Venice: Watercolor Painting Class at the Prisons Palace

From€29
1 hour
City of Venice, Italy

About this activity

Be an artist of one day, you will travel to the most romantic corners of Venice, where you will be taught how to best capture these picturesque landscapes.

Highlights

  • Be a painter for a day
  • Paint Venice and its most romantic corners
  • Discover the secrets of Venetian watercolors
  • Take a watercolor class with a Venetian artist

Full description

Be an artist of one day. Throughout your experience, you will be taught how to paint marvelous landscapes and most famous spots. The first step will be the study of the sketch, the essential starting point for a good painting. Later you will pass to colors, discovering how the light is a color as well and the wonderful effect it will have on your painting. Throughout your lesson, the teacher will be next to you to show and explain secrets that will help obtain the best pictorial effects such as water reflection, color shading between clouds and sky, or the details of lights and shadows using the great technique of watercolors.

Included / Excluded

  • All equipment
  • Live commentary
  • painting class
  • • Any other purchases not included in the experience

Meeting point

Start Location

Palazzo delle Prigioni, close to Doge Palace, Calle Seconda de la Fava, 4209, 30122 Venezia VE, Italy

Important information

Know before you book

  • • Unfortunately, this tour is not fully accessible for wheelchair users or people with walking disabilities
  • • Comfortable shoes and a hat are suggested
  • • This tour could be shared with guests not belonging to the same party

Know before you go

  • Please be at the meeting point 10 minutes before the starting time.
  • Please, enter the prisons palace and speak with the staff
  • Luggages or large bags are not allowed

Cancellation policy

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the activity starts

Up to 24 hours before the beginning of the activity: full refund Less than 24 hours before the beginning of the activity or no-show: no refund

Reviews

GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide traveler
Sep 2026
4.0

Activité intéressante mais j'aurais aimé plus de temps à Burano qui est très jolie. On a à peine eu le temps d'y jeter un coup d'oeil.

GetYourGuide
Star
Sep 2026
5.0

This was a fun and relaxing way to start our day in Venice! Our guide was skilled and walked us through the various steps of proper mask creation, letting us select our own style of mask and colors to suit. We got to sit in a shop full of gloriously decorated pieces, and the whole place was humming with inspiration. It was a small but cozy space. The gentleman who helped us was very kind and let us work at our own pace, giving us history and facts about Venice and it's culture surrounding masks (like Carnival) in-between rounds of painting and drying them. My only advice to others wanting to do this class is to give yourself a wide window of open time afterwards just in case you run over, it's easy to get swept away in the creative process, and forget that clocks exist. This class is great for all ages, creative people, and anyone who has always dreamed of having a Venician mask of their very own!

GetYourGuide
CHRISTINE
Sep 2026
1.0

Cela a duré 15 mn, dans des petits canaux où il n'y a rien, pas de ponts des soupirs. Nous avons protesté mais le gondoler a dit que ce n'est pas son problème. D'autres gens étaient furieux. Nous sommes allés à l'agence Venice tours mais c'était fermé. Si nous n'obtenons pas de remboursement, nous comptons porté plainte. C'est de l'arnaque