Florence Painting Experience: Create Your Florentine Lily

Immerse yourself in a Florentine artist of the past and unleash your creativity with the guidance of an experienced master who will explain step by step how to create your own painting that will portray the most characteristic symbol of Florence: the Florentine lily!
Crafty your own lily using the techniques of the great painters of the past and learn while having fun in the studio of a local artist and painting professor.

You'll be able to take the painting you created with Andrea's guidance home with you and give it to a friend or relative, or keep it as a unique and indelible memory of your trip.

Get your hands dirty by putting art into practice in the city of art par excellence. What place is better than this?

This experience is suitable for everyone and you don't need any kind of skill or experience to try your hand at it

Meeting Point

Via Enrico Petrella, 22

Via Enrico Petrella, 22, 50144 Firenze FI, Italy

When you arrive at 22 Via Enrico Petrella, buzz the doorbell "Bacalini" and Andrea will open the door for you. His studio is located on the third floor (with elevator)

What's included:

• You will be provided with all the tools and materials you need to be able to create your painting

What to expect:

Via Enrico Petrella, 22

In the course of this unique and exclusive activity, you can easily learn and practice art thanks to the guidance of Andrea, an expert master and artist with 25 years of experience.
He will show you step by step how to create your painting, that will portray the most characteristic symbol of Florence: the Florentine lily!

It will begin with Andrea explaining the origin of the painting techniques that will be used in the lesson and the materials, after which you will start getting your hands dirty!

Initially you will use a small prop to carve the shape of the lily on your canvas, trace the shape with the dusting technique and join in pencil the dots that form the image.

After that you will use the typical gilding technique, which consists of placing a gold foil on your painting, which you will then remove only within the edges of the lily design, resulting in a beautiful gold background.

Finally you will paint your lily in the color of your choice through the tempera painting technique et voila! Your personal painting depicting the Florentine lily on a golden background is ready and you can take it home with you as a souvenir and give it as a gift to friends and family