Pen and wash with Lizzie Connor:
July 15 – 22, 2023
A fabulous week of painting.
Paradise Courses is Fiji’s premier art destination – we’re long-established leaders in running exciting and rewarding art courses wrapped up in the glorious world of Pacific adventure and hospitality. We offer the best art retreats and adventures with carefully planned itineraries that include authentic cultural experiences – and of course have amazing teachers guiding you through it all. You’ll go on fabulous local excursions transformative off the beaten path, and delve into transformative experiences that will create memories to last a lifetime! Come with us on your perfect art adventure with Paradise Courses.
Price includes:
- All tuition fees – daily workshops with Lizzie Connor with personal attention
- Accommodation – choose from our bures at the front (Ocean View bures), or at the back (standard rooms)
- Meals : breakfast, lunch and dinner – a mix of local Fijian and Indian food and international recipes
- Excursions: experience the rich Fijian culture, snorkel on the fabulous coral reefs and revel in the abundant nature of the landscape and waterfalls.
You just need to buy your air ticket and art materials, and leave the rest to us.
Painting course
Pen and wash is a gorgeous medium, and if you’ve never tried it, you’ll be entranced at the way it combines the suggestive elements of watercolour with the firm lines of pen and ink. It can be applied to figurative painting or, just as easily, to abstract pieces to produces strong, evocative images.
- creating a number of different pen sketches of a diverse range of topics
- using a range of different tonal areas created by making lots of different lines and marks
- then overlaying lightly coloured wash or washes over selected areas of the drawing to emphasise focal points in the drawing.
Drawing materials to be played with will be felt tips, biros, and Indian ink and pens.
Lizzie’s course each day was on different parts of the island, taking in the beauty and surrounds of Savusavu. Lizzie is a very easy going , patient teacher with a wealth of knowledge in art, we learnt about applying water colours, washes, drawing, sketching, sometimes taking us out of our comfort zone and trying things we may usually not try. Improving our skills , making new friends and having fun doing something we all had in common, art! Classes where usually in the mornings, with the afternoons usually filled with different activities, like a drive into the country side to a gorgeous waterfall and swimming hole, visiting a local village for traditional welcoming, songs and dance. Going out to meet a local soap maker and learning of his home, his ancestors who owned his land before him, and his traditional craft of soap making. Free days in the village of Savusavu to wonder as you please. It was the perfect mixture of combining an art class and being a tourist and seeing some of the sites.
Michelle Tipper
This was pen and wash exercise, a very first time experience and quite a challenge for me. Lizzie was ever helpful with demonstrating and explaining techniques on different art surfaces using and experimenting with many different inks. Each day she took us in a new direction with a new focus and lovely locations to observe. I found Lizzie to be a very friendly and patient person who is also a very accomplished artist in the use of other art mediums. I have no hesitation in recommending her services as an art tutor.
Una Robinson
Over the last few years I have attended a number of art retreats around the world. Lizzie’s approach was both highly educational and lots of fun. I was new to pen and wash and to Fiji so didnt know what to expect. What I found was a beautiful location, wonderful people and lots of gentle guidance and encouragement from Lizzie. Perfect!
Penny Weir
Lizzie is an expert! I’m always learning something new from her……..and she manages to make her classes relaxed, inclusive and so much fun.
Caroline McGirr
Teacher Lizzie Connor
Originally from Sorrento in Victoria, Lizzie Connor now lives at Mudjimba on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She runs classes and workshops for both children and adults and conducts workshops in and around the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane at various galleries and facilities, and at her home studio at Mudjimba.
BOOK NOW! Prices per person
Pen and Wash Lizzie Connor 15 – 22 July 2023
AUD $2,550
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Our location : Savusavu, Fiji
During this week, you’ll enjoy the rich culture and unspoilt nature of Fiji, the place where happiness comes naturally. We’re in Savusavu in Fiji’s North – known as the Hidden Paradise because it really is! We’ll take you out to snorkel on the beautiful coral reefs, to plunge into fresh waterfalls, to visit traditional Fijian villages where you’ll see a deeply hospitable corner of Fiji.
We’ve got a full programme planned – with some spare time to just relax.
Our accommodation: Daku Resort
We’re located at Daku Resort near Savusavu in Fiji. It’s a small and comfortable resort: you can choose from Ocean View bures, or standard room rear bures.
Ocean View bure
Standard room – rear bure
Any questions? Drop us a line.
OR BOOK NOW! Prices per person
Pen and Wash Lizzie Connor 15 – 22 July 2023
AUD $2,550
BOOKING: