of years as a neighborhood communal oven. Mr. Erio Mordini shares: In the 1940's when I was a young boy, the bread oven was a central part of the small hamlet where villagers shared bread baking daily. I will never forget that wonderful aroma of freshly baked bread that would penetrate the village. But my favoirite memory of the oven was when my Nonna would bake Castagnaccio out of chestnut flour and a sprinkling of walnuts. My favorite treat!
S. Anna Pelago Church and Bell Tower
From Piazza di sotto, we learned a distinctive painting technique of portraying roundness in a structure like the rear apse of the church. Emiliano shared his secrets to successfully depict the semicircular shape on our two dimensional canvas. And as we painted, we experienced the amazing ding-donging of the bells as they hit 12:00 noon. We all stopped painting till the ringing ended and we could hear ourselves think again. So much fun!
S. Anna Pelago Village
From the panoramic Parco Bimbi, we enjoyed the scenery of Monte Cimone while we challenged ourselves to the village structures beneath us. While some of us took a break and played on the teeter tauter, others took a photo opprotunity of the "Heart of S. Anna" with Monte Cimone in the background.
