So wonderful how quickly a group of people can bond over a shared interest/experience….parting is always hard. Everybody needs a Grady…sounds like he was an integral part of making your workshop a success!
SUCH GOOD VIBES. Loved your dramatic "I'm going to paint a MASTERPIECE even though I've never touched oil paint before" moment. That reminds me of SOOOO many folks who come through my store expecting to run before they even walk. I'mma sign up for your newsletter in case you ever hold a workshop within driving distance. :)
Hi Sandi I couldn’t wait for your video today. I just got home about 3 hours ago from my second hand surgery and this is exactly the medicine I needed. Thank you!!
Oh my, what a wonderful video, so full of excitement and pure joy! Love coming along with everyone through your videos, thank you so much for sharing that exciting adventure with those of us who can’t go, what a treat!! Thank you for everything you put into making these, all the extra work just to inspire us, and does it ever! Give our thanks to Grady for capturing the moments so we could “come along” with y’all virtually! Love love love “Sandi Fridays”! To a lot of us There are the dull and uneventful Fridays, and then there are the exciting and oh so eagerly awaited Sandi Fridays, just in case you weren’t aware. lol
Sandi, that was such a wonderful art retreat and trip, thank you for sharing!!! I love your loose playful style and the Italian landscapes and cityscapes, and your inspiring enthusiasm in getting your students to let go, free up and just paint!!! Would love to join one of your online courses and get over my art timidity!!! I have been following you on TH-cam for the last few years and really enjoy and appreciate your vlogs!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video, Sandi! You really put us there in the moment with you. The work you’ve produced from there is just gorgeous! I cannot wait for the next video showcasing it all. 🥰
Amazing Sandi - this has been so wonderful to see so much of your wonderful retreat - I learned so much and so appreciate you taking us along. I can't wait to see all the sketches and paintings that you did.
I totally understand the frustration. I went in September for 10 days to Spain. The first three days I couldn't sketch because I was with a dear friend and we needed to "see" everything, which was vastly fun and wonderful. I took hundreds of photos and I will select some to paint in my studio. The next five days I had some touring to do, too (palaces, churches, museums), but when I was alone, I was able to sketch in pencil and make watercolor paintings. And although I made very few sketches (4 or 5) and very few watercolors (4), they are some of the best quality I've ever done as plein air work. Looking forward to the next such "painting" trip. Love you, Sandi!
It's taken me a while to get to watching this (busy times). First, I'd like to say that the woman in the striped dress is an absolute stunner! I love that you had a large age range of people, although kind of sad that there were no fellas in the group. I'm so curious about the work that was created by the participants, particularly those who may not have previously worked in that style. I'd love to see how they adapted their regular practice into the context of the workshop. When I looked at some of those gorgeous locations I thought "what? Only 15 minutes? I could have stayed there all day!". Wouldn't it be wonderful if you'd had another week where there was no structured lessons, but each person revisited their favourite sites from the class and then spent more time painting there, with a show and tell to compare everyone's work in the evening. It looks like a dream, but I definitely would have needed a few days on my own afterwards to re-explore and go deeper. Maybe next time. (Also if the next time you chose the adriatic coast in Croatia I could act as an interpreter (hint, hint).
Yippee, thought we weren’t going to get this until tomorrow! Thank you Sandi for making my weekend! I’m so sorry you guys had sadness and sickness when you got home. I bet you and Grady are still exhausted. I’m praying for you. Thank you again for sharing your life and art with us.
I wish we had done a sketchbook throw down so we could take a photo of all of the market truck sketches together. Thanks for recapping the last part of our trip so well.
Wow Sandy, what a beautiful experience that all of you had in Italy. I enjoyed watching your videos of this awe inspiring trip. Inspiration galore I find myself feeling to getting back to sketching and painting from my photos of holiday excursions past and of course to do some travelling someday soon myself. I’ve left Instagram, but I am enjoying you still very much here on TH-cam. Your oil painting of a table setting with spotted teapot, pears and that delicious glass of orange juice that I purchased from you will still take centre stage when I move to a new house soon. You’re an amazing artist, funny and naturally talented in so many ways. You’re a gift to all of us, a kindred spirit to many. Always a fan, Conny from Canada. 🥰
Thanks for the open and honest video of how this retreat went. I learnt so much! If you ever do an art retreat in South Africa, I'd be so excited to take part. 💪🏼💪🏼✨✨🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing all of this wonderful art retreat in Sicily, Sandi and Grady. For those of us who couldn't go, it is a treasure - I will watch it again. Next time probably won't be quite so exhausting.
You are a delight, Sandi! And I love seeing your process of what you choose to put on paper in those quick outdoor sketches. I love all the landscapes, but I think my fave was the food truck! Can't wait to see the entirety of the work next vid.
Wishing I could have been there and helped with the translation. Lived in Italy for a year and a half many years ago when I was single. This took me back to art school days. I was never very good at drawing in a confined time frame but it definitely forces you to catch the essence of the moment. Honestly can't wait to go back to Europe. I don't remember ever being so inspired to get out and paint as after watching your Italy videos. New subscriber.😊
Yaaaay Sandi Friday Fortnights 😁 ooooh I love your sketches!! Your paintings have so much character Sandi 😍 a wonderful childlike naivete about them which I really do love ❤ loose and free 😀 with so much energy! Sicily looks divine and I kind of envied your freedom tbh...one day I will visit there. You might not agree with me on that re: freedom. It looked quite intense with so much to cover. I so look forward to seeing your sketchbooks and paintings from this retreat in 2 weeks though. Thank you Sandi 😊 (maybe someday you can include the Republic of Ireland on your list for a retreat? She has a lot to offer ❤😁😉💚 🇨🇮
I NEED to know who the girl at 24:10 is. I would love to visit her IG or YT whatever she has, I would love to watch her work in detail. Sandi, thank you so much for sharing all these moments with us, it is priceless❤❤❤
Terrific ! what a wonderful time you all had in Italy and very interesting to watch.. love all the art work and look forward to seeing further developments fro the trip. Thank you from the UK
Awe, I loved this video. Thank you for sharing, I feel like I was there with you all. The problem with travel is it’s exhausting and sickness lurks. lol.
USA. . . so many places ... divide the states in like 8ths and plan out stops that are amazingly scenic... and not come home sick. Like right now, the fall leaves, then the mountains at any time of year, small towns and cities everywhere in our country gives us our history and we can have beautiful art of our beautiful country.... and plz Florida, Ann Florida fan 😅
This absolutely made my hands itch to get back into quick sketches, I did that all the time as a student and this made me realize how exciting that was, such a joy to see this and it shows in the paintings and drawings! 🤩 That clip of your ‘dramatization’ cracked me up, so accurate though 😅 (I’m so sorry to hear about your loss 💛)
I really enjoyed this video. It captures the essence of the trip. Looks like you all had frantic, adrenaline filled fun! Lol. I am sure this trip became the time of your lives. I love it when you found the microphone on the bus. That was great. Why should the tour guide be the only one to use the microphone? It looks like you were a very good teacher to the people. Thank you for sharing this good time with us.😊❤
I love love your videos! Too short 😢 haha. I want to go on a retreat someday with you so I will be signed up as you mentioned. I look forward to the next wrap up video! Will you have a video on what supplies worked and didn’t work on that retreat? Since you did a packing one, I’m sure you will have adjustments which would be interesting. Anyhow that so much for this beautiful video. I did a 5 week trip of Italy and remember how beautiful it all was.
It all looks so amazing and FUN!! Would it maybe be possible for you to show some of the works the students made? I would love to see the progress you talked about., also Im just interested in seeing hos they interpreted the places and motifs. And oh girl how I wish I could participate in something like this some day 🥰 Thank you for your generosity in everything you share!
I would absolutely luv a copy of that black & white photo of you and those 2 gents...any chance ? Luv this weeks video guys, can't wait 2 weeks. I'm off on an artist residency in Majorca on the 23rd Oct, can't wait 😅
How do you create art for I'm assuming decades? but still have such naive matks and forms, even when drawing representational work in the outdoors? I've watched your videos a few times and you obviously have a huge amount of experience to share with your use of materials, colour and different approaches etc. But I am really puzzled by the way your art looks like a 6 year old child's. Is it a deliberate chosen style? Can you really draw, but you choose to interpret reality in this way?
Honestly, I have been wondering the same thing for a while. I love her color choices/schemes, but the art itself really looks like a kid painted it. I don’t get it, but I guess maybe is a certain kind of style. Idk
So wonderful how quickly a group of people can bond over a shared interest/experience….parting is always hard. Everybody needs a Grady…sounds like he was an integral part of making your workshop a success!
SUCH GOOD VIBES. Loved your dramatic "I'm going to paint a MASTERPIECE even though I've never touched oil paint before" moment. That reminds me of SOOOO many folks who come through my store expecting to run before they even walk. I'mma sign up for your newsletter in case you ever hold a workshop within driving distance. :)
Yes we’ve all been there haven’t we?!?!
Your retreat looks like it was such an amazing experience! I’m really looking forward to your next video where you share more of the artwork you made!
Thank you so much!!
Hi Sandi I couldn’t wait for your video today. I just got home about 3 hours ago from my second hand surgery and this is exactly the medicine I needed. Thank you!!
Ohhhh I’m glad to hear it was good medicine!
Oh my, what a wonderful video, so full of excitement and pure joy! Love coming along with everyone through your videos, thank you so much for sharing that exciting adventure with those of us who can’t go, what a treat!! Thank you for everything you put into making these, all the extra work just to inspire us, and does it ever! Give our thanks to Grady for capturing the moments so we could “come along” with y’all virtually! Love love love “Sandi Fridays”! To a lot of us There are the dull and uneventful Fridays, and then there are the exciting and oh so eagerly awaited Sandi Fridays, just in case you weren’t aware. lol
Sooooo glad you enjoyed it ❤️
The black and white photo with the two Italian guys is fabulous…. (The village squares are pronounced Pea-at-za)
Sandi, that was such a wonderful art retreat and trip, thank you for sharing!!!
I love your loose playful style and the Italian landscapes and cityscapes, and your inspiring enthusiasm in getting your students to let go, free up and just paint!!!
Would love to join one of your online courses and get over my art timidity!!!
I have been following you on TH-cam for the last few years and really enjoy and appreciate your vlogs!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much!
This video has been sitting in my notifications bar for 3 days as I wait for the ✨️perfect✨️ time to watch it and it was worth the wait 🎉
I loved watching this so much and hearing you talk about the adventure. What a special time in a beautiful place.
Thank you so much for this video, Sandi! You really put us there in the moment with you. The work you’ve produced from there is just gorgeous! I cannot wait for the next video showcasing it all. 🥰
Amazing Sandi - this has been so wonderful to see so much of your wonderful retreat - I learned so much and so appreciate you taking us along. I can't wait to see all the sketches and paintings that you did.
I totally understand the frustration. I went in September for 10 days to Spain. The first three days I couldn't sketch because I was with a dear friend and we needed to "see" everything, which was vastly fun and wonderful. I took hundreds of photos and I will select some to paint in my studio. The next five days I had some touring to do, too (palaces, churches, museums), but when I was alone, I was able to sketch in pencil and make watercolor paintings. And although I made very few sketches (4 or 5) and very few watercolors (4), they are some of the best quality I've ever done as plein air work. Looking forward to the next such "painting" trip. Love you, Sandi!
It's taken me a while to get to watching this (busy times). First, I'd like to say that the woman in the striped dress is an absolute stunner! I love that you had a large age range of people, although kind of sad that there were no fellas in the group. I'm so curious about the work that was created by the participants, particularly those who may not have previously worked in that style. I'd love to see how they adapted their regular practice into the context of the workshop. When I looked at some of those gorgeous locations I thought "what? Only 15 minutes? I could have stayed there all day!". Wouldn't it be wonderful if you'd had another week where there was no structured lessons, but each person revisited their favourite sites from the class and then spent more time painting there, with a show and tell to compare everyone's work in the evening. It looks like a dream, but I definitely would have needed a few days on my own afterwards to re-explore and go deeper. Maybe next time. (Also if the next time you chose the adriatic coast in Croatia I could act as an interpreter (hint, hint).
This is so incredibly sweet. So glad you shared it all. What memories!
Isn’t sandy just the cutest? We’d be the best of friends! Great video, Italy is next on my bucket list.
Yippee, thought we weren’t going to get this until tomorrow! Thank you Sandi for making my weekend! I’m so sorry you guys had sadness and sickness when you got home. I bet you and Grady are still exhausted. I’m praying for you. Thank you again for sharing your life and art with us.
So glad it made your weekend Kym 🤗
what a great experience for you and all the students!! Love seeing the tours and the at work. thank you! Love your Santa fe class for sure
Sooo glad you liked the class!!!!
I wish we had done a sketchbook throw down so we could take a photo of all of the market truck sketches together. Thanks for recapping the last part of our trip so well.
Ohhhh that would have been great Carol!
Wow Sandy, what a beautiful experience that all of you had in Italy. I enjoyed watching your videos of this awe inspiring trip. Inspiration galore I find myself feeling to getting back to sketching and painting from my photos of holiday excursions past and of course to do some travelling someday soon myself. I’ve left Instagram, but I am enjoying you still very much here on TH-cam. Your oil painting of a table setting with spotted teapot, pears and that delicious glass of orange juice that I purchased from you will still take centre stage when I move to a new house soon. You’re an amazing artist, funny and naturally talented in so many ways. You’re a gift to all of us, a kindred spirit to many.
Always a fan, Conny from Canada. 🥰
Looks like it was an amazing experience! I am looking forward to seeing your artwork in the next video 💗💗💗
What a fabulous experience! Thank you for sharing it with us. I absolutely love what you painted there and from there.
Thank you Sandi. I look forward to the next video.
Thanks for the open and honest video of how this retreat went. I learnt so much! If you ever do an art retreat in South Africa, I'd be so excited to take part. 💪🏼💪🏼✨✨🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thank you for sharing all of this wonderful art retreat in Sicily, Sandi and Grady. For those of us who couldn't go, it is a treasure - I will watch it again. Next time probably won't be quite so exhausting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are a delight, Sandi! And I love seeing your process of what you choose to put on paper in those quick outdoor sketches. I love all the landscapes, but I think my fave was the food truck! Can't wait to see the entirety of the work next vid.
The food truck was soooo much fun to draw!
Loved loved loved this Sandi beautiful artwork too ❤😊
great footage, gave a real sense of being there with the group - inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful to see everyone so happy and eager to paint!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Wishing I could have been there and helped with the translation. Lived in Italy for a year and a half many years ago when I was single. This took me back to art school days. I was never very good at drawing in a confined time frame but it definitely forces you to catch the essence of the moment. Honestly can't wait to go back to Europe. I don't remember ever being so inspired to get out and paint as after watching your Italy videos. New subscriber.😊
Yaaaay Sandi Friday Fortnights 😁 ooooh I love your sketches!! Your paintings have so much character Sandi 😍 a wonderful childlike naivete about them which I really do love ❤ loose and free 😀 with so much energy! Sicily looks divine and I kind of envied your freedom tbh...one day I will visit there. You might not agree with me on that re: freedom. It looked quite intense with so much to cover. I so look forward to seeing your sketchbooks and paintings from this retreat in 2 weeks though. Thank you Sandi 😊 (maybe someday you can include the Republic of Ireland on your list for a retreat? She has a lot to offer ❤😁😉💚 🇨🇮
Ireland would be amazing to go to!
Hi, sounds amazing!1
Ahhh it looks like you all had so much fun. I love this!
Yes! Thank you!
Looks like such a great time and lots of wonderful work. Hope you will teach in the UK sometime 🤞
I hope to teach there at some point - love it there!
Or in spain?? 😊😊
I NEED to know who the girl at 24:10 is. I would love to visit her IG or YT whatever she has, I would love to watch her work in detail. Sandi, thank you so much for sharing all these moments with us, it is priceless❤❤❤
an energetic expressive artist who talks a lot can be dangerous when given a microphone 😉😀😛those views are just amazing!!
Thank you for sharing what a wonderful adventure!
Our pleasure!
It all looks amazing. Your '3 bristle brush' video so funny.and the black and white photo of you abd the 2 Italian men is lovely..it looks fab there❤❤
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love it!
Terrific ! what a wonderful time you all had in Italy and very interesting to watch.. love all the art work and look forward to seeing further developments fro the trip. Thank you from the UK
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved this 🎉
So glad!
Awe, I loved this video. Thank you for sharing, I feel like I was there with you all. The problem with travel is it’s exhausting and sickness lurks. lol.
I enjoyed that recap. Thanks, Sandi!
So glad!
What a fun adventure! So cool to watch:)
P.S.A. The "z" in Piazza is pronounced as the english "ts":)
I would have just said like the sound in pizza
Looks like there’s a lot of beautiful subjects to paint there.
For sure!
We luv you Gradyv❤🎉
Yes we do Grady! ❤️
People would definitely love if you purchased their work
USA. . . so many places ... divide the states in like 8ths and plan out stops that are amazingly scenic... and not come home sick. Like right now, the fall leaves, then the mountains at any time of year, small towns and cities everywhere in our country gives us our history and we can have beautiful art of our beautiful country.... and plz Florida, Ann Florida fan 😅
I’m only in my 20’s but I hope I have enough resources to go on a retreat like this one day!
I just wondered if you and Grady are ok after all the flooding from the hurricane. I think you mentioned you were in Tennessee?
This absolutely made my hands itch to get back into quick sketches, I did that all the time as a student and this made me realize how exciting that was, such a joy to see this and it shows in the paintings and drawings! 🤩
That clip of your ‘dramatization’ cracked me up, so accurate though 😅
(I’m so sorry to hear about your loss 💛)
Glad you enjoyed the reenactment 😂🤗
I really enjoyed this video. It captures the essence of the trip. Looks like you all had frantic, adrenaline filled fun! Lol. I am sure this trip became the time of your lives. I love it when you found the microphone on the bus. That was great. Why should the tour guide be the only one to use the microphone? It looks like you were a very good teacher to the people. Thank you for sharing this good time with us.😊❤
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Hi , I don’t know if this has been asked before But are you taking pictures to be able to paint in the future?
Watching from New Zealand. What a great trip. How did you keep your paint from drying in minutes in the sun. I love your videos. ❤
I actually didn’t have any problems with it
I love love your videos! Too short 😢 haha. I want to go on a retreat someday with you so I will be signed up as you mentioned. I look forward to the next wrap up video! Will you have a video on what supplies worked and didn’t work on that retreat? Since you did a packing one, I’m sure you will have adjustments which would be interesting. Anyhow that so much for this beautiful video. I did a 5 week trip of Italy and remember how beautiful it all was.
I’ll give that some thought about the supplies that worked Gwen!
Hi fellow artist that were on your trip...those 10 mins mark making session change your practice. 😊😂
Hi, why did u stop doing substance? They were great!
Such interesting sketches, will we get to see them all?
It all looks so amazing and FUN!! Would it maybe be possible for you to show some of the works the students made? I would love to see the progress you talked about., also Im just interested in seeing hos they interpreted the places and motifs. And oh girl how I wish I could participate in something like this some day 🥰 Thank you for your generosity in everything you share!
Not sure how to accomplish that but it’s a good isea
I agree. I kept wanting to see what the students made.
So funny the part about the microphone stretched to the 3rd row😂! I sensed you would have been singing in Italian in no time given the chance. 😂😂😂😂
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Oh no thanks for the info
I would absolutely luv a copy of that black & white photo of you and those 2 gents...any chance ?
Luv this weeks video guys, can't wait 2 weeks.
I'm off on an artist residency in Majorca on the 23rd Oct, can't wait 😅
Ohhh fun!
...because "all the bad goes into the good." Where have I heard that before?! 😅
Yessssss
Are there any artists in here that are in the Dallas Ft Worth area? Anyone who might want to do a meet up?
How do you create art for I'm assuming decades? but still have such naive matks and forms, even when drawing representational work in the outdoors? I've watched your videos a few times and you obviously have a huge amount of experience to share with your use of materials, colour and different approaches etc. But I am really puzzled by the way your art looks like a 6 year old child's. Is it a deliberate chosen style? Can you really draw, but you choose to interpret reality in this way?
Honestly, I have been wondering the same thing for a while. I love her color choices/schemes, but the art itself really looks like a kid painted it. I don’t get it, but I guess maybe is a certain kind of style. Idk