Art Travel with the BFAC

October 22nd - 29th, 2024 - Costa brava

Painting the Spanish Mountains and Sea

with Damon Lehrer, founder of the Boston Figurative Art Center 

This incredible Travel Opportunity is one you will never forget. Whether you are going alone, with your partner, or with friends, this trip has something for everyone.

barcelona, spain

highlights

  • 5 days of Intensive painting sessions in unique locations

  • Tasting local Spanish and Catalan cuisine

  • Hands on instruction from our founder, damon lehrer

  • winery and tapas tours

  • sunset boat cruise

  • Sagrada familia, empuries ruins, and dali museum tour

  • 4 star hotels

Day 1:

¡Bienvenidos a Barcelona! Upon your arrival, we'll transfer you to sitges, an amazing beach town where we will start our journey with a couple of painting and relaxing cultural days. You will have time to overcome your jet lag with a nap, or walk around with amazing views. We will attend a tapas tour that evening and get to know our fellow artists and travelers.

Day 2:

Buenos días and welcome to our first painting journey. After breakfast at the hotel, we will have a painting session guided by Damon Lehrer. Partners or those interested can take the day to explore barcelona! The afternoon consists of more painting in this beautiful landscape with a group dinner back at the hotel.

day 3:

ANother day of painting with an extra treat - our luxury buses will bring the group to a winery tour. Wine tastings, landscape painting, and fun will fill this afternoon with a group dinner at the end of the day.

day 4:

We will wake up and get on the road to explore Girona, known for its medieval monuments, history, and natural beauty. After visiting the dali museum in the afternoon, we will reach costa brava by the evening.

day 5

We wake up in empuries and explore the gorgeous ruins in walking distance of our hotel. The day will be spent painting and exploring these ruins, as well as the coastal beach town we call home for the evening.

day 6

another full day of painting ensues with damon lehrer providing demos and instruction. We will end the daylight with a sunset boat cruise or other activity.



day 7:

Hola Barcelona! We will take the train together into Barcelona. We will have free time to spend the day visiting Sagrada Familia, Paseo de Gracia and other monuments and places of interest. We will spend the last evening together at a farewell dinner.


day 8:

Bye Bye painters! You will be transferred to the airport to make sure you get to your flight on time.

Included

(shared room : $2995.00 per person)

(Private room : $3495.00 per person)

Members $150 off

  • Accommodation 4 Star Hotel (or equivalent) each night of trip

  • Luxury coach buses

  • shuttle transportation

  • Most meals

    Painting instruction and jocular comments from damon lehrer

  • ***Airfare not included***

  • Tapas Tour

  • Winery tour

  • museum admission-

  • sunset activities

Deposits are refundable . For more information contact draw@bostonfac.com

For booking purposes, please plan to arrive for the main part of the trip before noon on october 22nd, and depart after 3:00pm october 29th.

day 1 is october 22nd.

For Madrid pre-week extension booking purposes, please arrive at Madrid Airport on october 20th in the morning (leaving the states october 19th).

For Barcelona extension, please book flights in the afternoon/evening of october 31st