www.dianagessler.com
June 29 - July 9, 2010
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler has kept personal illustrated travel journals for more than thirty years. Amazed by her journals, Algonquin Books contracted Diana to write and illustrate a series of successful, journal-like travel books: Very Washington DC, Very New Orleans, Very Charleston, and Very California. The Sampoerna Legacy was privately commissioned to chronicle, in Diana’s signature journal style, an Indonesian family’s 100-year-old legacy. Diana has taught students at all levels how to see and journal nuances of travel experiences, recording their own insights in watercolor washes and pen and ink drawings. Students will learn how to enhance their adventures with simple maps, fancy lettering, caricatures, and collage that will preserve every trip in a very treasured way. Exploring their own personal creative style, students will walk away with the belief that Diana has forever changed the way they travel and “see the world around them.” A fine artist working in oil and watercolor, she is represented by Shaw Gallery in Naples, Florida. To learn more about Diana, visit www.dianagessler.com.
Itinerary
Independent Arrival in Bordeaux
Depart U.S.A. on overnight flight to any European gateway city. Catch a connecting flight to Bordeaux. If you fly into Paris, the TGV fast train is an option.
Day 1
4:00 p.m. Meet our Private Coach in Bordeaux for the scenic, two-hour drive into the Périgord and Petit Rousset. Welcome Dinner.
Petit Rousset – Our home, an 18th century farmhouse, provides many opportunities for painting, sketching & relaxing – in the garden, on the terrace, by the pool, or in our new Art Studio.
A sampling of our Destinations
Our explorations of the towns and villages described below will often be on bustling Market Days. We’ll visit other villages as serene as stage sets, waiting for us to bring them to life. We will also enjoy a guided visit to a cave with prehistoric paintings, a medieval fortress, a Renaissance chateau and a water mill where they make paper by hand, the old fashioned way.
