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About this trip
Come to historic and charming Glastonbury, Connecticut and experience creating and lodging at a beautiful colonial inn! This course focuses on "painting from a point", using a variety of pencils and surfaces to create dynamic, vividly-drawn paintings. Products used include watercolor pencils and waxy/oily colored pencils. Surfaces feature papers, boards, and even sanded papers. Featuring an abundance of colored pencils and art materials, this workshop is full to the brim with personal attention, demonstrations, and techniques that are sure to increase your repertoire.
Kristy Kutch is an experienced workshop instructor, the author of Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil and The New Colored Pencil. She is also the featured artist on four instructional DVDs.
About Kristy Kutch
Kristy Kutch is a graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, with both bachelor's and master's degrees in education, as well as a life license in teaching. She has taught almost 300 drawing workshops nationwide for students of all ages. Her educational style is friendly, relaxed, enthusiastic, and supportive of the individual student's uniquely personal style. Cultivating the enthusiasm of her students, Kristy tailors her instruction to beginners and accomplished artists alike. Her instructional book, Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil, was a summer, 2005 release from Watson-Guptill Publications. It has also been featured as a main selection for the North Light Book Club. Her second techniques book, The New Colored Pencil, was a 2014 Watson-Guptill release and is a comprehensive study of drawing in color. It also explores various compatible art surfaces, plus techniques for colored pencils, both “dry’ and watercolor. Ideas and guidance for the use of wax pastels are included, too.
Kristy is a contributor to The Best of Colored Pencil 1, 3, and 5; Creative Colored Pencil; Design: Illustration; The Best of Business Card Design 3 and 5; Creating Radiant Flowers in Colored Pencil; Exploring Color (revised edition); Floral Inspirations, Colored Pencil Explorations, Signature Showcase, and Northwest Colored Pencil Tips .. She has also filmed four instructional DVDs (Artist Palette Productions) , Colored Pencil Landscapes: Beyond the Basics; (F. & W. Media) Colored Pencil Techniques: How to Paint Fruit; Watercolor Pencil Techniques: How to Paint Flowers, and Colored Pencil Techniques: Easy Landscape Painting.
What’s included
- Workshop Tuition
- Guest RoomsGuest room ammenities include Towels, soap, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, hair dryers, in room coffeemaker, mini fridge, t.v., internet, lap desks, yoga mats
- Welcome ReceptionLight appetizers and refreshments
- All Meals and SnacksIncludes 4 nights of dinner, lunch and breakfast, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer
- Art SuppliesIf art supplies are included in the price of the retreat, it will show in the description.
What’s not included
- TransportationTaxis and rental cars available at airport. We may be able to pick you up at the airport or train station with prior arrangements.
- Optional ExcusionsSee below for fun and inspiring add-on excursions
- Art SuppliesYour instructor will reach out with details on needed materials and supplies. You can have your supplies shipped directly to us if you do not want to travel with them.
- Travel InsuranceAlthough we do not require trip insurance, we VERY HIGHLY recommend it. Here is a link for purchasing Trip Insurance where you can compare rates and coverage. https://www.travelinsurance.com/
Available Packages
Price is per person. Double Occupancy. You each have your own "sleeping nook" with fun and cozy privacy curtains and your own closet for personal items And your own bathrobe. You share an en-suite bathroom
We assign all students to rooms based on giving everyone a great space. All double occupancy rooms are in the main property
This fee DOES NOT INCLUDE State of Ct Room Occupancy/Sales Tax of 11%.
Here is the breakdown:
Single Room Retreat Fee $1950
Accommodation/Sales Tax 11% $215 This tax will be added onto your final payment invoice
TOTAL Retreat Fee $2165
A room all to myself but with a shared bathroom and at The Cardinal House, an 1800's historic Victorian adjacent to The Connecticut River Valley Inn
This fee DOES NOT INCLUDE State of Ct Room Occupancy/Sales Tax of 11%.
Here is the breakdown:
Single Room Retreat Fee $2295
Accommodation/Sales Tax 11% $253 This tax will be added onto your final payment invoice
TOTAL Retreat Fee with tax $2548
A room all to myself with my own private en-suite bathroom and balcony in the Main House
This fee DOES NOT INCLUDE State of Ct Room Occupancy/Sales Tax of 11%.
Here is the breakdown:
Single Room Retreat Fee $2650
Accommodation/Sales Tax 11% $292 This tax will be added onto your final payment invoice
TOTAL Retreat Fee $2942
For participants who don't need overnight lodging. Price is per person and includes lunch only. Doesn't include 24/7 after hours studio use after end of workshop.
This fee DOES NOT INCLUDE State of Ct Room Occupancy/Sales Tax of 6.45%.
Here is the breakdown:
Single Room Retreat Fee $975
Accommodation/Sales Tax 6.45 $63 This tax will be added onto your final payment invoice
TOTAL Retreat Fee $1038
There are no prepay discounts for the Day Student rate
Do you have a loved one who you want to join you but WILL NOT be taking any classes? Use this add-on. This fee includes everything that the full rate includes EXCEPT for the classroom time.
This fee DOES NOT INCLUDE State of Ct Room Occupancy/Sales Tax of 11%.
Here is the breakdown:
Extra Guest $1200
Accommodation/Sales Tax 11% $132 This tax will be added onto your final payment invoice
TOTAL Retreat Fee $1332
There are no pre-pay discounts for this choice
Available options
Itinerary
5pm Welcome Reception - meet your fellow students reception with appetizers and refreshments.
Room check ins begin at 3pm