PORTA MAGICAE
DRAWING & PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY
Drawing – Painting – Photography – iPhoneography – Videography
Live and online classes and workshops
Instructional videos
WORKSHOPS FROM EVERYWHERE
As we travel in pursuit of the Porta Magicae, we engage with art schools and other organizations or private groups to create workshops on drawing, painting, photography, and videography. We teach virtual classes and workshops on Zoom, so you can join us wherever we go, and create instructional videos so you can learn at your own pace.
VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
Some of the students’ favorite workshops from the 2023-24 season:
Perspectives of Florence – Intermediate to Advanced Perspective (From Florence, Italy)
The Lights of the Andes – Landscape Pencil Drawing (From Barichara, Colombia)
Nocturnes of Cusco – Watercolor paintings (From Cusco, Peru)
Sketching the Figure in Watercolor – (From Barcelona, Spain)
Drawing the Animals of the Amazon & the Galápagos Islands – (From Cuenca, Ecuador)
Abstracting the Landscape with Oils – (From Tryon, NC. USA)
Drawing Animals with Pencil & Colored Pencils – (From Wellington, FL. USA)
LIVE WORKSHOPS
We closed our season with a series of Watercolor Pencil Workshops (SOLD-OUT) In collaboration with Easel Art Supply Center (Jupiter, FL) and The New Studio for the Visual Arts (Tequesta, FL)
Watercolor Pencil Techniques I – Held in collaboration with the Easel Art Supply Center
October 19, 2024 – Palm Beach, FL, USA – (SOLD-OUT)
Watercolor Pencil Techniques II – Held in collaboration with the The New Studio for the Visual Arts
November 2nd, 2024 – Tequesta, FL, USA
Children of the Rainforest – A presentation made to the Palm Beach Gardens Eisenhower Elementary School
November 2024 – Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
Forgotten (Ballestas Islands, Peru)
Watercolor pencils over Lanaquarelle paper
FREE WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
We love engaging with local organizations when we travel and are more than happy to visit your school, organization, or community group to prepare presentations, demonstrations, or workshops on art, conservation, and the environment. We will be posting the countries and cities we will be visiting—in pursuit of the Porta Magicae—on social media so you can contact us ahead of time to plan something fun for your group.
We also sketch around the cities we visit and love when fellow artists join us. Follow us on social media for times and locations, or subscribe to our mailing list now!
iPhoneography Workshop – Held in collaboration with the Polk County Public Libraries
February 2024 – Saluda, NC, USA
A Portrait of the Rainforest – A presentation made to the Artists of Palm Beach County organization
September 23, 2024 – West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Children of the Rainforest – A presentation made to the Palm Beach Gardens Eisenhower Elementary School
October 16, 2024 – Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA
Colors of Saluda (Saluda, NC. USA) – iPhone 15 Pro – Main Camera — 24 mm ƒ 1.78
INSTRUCTORS
We are professionals in our different design fields, but also have many years of experience teaching both children and adults – from elementary school to higher education
We create instructional videos for kids and adults alike – from beginners to advanced – and organize especial workshops for professionals
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Photograph: Iceland