A Travel Sketchbook: Painting Paris & Normandy in Watercolour

18 MAY – 27 MAY 2017 Code: 21717

Tour Leaders David Henderson

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Well-known artist David Henderson introduces major art collections and gives you personal guidance as you sketch & paint in one of the world's greatest cities and the nearby picturesque countryside. Overview Tour Highlights This tour is limited to 15 participants

Join professional artist David Henderson on this 10-day tour to Paris and Normandy. David trained at London's Royal Academy Schools and has spent much of his career painting Europe's cities and landscapes. An experienced tour leader and teacher, he will provide tuition to participants of all levels of experience. Paint in and around Paris at locations which have been carefully selected for their atmosphere, character and compositional possibilities. Spend 3 days in Normandy visiting places where some of the most celebrated Impressionist pictures were painted: Giverny, Étretat, Le Havre and Honfleur. Spend an afternoon working alongside French landscape painting group 'Les Rats des Champs' in the dramatic setting of the town of Les Andelys. Meet artist Thierry Duval in his studio to view some of his superbly executed watercolours of Paris. Make a first-hand study of some of the world's greatest landscape paintings in the museums of Paris, including the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie. Visit the Musée d’art moderne André Malraux in Le Havre, which holds the largest French corpus of Impressionist artworks outside Paris. Visit the Museum of Montmartre, including the newly-opened wing situated in the recently renovated studio-apartment of Susanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo. While in Paris stay in a serviced 'studio' apartment in the very heart of the city, near the Île de la Cité. Enjoy fine cuisine in restaurants boasting some of Paris's most exciting interiors, from the Belle Époque opulence of Le Train Bleu to Les Ombres designed by Jean Nouvel and Le Frank at the Fondation Louis Vuitton designed by Frank Gehry.

Testimonials from 2015 participants, A Travel Sketchbook: Painting Paris in Watercolour.

David was amazing. He was not only skilled in the art of watercolour painting, but was a wealth of information on so many artists, galleries and the culture of Impressionist artists. Tour Participant, 2015 Travel with such a specific and practical focus is truly rewarding. Anne, 2015 This tour was great as an exploration into the art treasures of Paris and surrounds. A welcome alternative to the usual tourist hotspots! Pat, 2015

10 days: Painting Workshop in Paris & Normandy

Overnight Paris (3 nights) • Honfleur (2 nights) • Paris (4 nights)

About the Tour

...the genius of painting still hovers over Paris, and must be wooed on the banks of the Seine. Walter Sickert

Led by practising artist David Henderson, this tour combines visits to major art collections with a series of watercolour painting workshops in specially chosen sites in and around this most evocative of cities: from the quais of the Seine, to public squares and gardens. Artists of all levels of expertise and those who do not wish to paint are all very welcome. Museum visits will highlight landscape painting and the development of

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In the Louvre, we’ll discuss the landscape sketch and how this relatively modest art form achieved privileged status in the Romantic period, culminating in the sparkling lyricism of Corot. At the École des Beaux Arts we’ll explore the ideals of the academy as reflected in its outstanding collection. A visit to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Musée d’art moderne André Malraux in Le Havre will provide an opportunity to study techniques of artists who brought new ways of seeing to the world, including Manet, Cézanne and Degas. This will be complemented by a walking tour and painting session in Montmartre, an area steeped in association with Renoir, Van Gogh, and Modigliani. We'll also visit the studio of Thierry Duval, a French painter who creates highly realistic pictures using watercolours.

At Les Andelys, a riverside town nestling in the shadow of a craggy fortress, we paint alongside Parisian outdoor painting group ‘Les Rats des Champs’. In the Musée de l’Orangerie, we’ll focus on Claude Monet’s epic series of waterlilies in preparation for a visit to his celebrated garden at Giverny, conceived as a laboratory for research into the mysteries of light and colour.

During our excursion to Normandy we will set up our easels on the seaside promenade of Étretat. Monet painted the cliffs of Étretat in 1885; the spectacular limestone arches and islets off this charming little seaside resort were a popular subject for the Impressionists. We also spend a morning painting in Honfleur. This picturesque Norman port features in dozens of Impressionist paintings. Following the example of local painter Eugène Boudin, artists poured in from Paris to paint Honfleur's ever-changing light, often against the backdrop of the great wood and slate houses that surround the ancient harbour.

In Paris we stay in studio apartments at the Citadines Apart’Hotel Paris Saint-Germain-des-Prés, chosen for its ideal location on the Left Bank, opposite the Île de la Cité and a stone’s throw from La Sainte-Chapelle, Notre-Dame and the buzzing Saint-Michel quarter, with its maze of quaint little streets lined with restaurants, antique dealers and fashion boutiques. In Honfleur we spend 2 nights in a 3-star hotel, located within easy walking distance of the old port.

Introduction

This tour will integrate museum visits with a series of fully-tutored outdoor watercolour painting workshops in and around Paris. This most evocative of cities has one of the greatest concentrations of art museums to be found anywhere in the world. For all tour participants, this will present an opportunity to sample the wealth and diversity of Paris's visual culture; for those who wish to paint, a close study of a number of specific works will relate directly to questions of composition, technique, and the challenges specific to representing the landscape. Most of the painting sessions will take place near the city centre, while others will be held at places bearing some of Impressionism's best-known names, such as Montmartre and the Norman seaside towns of Étretat and Honfleur. These visits will not only place superb subject matter before us, but provide insights into the lives and works of the celebrated painters who set up their easels under the sparkling light of the Île de France and Normandy.

We shall consider the genre of landscape throughout the history of art in its broadest sense, whether a Post- Impressionist city view or the background to a Renaissance altarpiece. There will of necessity be an emphasis on French painting: by the end of the eighteenth century Paris was Western art's vital hub, remaining so until the Second World War. Its ascendancy corresponds with a period of social, political and technological upheaval, in which a series of epoch-making art movements emerged, many of them favouring direct observation of nature, realism and landscape. The best-known aspect of the art movement known as Impressionism is the practice of plein air painting. What is perhaps less known is that these painters were not the first to observe the fleeting effects of landscape first hand. The sketch made out-of-

A Travel Sketchbook: Painting Paris & Normandy in Watercolour April 2016 Page 3 doors was always a component of the preparatory work of the academic history painter. What most provoked contemporary audiences about Impressionism was not the fact that artists left their studios to record the appearance of nature, but that their swiftly executed landscapes were presented as works of art in their own right, rather than mere preliminary studies. The loose handling of paint and unexpected juxtapositions of colour were seen as a direct challenge to the academy's ideals of smooth finish and harmonious composition. The technical freedom of Impressionism provided subsequent generations with a point of even more radical departure from traditional notions of painting. While their influence is still with us today, it shall not be forgotten that art from all historical periods has the potential to provide today's painters with valuable lessons. Our tour will include visits to the working and exhibition spaces of some living French artists, to see how they regard the challenges of representational painting, the legacy of the past and the task of developing a personal visual language.

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Award-winning graduate of London’s Royal Academy Schools, full-time painter and part-time resident of Italy. He brings an artist’s eye and a profound knowledge of European art to his tours and his experience as an art tutor to his Paris painting workshop.

After initial studies in architecture in Brisbane, David's interest in the visual arts and their history was given new impetus when he made his first trip to Italy at the age of 20. Soon after, he enrolled in a course in painting at London's Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 1985. During his time in London, the Royal Academy awarded him a prize for painting, and he was twice selected for their annual summer exhibition. David has held many solo exhibitions of his work in Brisbane, Melbourne and London. He has exhibited in the Doug Moran Prize, Tattersalls and Rotary art exhibitions, and has been the recipient of several awards and commendations. He has also painted a number of commissioned portraits for private and institutional clients.

Until recently, David taught art part-time at various institutions, including the Queensland Art Gallery and the Brisbane Institute of Art. For many years, he lectured and ran courses in the history of art and design at the Queensland University of Technology. David now paints full-time and divides his year between Australia and Europe, spending much of his time in Italy. Since joining ASA in 1995, David has lectured on or led over 30 tours to a variety of destinations for ASA. He is an enthusiastic advocate of ASA's philosophy of travel, and believes that cultural tourism should not mean that cities, landscapes or objects become mere illustrations to a specialized text, but rather themselves be 'read' from a multiplicity of contexts and engaged with all the senses. He brings a trained artist's eye to an analysis of painting, sculpture and architecture and takes great pleasure in sharing his encounters with some of world culture's most exciting moments with others.

See YouTube short commentary "Painting in Venice' by David Henderson www.youtube.com See: Grand Tour: Artist Abroad brings home swag of sentimental works, Brisbane News August 26 – September 1 issue.

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A Travel Sketchbook: Painting Paris & Normandy in Watercolour April 2016 Page 5 Itinerary The following itinerary describes a range of sites which we plan to visit. Many are accessible to the public, but others require special permission which may only be confirmed closer to the tour's departure. The daily activities described in this itinerary may change or be rotated and/or modified in order to accommodate alterations in opening hours, flight schedules and confirmation of private visits and special exhibitions. Participants will receive a final itinerary together with their tour documents prior to departure. Breakfast daily, 3 lunches and 2 dinners are included in the program, indicated in the itinerary below where B =breakfast, L=lunch and D=evening meal.

3 nights - Citadines Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, Quai des Grands Augustins Day 1: Thursday 18 May 2017, Arrive Paris Welcome Meeting Orientation walk Church of Saint-Sulpice Shopping for materials at Magasin Sennelier

Travelers taking the ASA ‘designated’ flights are scheduled to arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport in the morning. Here you will be met by your private coach and transferred to the Citadines Saint-Germain-des- Prés Paris. Note: if you are not arriving on the ASA ‘designated’ flight you will be required to make your own way to the apart’hotel (official check-in time is 2.00pm), or you may wish to contact ASA to arrange a private transfer.

Our program begins after lunch with a welcome meeting followed by a brief orientation walk of our quarter. We cross the Boulevard St-Germain, one of the original Roman city’s main thoroughfares, and make our way to the church of Saint-Sulpice. Here we shall pause to admire Eugène Delacroix’s murals, completed in 1861. Delacroix was the leading protagonist of the Romantic school, and believed ardently in the primacy of colour. His understanding of colour and light proved influential for the innovations of the following

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We continue to Magasin Sennelier, a family-run business operating continuously since 1887 on the Quai Voltaire, where we shall purchase materials. Its founder, Gustave Sennelier, applied an extensive knowledge of chemistry to the development and production of fine artists’ materials. He also took the advice of such leading artists as Cézanne in the manufacture of colours. In 1948, in collaboration with Picasso, he developed and sold the first oil pastels. (Overnight Paris)

Day 2: Friday 19 May, Paris École des Beaux-Arts Painting in the Luxembourg Gardens Welcome dinner at Le Train Bleu

This morning features a guided visit to the museum of the École des Beaux-Arts. This distinguished institution began its life in 1648, when Cardinal Mazarin founded the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Many of the leading figures in French art trained there, including Ingres, Degas, Monet and Matisse. Often portrayed as a negative influence in the history of French art, the Academy provided a rigorous and comprehensive education. Without it, the formal innovations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would have been unthinkable. We shall discuss the stages of this training, along with the ideals and philosophies which informed it.

After lunch, we shall spend time painting in the nearby Luxembourg Gardens, laid out in the early 17th century by Marie de’ Medici in imitation of the villas she had known in Florence as a child. Here, the formal elements of classical balustrades and fountains are offset by the shifting patterns of light, shade, and figures in movement.

This evening we dine at Le Train Bleu, a restaurant inside the Gare de Lyon, whose sumptuous Belle Époque decoration was made to coincide with the Exhibition of 1900. The murals showing idealised views of travellers’ destinations are a reminder of the central importance of the railways in bringing the painters of the Impressionist movement to their landscape subjects. (Overnight Paris) BD

Day 3: Saturday 20 May, Paris Musée de l’Orangerie Painting in the Tuileries Gardens Thierry Duval’s Atelier

Today’s program will present us with the opportunity to view Claude Monet’s cycle of Waterlilies at the Orangerie Museum the day before visiting Giverny, the location where they were created. At the Orangerie, we shall examine works by major 19th and 20th century artists, giving special emphasis to Monet’s eight large-scale canvases. Ostensibly depicting waterlilies in the pond in his garden, the true subject of these paintings is a highly nuanced layering of vegetation, water, atmosphere, light, shadow and reflection. This layering of visual effects finds an equivalent in many levels of densely worked, dry paint, the colour of each brushstroke resonating within a web of marks to create not so much as a pictorial representation as an all- enveloping environment. Our painting session will be in the gardens of the Tuileries, laid out by the celebrated designer André Le Nôtre in 1664. This splendid, formal space was conceived as a garden for the palace of the Tuileries, a royal and imperial residence begun by Catherine de’ Medici in 1564 to designs by Philibert de l’Orme. The Tuileries palace was destroyed by fire in 1871, creating an unbroken vista along a central axis from the Louvre to the Arc de Triomphe. Statuary, mature trees and clipped hedges echo the

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After lunch at leisure, we shall visit the studio of Thierry Duval, one of Paris’s most accomplished contemporary landscape artists. A realist painter working in watercolour, Thierry will discuss with us some of the working methods behind his superbly realised effects. (Overnight Paris) B

2 nights - Honfleur Day 4: Sunday 21 May, Paris – Giverny – Les Andelys – Honfleur Monet’s Garden at Giverny Painting with ‘Les Rats des Champs’ at Les Andelys

Our morning program begins with a visit to Giverny, just outside Paris, where Monet created a spectacular garden, conceived as a place of inexhaustible, ever-changing subject matter. A work of art in its own right, the spatial ambiguities, optical subtleties and accents of saturated colour of this wonderful space provided the subject matter for much of his late work. We shall also visit the adjoining living area, containing Monet’s personal art collection, and studio, where he worked on the Waterlilies until his death in 1926.

Our location for this afternoon’s workshop is Les Andelys in Normandy. Lying on the banks of the Seine, this well-preserved village is dominated by the ruins of the 12th-century Chateau Gaillard, built by Richard the Lionheart. In Les Andelys we shall be working alongside members of a Paris-based organisation known as ‘Les Rats des Champs’, a loosely affiliated group of painters dedicated to working out of doors. The ‘Rats’ organise painting trips on a regular basis, creating work of great freshness and spontaneity, of the kind that can only result from direct observation of the subject. We shall benefit from their experience of painting this romantic site, placing ourselves to make the most of its pictorial and compositional possibilities. Nicholas Poussin, one of French art’s most influential figures was born in Les Andelys in 1594. Best known for his severely harmonious vision of the antique world, Poussin was also a pioneer of outdoor landscape sketching, making small studies for his more considered studio pictures. In the late afternoon we make our way to the old trading and fishing port of Honfleur, situated at the mouth of the Seine. (Overnight Honfleur) BL

Day 5: Monday 22 May, Honfleur – Étretat – Le Havre – Honfleur Painting session at Étretat Musée d’art moderne André Malraux (MuMa)

Today we visit two coastal destinations that played a vital role in 19th-century French art and literature. A ubiquitous motif in painting of the period that owes its popularity to the development of seaside recreation is the famous cliffs at Étretat, painted regularly by such artists as Monet. Our morning painting session will be on the seaside promenade of Étretat. We also explore the old village centre, before continuing along the famous Côte d’Albâtre and crossing the Seine estuary to Le Havre, whose town site and port were declared World Heritage in 2006.

Le Havre is where Monet, who lived here from the age of five, painted the view overlooking the port, giving the work a simple title – “Sunrise Impression”. The name was subsequently given to the whole movement. Here we visit the wonderful collection at the Musée André Malraux. Recently renovated by Laurent Baudoin, the building holds 300 Boudins, 6 Monets, 6 Renoirs and 7 Pissarros, constituting the largest French corpus of Impressionist paintings outside Paris. There are also Fauvist works by Van Dongen, Marquet, Camoin, Dufy and Friesz, and Cubist paintings by Vallotton, Sérusier and Bonnard. A light lunch may be obtained on

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4 nights - Citadines Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, Quai des Grands Augustins Day 6: Tuesday 23 May, Honfleur – Paris Painting session at the Vieux Bassin and Quai Ste-Catherine, Honfleur Lunch at La Ferme Saint Simeon Train #3124 Le Havre – Paris Saint Lazare 1555-1810hrs

We spend this morning painting at the colourful Vieux Bassin (old harbour) and Quai Ste-Catherine of Honfleur. In the 19th century Honfleur became an important holiday resort for Normans and especially Parisians. It was here, in 1824, that the great proto-Impressionist, Eugène Boudin (d. 1898), was born to a seafaring family. As a child, Boudin sailed on his father’s ship that plied the Norman coast and the Seine estuary. After a short period as owner of a stationery shop, Boudin began to paint images of Normandy’s coasts. At one point he travelled to the Netherlands where he studied the works of the great 17th century Dutch marine painters. Although he spent some time in Paris, Boudin found the city suffocating, and returned to paint along his beloved coastline. He was a chief exponent of plein air painting and was recognised by critics like Baudelaire and many young Impressionists as a master of fleeting effects, especially the atmospherics of Normandy’s huge, moody skies. Boudin ‘discovered’ the young Monet and encouraged him to paint landscapes, but never adopted the more revolutionary tenets of Impressionism.

La Ferme Saint Simeon overlooks the old harbour of Honfleur, with its picturesque slate-fronted houses and wooden church. The beautiful timber-framed Norman farmhouse, known for its panoramic estuary views, was run as an inn by the Toutain family during the 19th century. It has hosted painters including Monet, Courbet and Sisley, drawn here by its bucolic scenery, sweeping views over salt marshes out to the shimmering English Channel and, of course, its famous, ever-changing light. Boudin described it as ‘the most ravishing spot in the world’. Indeed, the scene is little changed since the Impressionist masters set up their easels here. We retrace their steps and lunch at what is now the Relais & Chateaux Hôtel La Ferme Saint Simeon. In the afternoon we transfer to Le Havre for our train back to Paris. (Overnight Paris) BL

Day 7: Wednesday 24 May, Paris Musée d’Orsay Lunch a lunch at the restaurant Les Ombres Painting on Quai de la Tournelle

The Musée d’Orsay’s collection provides a magnificent overview of the period from 1848 to 1914, one of the most innovative in all art history. This morning, we shall discuss a number of selected works, beginning with the Realist and Salon painters, whose political engagement found its most brilliant – and most subversive – expression in the works of Edouard Manet. New discoveries in science and technology were as important for Monet and Renoir as the exhilarating tempo of life on the boulevards; the availability of portable metal paint tubes and a more empirical understanding of light and colour were among the factors enabling these gifted painters to propose a radically new pictorial language. The broken touch and chromatic intensity of Impressionist facture, developed to represent the evanescent surface of things, were soon put to the service of even less tangible objectives. Cézanne’s slow accretion of vibrant marks sought the hidden structure of the rocks and pine trees of his native Provence; Van Gogh used the clear syntax of plein air handling and Japanese decoration to give voice to complex, intense emotions. These and many other painters will invite us to reflect on the difficulties, triumphs, and many possibilities of perceptual

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We lunch at the restaurant Les Ombres, situated on the musée du quai Branly’s terrace. The restaurant’s decor, furniture and crockery are signed Jean Nouvel, architect of the museum. The play of shadows from the Eiffel Tower throughout the restaurant is a tribute of the architect to the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose major work has become the universal symbol of Paris. A magical place, this domed restaurant offers an unforgettable view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower. Scattered with ponds, the terrace is accessible only to the restaurant’s patrons.

Our afternoon painting session will be on the Quai de la Tournelle. From here, the cathedral of Notre-Dame can be seen rising up like a great vessel from the waters of the Seine. (Overnight Paris) BL

Day 8: Thursday 25 May, Paris Musée du Louvre Museum of Montmartre Painting in Montmartre

This morning we examine selected works in the Louvre’s incomparable collection, by way of making a broad survey of landscape painting over the centuries. Landscape has always been an important aspect of Western painting, though it only really emerged as an independent genre at the beginning of the seventeenth century. While Italianate painters such as Claude Lorrain saw landscape as a setting for an epic vision of history or the Bible, the painters of Holland preferred a sober and truthful depiction of their native land. Canaletto and the eighteenth-century vedutisti show Europe’s great squares, palaces and churches, animated with deftly worked figures. In the nineteenth century, the ‘cult of nature’ and the emergence of patrons from the middle classes saw landscape take on a renewed importance. We shall discuss the ways in which composition, lighting, handling, and the like have been deployed to realise the vision of each artist.

We then head for Montmartre and visit some of the places whose memory has been preserved for us by their association with a number of legendary personalities, including Van Gogh’s apartment, Renoir’s Moulin de la Galette and Picasso’s Bateau Lavoir.

After lunch at leisure, we visit the Museum of Montmartre, one of the oldest mansions in this quarter, where artists such as Auguste Renoir, Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo lived. In the recently renovated and reopened studio-apartment Maurice Utrillo painted the portrait of his mother Suzanne Valadon, one of the first female painters of her generation. The museum is set within the Renoir Gardens, offering spectacular views of the vineyard, the Clos Montmartre, and sweeping views of the Paris cityscape. The 19th-century Demarne Hotel is also a new addition to the museum. Here lived Père Tanguy, a colour grinder who supplied painting material to avant-garde painters including Van Gogh. The Demarne Hotel accommodates the exhibition The Spirit of Montmartre and the Modern Art (1875-1910).

We spend the remain of the afternoon painting from the vantage point of the ‘Butte Montmartre’. The domes, spires and rooftops of Paris will be laid out before us, their cool greys set off by the pale warmth of the local building stone. Montmartre’s early Christian name, meaning ‘mountain of the martyr’ – in turn an adaptation of its previous Roman name, mons martis (Mount of Mars) – is a reminder of this quarter’s once distinct identity from Paris. Now part the city’s 18th arrondisement, it was until relatively recently a separate village on a hill some 5 kilometres to the north of the original settlement around the Seine. Lying outside the city’s tax barrier, it became a place where taverns selling cheap alcohol could be found, creating the conditions for a flourishing bohemian underworld. Even today, Montmartre retains something of the character of a village, offering glimpses of the vanished world of the Impressionists and early Modernists.

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Day 9: Friday 26 May, Paris Morning at leisure Painting on the Pont des Arts Farewell Evening meal at Le Frank restaurant, Fondation Louis Vuitton

After a morning at leisure, you may wish to join an optional painting session on the Pont des Arts, looking towards the bold silhouettes of the Île de la Cité and the Pont Neuf.

The Fondation Louis Vuitton for Creation has entrusted architect Frank Gehry (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Vitra Design Museum, New York 8 Spruce Street) to design a new contemporary art museum and cultural centre, set in the jardin d’Acclimatation, a children’s park in the bois de Boulogne. Frank Gehry has imagined the building inspired by the glass dome of the Grand Palais. Using innovative technological developments, the museum takes the shape of the sails of a boat vessel inflated by the wind. We discover this much anticipated new art gallery and conclude the tour with a farewell evening meal at Michelin-starred chef Jean-Louis Nomico’s new restaurant Le Frank, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. (Overnight Paris) BD

Day 10: Saturday 27 May, Depart Paris Airport transfer for participants departing on the ASA ‘designated’ flight

The tour ends today in Paris. Participants travelling on the ‘designated’ flight will transfer to the Charles de Gaulle Airport to take their flight home to Australia. If you wish to extend your stay at the Citadines Saint- Germain-des-Prés Paris, please contact ASA for further information.

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ASA has selected 3 and 4-star hotels that are themselves historical buildings and/or are located in historical centres. All hotels provide rooms with private facilities. Single rooms may be requested – and are subject to availability and payment of the single supplement. Further information on hotels will be provided in the ‘Tour Hotel List’ given to tour members prior to their departure.

Citadines Apart'Hotel Paris Saint-Germain-des-Prés (3 nights + 4 nights)

www2.citadines.com 53 ter, quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris. Chosen for its ideal location on the Left Bank, the Citadines Apart'Hotel Paris Saint-Germain-des- Prés, is located just opposite the Île de la Cité and a stone's throw from the Sainte-Chapelle, Notre- Dame and the buzzing Saint-Michel quarter with its maze of quaint little streets lined with restaurants, antique dealers and fashion boutiques. Accommodation is provided in 'studio' rooms, equipped with an en-suite bathroom (with hairdryer), a separate toilet, and a fully-equipped kitchen area complete with stove, microwave/grill and dishwasher and fridge. All rooms have TVs with Canal+ and satellite channels, safe deposit boxes and direct-line phones. Linen and towels are provided. Studio rooms are cleaned and linen and towels are changed once a week free of charge. Additional house-cleaning service is available on request and is charged according to your requirements. Other facilities include: 24-hour reception, breakfast room, launderette, gym, meeting room, business centre and high-speed internet access. Breakfast is not included in the tour price, however, close by, you will find one of the best markets in Paris, located in rue de Buci. This traditional French food market operates in the mornings Tuesdays to Saturdays (note: in France, most shops and stores are closed on Sundays) and offers a wonderful opportunity to experience the lively atmosphere of a Parisian market with its wide variety of stalls selling everything from seasonal fruits and vegetables to cheese, roasted chickens, freshly baked breads and pastry, and fresh flowers! Alternatively, a continental breakfast can be purchased from the breakfast area located in the main lobby.

Hôtel Best Western Le Cheval Blanc Honfleur (2 nights)

www.hotel-honfleur.com 2 Quai des Passagers, 14600 Honfleur Located at the fishing harbour. This 3-star hotel offers 34 renovated rooms with a view of the Port of Honfleur, equipped with en-suite bathroom, satellite TV and free wi-fi access.

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A Travel Sketchbook: Painting Paris & Normandy in Watercolour April 2016 Page 13 Tour Price & Inclusions AUD $5150.00 Land Content Only – Early-Bird Special: Book Before 30 June 2016

AUD $5350.00 Land Content Only

AUD $1295.00 Double room for Single Use Supplement

For competitive Economy, Business or First Class airfares and/or group airfares please contact ASA for further information.

Tour Price (Land Content Only) includes

Accommodation in twin-share 'studio' rooms with private facilities in the Citadines Apart'Hotel Paris Saint-Germain-des-Prés; twin-share rooms at the 3-star Best Western Le Cheval Blanc Breakfast daily, 2 lunches and 3 dinners indicated in the itinerary where B=breakfast, L=lunch and D=dinner Drinks at welcome and farewell meals. Other meals may not have drinks included Transportation by air-conditioned coach on Day 4 and Day 5 First class rail travel from Le Havre to Paris on Day 6 Arrival/Departure airport transfers - if travelling on the ASA 'designated' flights Porterage of one piece of luggage per person at the hotel (not at airports) Lecture and site-visit program Public transport in Paris as per the itinerary Entrance fees as per the itinerary Use of audio headsets during site visits Tips for the coach driver, local guides and restaurants for included meals.

Tour Price (Land Content Only) does not include

Airfare: Australia-Paris, Paris-Australia Arrival/Departure airport transfers if NOT travelling on the ASA 'designated' flights All artist supplies required for watercolour painting workshops - see 'Practical Information' section Personal spending money Luggage in excess of 20 kg (44 lbs) Travel insurance

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The number of flags is a guide to the degree of difficulty of ASA tours relative to each other (not to those of other tour companies). It is neither absolute nor literal. One flag is given to the least taxing tours, six to the most. Flags are allocated, above all, according to the amount of walking and standing each tour involves. Nevertheless all ASA tours require that participants have a good degree of fitness enabling 2-3 hours walking or 1-1.5 hours standing still on any given site visit or excursion. Many sites are accessed by climbing slopes or steps and have uneven terrain.

This 10-day tour involves:

Visiting major art collections combined with a series of watercolour painting workshops in and around Paris & Honfleur Extensive walking (up to 3km per day) and standing during museum and other site visits Using the Paris Métro system where participants will need to negotiate many short flights of stairs, and there is often no elevator or escalator available 1st class rail travel from Le Havre to Paris (note: a light overnight bag is recommended for our 3-day/2 night excursion to Normandy; your main luggage may be left in storage at the Citadines apartments in Paris) The use of audio headsets which amplify the voice of your guide (despite noisy surroundings). This technology also allows you to move freely during site visits without missing any information 2 accommodation changes.

It is important to remember that ASA programs are group tours, and slow walkers affect everyone in the group. As the group must move at the speed of the slowest member, the amount of time spent at a site may be reduced if group members cannot maintain a moderate walking pace. ASA tours should not present any problem for active people who can manage day-to-day walking and stair-climbing. However, if you have any doubts about your ability to manage on a program, please ask your ASA travel consultant whether

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Please note: it is a condition of travel that all participants agree to accept ASA's directions in relation to their suitability to participate in activities undertaken on the tour, and that ASA retains the sole discretion to direct a tour participant to refrain from a particular activity on part of the tour. For further information please refer to the ASA Reservation Application Form.

Practical Information

You are free to use the media and palette you feel most comfortable with. However, it should be remembered that the focus of the workshop sessions will be the medium of watercolour. One of the advantages of watercolour is that it is more portable than other media, such as oils or pastels. For this tour, it is recommended that participants work on their lap on a pad or alternatively, on a small board with a sheet of paper attached. A small stool will also be necessary, as the site may not have a convenient place to sit. You may bring an easel if you wish, though the size and weight of equipment should be taken into account, as it may have to be carried for extended periods.

To bring to the tour from home; these are the items it may not be possible to purchase on the first day:

light folding stool, small enough to fit in your suitcase and light enough to be carried around during the day water container (can be a ½ litre mineral water bottle) water cup (can be the bottom cut from a half litre mineral water bottle) bag or backpack to carry materials rag hat sunscreen waterproof jacket and/or umbrella

Shopping at Magasin Sennelier

There will be an expedition to Magasin Sennelier on day one to purchase fine quality materials, though of course you may bring as much as you like from home. Sable brushes, for example are quite expensive and you may not feel you need to purchase any more. You may also possess a serviceable palette, pencil case or watercolour box you would like to bring. Our shopping list will include:

artist's quality watercolour tubes or pans (a good basic palette is cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, viridian, cadmium lemon, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, alizarin crimson and a tube of white gouache) watercolour painting palette or watercolour box watercolour brushes, at least two, sizes 2-4, and 10-12 (sable and squirrel are best) paper or watercolour pad light drawing board and sheets of watercolour (optional) 2B pencils sharpener or cutting blade kneadable eraser pencil case steel nibbed pen, holder and drawing ink (optional)

General Travel Information

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Booking Conditions Make a Reservation

ASA RESERVATION APPLICATION FORM

Please complete the ASA RESERVATION APPLICATION and send it to Australians Studying Abroad together with your non-refundable deposit of AUD $500.00 per person payable to Australians Studying Abroad.

Passport Details

All participants must provide no later than 75 days prior to the commencement of the program a photocopy of the front page of their current passport.

Double (as single) Supplement

Payment of this supplement will ensure accommodation in a double room for single use throughout the tour. The number of rooms available for single use is extremely limited. People wishing to take this supplement are therefore advised to book well in advance.

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