Traveling Through Watercolor: Japan
Apr 7 - 15 2025
Jun-Pierre Art Workshops
TRAVELING THROUGH WATERCOLOR : JAPAN
APRIL 7 - 15, 2025
Price: 3400€
Includes: 7 days tuition, 8 nights accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner prepared meals by a local chef(except on excursions), transport and museum costs on excursions
Participating Partner: €3000
Class size: 8 participants maximum
Painting Experience: All levels welcome
Language: English
Watercolor painting is an ideal medium for creating images when traveling to a beautiful, new places. After fifteen years of teaching watercolor workshops around Europe and the USA, I'm happy to announce my first watercolor workshop to be held in Japan in April, 2025.
The program will be based in the town of Fujigaoka, situated between Tokyo and Yokohama. Classes will range from watercolor technique and sketching to plein-air painting and will also include excursions to sites nearby, including Tokyo, Hakone, and Kamakura.
Painting during our excursions will include visits to the Tokyo National Museum, the Kamakura Daibutsu and Meiji Jingu shrine.
Students will learn the fundamentals of watercolor in a variety of setting ranging from the hyperactivity of downtown Shibuya to the peaceful calm of a domestic Japanese garden. With an emphasis on experiencing a place through painting and drawing, the workshop aims to be a record to capture the entirely unique and special experience as an introduction to Japan.
The Japan 2025 Workshop is currently full. If you would like to place your name on the Waiting List in case a space opens up, please click on the button below:
Typical Daily Schedule of Courses and Activites
Breakfast
9:00am – 12:00pm: Watercolor Class
Lunch
2:00 – 5:00pm: Class or Excursion on site
6:00 - 7:00pm: Evening Presentation
Dinner
Accommodation & Cuisine
The setting of the workshop is a 200 year old Samurai house surrounded by a garden and its pond. Classes will be held inside the house and in the garden, for a range of subjects. The fully renovated house has bedrooms in the traditional Japanese style with tatami where participants will stay two to a room.
Along with classes and painting excursions there will be shared group meals prepared by a local chef.
A complete materials list will be sent to participants prior to the workshop. Here is the basic list to have a sense of the supplies needed.
RECOMMENDED MATERIALS
Watercolor Paper (recommended 300g/140lb cold pressed)
Watercolor Paint (in tube or pan)
Paper towels
Palette (a white ceramic plate would do fine)
Pencil
Eraser
Optional
-Masking fluid,
-White gouache
-Ink
-Black permanent ink pen
Traveling through Watercolor: Japan
April 7 - 15, 2025
Registration: 3400€
Includes: Course instruction, lodging in a shared room, meals, all sightseeing fees and transport to excursions.
THE FEE DOESN’T INCLUDE: Flight Ticket and Transfers from and to the Airport, meals during the excursions, art materials.
Register now with a 600€ deposit, to be followed by two payments of 1400€
In signing up for the Traveling through Watercolor: Japan Workshop you have agreed to the Waiver of Liability Agreement
The deposit is non-refundable.
The Japan 2025 Workshop is currently full. If you would like to place your name on the Waiting List in case a space opens up, please click on the button below:
For cancellations received in writing 6 weeks before the scheduled workshop, a 1000 euro cancellation fee will be applied. Cancellations made after that date may result in the forfeiture of your registration fee if we're unable to fill your reserved seat with a standby applicant from the waiting list
€3000 Participating Partner fee
Includes: Course instruction, lodging in a shared room, meals, all sightseeing fees and transport to excursions.
THE FEE DOESN’T INCLUDE: Flight Ticket and Transfers from and to the Airport, meals during the excursions, art materials.
Register now with a 600€ deposit
To be followed by two payments of 1200€
In signing up for the Traveling through Watercolor: Japan Workshop you have agreed to the Waiver of Liability Agreement
For cancellations received in writing 6 weeks before the scheduled workshop, a 1000 euro cancellation fee will be applied. Cancellations made after that date may result in the forfeiture of your registration fee if we're unable to fill your reserved seat with a standby applicant from the waiting list
Testimonials
“Traveling through watercolors in Tuscany was such a good workshop. Not only the lessons but also a beautiful environment and the food was delicious. Jun-Pierre is a great teacher.
Enthusiastic and with a lot of knowledge. I learned a lot.”
-Jolanda
“This workshop had an amazing mix of instruction, individual support and art lectures. You are so knowledgeable and made every lesson/presentation very enjoyable. Thank you!”
-Lo
“Jun-Pierre is great!”
-Karin
"Jun-Pierre is masterful. It is rare to find an instructor who excels at both his craft as well as a strong passion to teach what he knows in such a motivating and comfortable way. He genuinely honors the varied interests and advances the varied skills levels of each participant. He presents interesting techniques and relevant information in a way that makes art accessible and motivating. His kindness and generosity put me at ease immediately. I am a more comfortable and confident artist because of him."
-Michelle
"Jun is a remarkable teacher, bringing to everything he teaches a breadth of knowledge that meets each student where they are. Whether you are a beginner or seasoned painter he is always able to challenge and encourage and teach to any question that emerges, taking the time to demonstrate technique, construction of an image and beautifully illustrate and underline the necessary skills needed for painting with watercolor and ink."
-Cassie
"Jun is not only an excellent artist, but also an insightful person and instructor. He can make the most out of different personalities from around the world, so they work full time in and outdoors, as if they just enjoy life through their brushstrokes, no matter how mature these strokes can be."
-Eleni https://www.facebook.com/eroufan
“I am still amazed by the idea that it is possible for a complete beginner like I was (I never painted nor drew before) to learn to get confident with the watercolour and drawing within such a short period.
I give this course my best recommendations.”
—Jona
" Jun's inspiring and motivating summer workshop which combines studio practice and painting trips to different places on such a beautiful island gave me a powerful head start in pursuing my studies in painting."
-Nausicaa
"Jun's a fabulous artist, a fabulous draftsman and a fabulous teacher (and a great guy too). He guided us step by step through the watercolor techniques. He teaches in a crips clear, well-structured, methodical way. His classes are packed with information, knowledge and inside tips, everything adjusted to the level and demands of the individual student, and at the same time they are great fun. Jun's always going the extra mile and super generous in sharing his skills and experience."
-Anna