Rocky Promo Video

I had some free time before we left the villa so I put together a video for the potential students to watch and see what the villa life was like. Here's what I came up with: 

Thanksgiving Italia

Here are a few shots of Thanksgiving dinner in Italy. It was a wonderful time full of great food and a giant turkey! 

Getting ready for the first time in a while... 

Appetizers:

First Course: 

Our 15 kilo Turkey

The carving

3rd course 

And here are a couple of shots from Corciano, Migiana, and Antonella's studio 

The double rainbow over Migiana

Antonella's studio 

Harvesting Olives 

One little slope down from Corciano 

Art Field Trips: Deruda and Cociano

This past week we had a couple of art outings to local towns. Deruda is a city in Italy that has been producing pottery in the mijolica style since the 1200's. It was a great experience to go and see how it's all done and get some shots of the people, process, and products. There are also some shots of our walk up to Corciano for another art outing. 

Chilly day in Deruda brought the group closer together. 

The leader of our tour. 

In the drying room.

Appreciating the drying pottery. 

Nearly ready to have the first layer of glass. 

Explaining the process. 

Soaking in knowledge. 

Outside visit to the pile of clay. 

Finding the Beatles signatures in the guest book. 

Fall in Deruda. 

Migiana

Caffe Latte in Corciano

Perugia, Printmaking and New Experiences with Coffee

This past week as been spent traveling to Perugia, Deruda, and working on our printmaking class. Here are some shots that have come of it all. (Deruda is still to come).

The bus stop to Perugia. More or less should be called the bus post, there's not much to signify a stop apart from that. 

After ordering what he thought was a caffe Americano, we discovered that caffe was straight shot of espresso and no dilution. Same kick as coffee just concentrated. 

Fall in Perugia 

Custom satellite dish in Perugia

Backyard of a local casa. 

The same backyard with the dirt basketball court. 

Printmaking 

Printing

Rolling ink

Sending it through the press

More inking

Night Shots from Sardegna

Here are some of the night shots we got from the beach in Sardegna. It was quite difficult to get all of the aspects in line due to limited lighting but it was an experience and quite fun to work with.