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ART AND SOUL RETREAT 2010
7 Night Greek Isles & Turkey Cruise
August 7 -14, 2010
August 7 - Depart Venice, Italy sailing aboard the "Splendor of the Seas"
August 8 - Visit historic Dubrovnik, Croatia
August 9 - Cruising
August 10 - Visit the ancient ruins of Ephesus, Turkey
August 11 - Visit scenic Santorini, Greece with its magnificent beaches
August 12 - Take in the sights of the old villages in Corfu, Greece
August 13 - Cruising
August 14 - Return to Venice, Italy
- Per Person Rates - Sharing Double Occupancy:
Balcony Cabin - $3,193
Ocean View - $2,648
Inside - $2,394
3rd/4th Person in Cabin:
Balcony - $2,324
Ocean View - $2,174
Inside - $2,074
- Price includes: shipboard accommodations, most meals, some beverages, most onboard entertainment, port charges, taxes, insurance, class with an instructor - your choice (see below), welcome cocktail party, shore excursion and a commemorative tote.
- Reasonable Airfares Are Available
- Deposit: $600.00 per person plus Insurance is due to hold your reservation.
- Final payment is due by June 1, 2010
Book this cruise online - Click Here
Class Offerings
1) An Aegean Travel Atlas-Map Journal Sketchbook & More… Oh My!
Instructors: Linda & Opie O’Brien
Over the past year we’ve been collecting the perfect vintage map that shows the Greek Isles, Turkey and even a small portion of Italy, our starting and ending destination, over in a corner.
Too cool! We folded it accordion style so you can work on both sides, bound it with heavy book board and even added a hand-bound coiled sketchbook with heavy watercolor paper to the back cover for additional field notes, sketches, collages or whatever inspires you. Whether you make your atlas-map/journal/sketchbook a doll or not is up to you and a simple process that we will share, but each of you will receive an original vintage map in a handmade bound book to begin our adventure. Opie even made everyone a small photo journal to hold your Pogo prints, a very cool process that we will introduce you to. Pogo printers are very small and a great journaling tool and best described as what happens if you crossed a Polaroid snapshot with an inkless printer. We never leave home without one. We’ll spend our workshop time collaging, painting, pogo printing and embellishing our book inside and out with pop-ups, windows and incorporating the various treasures we collect along the way. Save everything… beginning with your airline tickets and boarding passes.
2) Ancient Scavenger -
A Portfolio of Patina, Color, Texture & Treasures
Instructor - Lesley Riley
As artists, we are drawn to the texture of ancient surfaces. We find beauty in decay and the patinas of corrosion. And color….need I say more? Color is to us what a flower is to a bee. It is both a tool and an ingredient for creating the honey we call art.
What better place to discover and create these colors and surfaces than traveling through the ports of call we will visit on our cruise, the ancient cities of Venice, Dubrovnik, Santorini and more. You will learn how to create and recreate ancient surfaces: verdigris, rust, stucco, cracked plaster effects, peeling paint and more. We will create texture and patina sample cards and compile a color compendium using paint and collage, found ephemera, color and samples collected on your scavenger hunt through ancient lands. Yes, there will be a real scavenger hunt. You can work in teams or alone. The only rule will be to have fun.
Your mini works of art will find a home in the portfolio case you will construct on your first day of class, a unique container constructed from 2 canvases which you will work your magic on to create texture, patina and color. A unique storage system will be devised and an ancient binding technique will complete the case.
The case is similar to the project from Window to the Soul which was in the premier issue of Cloth Paper Scissors.
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