
Available courses
Thursday 21.09. – Thursday 28.09.2023
Thursday 28.09. – Thursday 05.10.2023
Thursday 05.10. – Thursday 12.10.2023
Venice has been seducing artists for centuries.
To draw in this unique, magic and timeless place, is an unforgettable experience. Guided by your maestro, you will experience many well-known views as well as less familiar ones. His expert guidance and teaching will enable you to take home a multitude of sketches and drawings reproducing this dream town for all artists and your own loved places in Venice.
PACKAGE PRICE:
€ 1.250,00 per person sharing a double or twin bedded room
€ 1.750,00 per person in a double room for single occupancy
The package price includes
- 07 overnights on half board basis (hot and cold buffet breakfast + 3-course lunch).
- Accommodation in single room with private facilities.
- Daily 30 minutes of technical introduction + 3 hours of common lesson, during which you will also learn to understand and speak basic Italian.
- Teaching in the dedicated hotel premises.
- All drawing material & basic artistic sitting stool.
The package price does not include
Anything that has not been mentioned under THE PACKAGE PRICE INCLUDES.
Optionals: (available every afternoon)
- € 50,00 individual lesson per person per hour
- € 100,00 special painting session to finish your drawing (minimum 2 hours)
We will donate on your behalf 5 % of the package price to the VENICE IN PERIL FUND for helping saving the treasures of Venice.
Reservation
Please book your drawing course direct with the RIVIERA HOTEL either by email: info@rivieravenezia.it or through our own web site www.rivieravenezia.it
We will donate on your behalf 5 % to the VENICE IN PERIL FUND for helping saving the treasures of Venice.

The Course
DAY 1
- After breakfast meeting in hotel lobby at 9:30 and introduction of daily programme.
- Boat ride to the Giardini and morning drawing session 10:00 – 12:30.
- Back to the hotel and after a light lunch homework improving your own work to be presented next day
DAY 2
- After breakfast meeting in our atelier at 9:00.
- Teaching session and daily programme to include the analyses of yesterday’s work and Venice drawing from the Giudecca Island from 10:00 to 13:00.
- Back to the hotel and after a light lunch homework improving your own work to be presented next day.
DAY 3
- After breakfast meeting in our atelier at 9:30.
- Teaching session and daily programme to include the analyses of yesterday’s work and Venice drawing from S. Maria Maggiore from 10:00 – 13:00.
- Back to the hotel and after a light lunch homework improving your own work to be presented next day.
DAY 4
- After breakfast meeting in our atelier at 09:30.
- Teaching session and daily programme to include the analyses of yesterday’s work.
- Today’s drawing from 10:00 – 13:00 is dedicated to Canal Grande.
- Back to the hotel and after a light lunch homework improving your own work to be presented next day.
DAY 5
- After Breakfast meeting in our atelier at 09:30.
- Teaching session and daily programme to include the analyses of yesterday’s work.
- Today’s drawing from 10:00 – 13:00 is dedicated to Canal Grande.
- Back to the hotel and after a light lunch homework improving your own work to be presented next day.
DAY 6
- After Breakfast meeting in our atelier at 09:30.
- Teaching session and daily programme to include the analyses of yesterday’s work. Today’s drawing from 10:00 – 13:00 is dedicated to a subject of your choice.
- After a light lunch and the improvement of your drawing you will learn how to present it beginning with its mounting and framing.
- The course will end with the exhibition and the final evaluation of all your works.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: The best works will be selected to be part of Adrian Tuchel’s own exhibition!!
Suitable for all ages
All drawing sites are accessible by water-boat, no stairs or bridge climbing necessary. In case of bad weather, all drawing spots from covered areas.
Result
- A set of beautiful views of Venice and numerous sketches.
- A knowledge of basic Italian vocabulary.
- A special gift from your artist-teacher with a passe-partout and frame for a picture of your choice in an exceptional gift box together with a personal dedication to take away with you.
- For the best pupils a chance to be exhibited in the artist’s own exhibition.

Adrian Turchel
Is a well-known artist in Venice. His knowledge of the town and its secrets is built on 30 years of experience.
Hotel RIVIERA is proud to host such an important artist. The restaurant and hotel are decorated with his own works including his big landscapes with the impressive Venice view, a work of 4.30 metres length.
Reproductions of his art-work are sold in Caffe’ Florian in Piazza San Marco.
His theme exhibitions of works about Venice, “Homage to the Venetian Architects” following the history of building Venice, are on display every second year, during the “Architecture Biennale” in different exclusive Venice locations.
You can order originals or prints of his works from his own website (All around the world deliveries):
www.adriantuchel.gallery
For further information please contact directly the artist on his e-mail: adrian@tuchel.co.uk