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Arianna, the young owner of Plum Plum Creations, shows the whole printing process in her Art studio in Cannaregio district in Venice, just behind the Jewish Ghetto. You can attend a print session with Arianna and then you'll have the chance to buy...more

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Hours Today: 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

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Cannaregio 2681 | Fondamenta dei Ormesini, 30121 Venice, Italy

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Fantastic Experience

We had a fantastic time at our Etching lesson. Arianna is a fantastic teacher, very detailed, very skilled, and she takes you very thoroughly through the process. The lesson time means you have lots of time to print your work, trying different colours and techniques. This was…

Date of experience: August 2019

Venice captured beautifully

We happened upon this by chance and are so grateful we did. What an absolutely beautiful location and shop, and we both went home with a print. Arianna's work is exquisite, detailed, and a perfect keepsake of our amazing trip to Venice. We highly recommend everyone stop in and…

Date of experience: September 2019

Not for printing classes

My review is for those who wants to take classes in this studio. At first I’m really thankful for this experience because now I know the difference between amateurs and professionals. So if you are just a tourist wishing to spend some hours on really nice art activity - that’s…

Date of experience: March 2019

I'm answering this review just to explain a couple of things. Let's start with the prices. On the website you can see the prices per person for two-people-courses: if you fill the form and contact me, you will have all the information you need via email. That’s why it’s written “Contact me for further information” This is because I don’t want to confuse with different prices on the same page and also because the main purpose of the “courses” page is to get in touch with interested people and begin to establish a relationship with them, as well as give information. The prices that Anna indicated were provided to her via email, she could accept to attend my course at the prices I provided or not, the online offer is varied and I do not want to force anyone to attend my courses Concerning the result of the work: I have explained Anna many times the procedure to follow, and what should have resulted in the plate and then in the print. The subject she chose was an abstract work made by her that she looked at from her mobile phone. She has been working for 4 hours on the drawings and on the plate without realizing that she was working in reverse. I asked her many times if the result was what she expected to see (since it was an abstract work, I didn't know which was the correct way to look at it), considering that later it would have been turned upside down in the press, and she said she was satisfied and everything was ok. And in fact, when she printed it, she was very happy with the result. Only the following day she realized that the print was upside down and she wrote me a message. In the next lesson, she kept on to say that she really liked the result of her work, but I realize now that it wasn't true, considering her review. My work as a teacher in the studio consists of explaining the procedures and indicating the best choice for each person, following the people during the printing process. If someone does not understand what I am explaining, he can ask me to explain it again until he is sure of what he has to do. My job is not to do the work for the students, nor to control them all the time as if they were children. As for the quality of the prints: during the printing phase we saw that there were slight differences, and Anna expressed her approval for the fact that a handmade work was enhanced by the fact that each print was different from the other. She must have changed her mind now. The first print she thinks was ruined was just a test print, and we have made several test prints. This is the normal practice in printmaking: several test prints until you get the desired result. Probably Anna thought that the first test was the good one, since she is used to make only ever digital prints, but printmaking is something else: it is work, tests, corrections, until you get the right result. Working on a computer is something else, that’s a fact. As far as the attitude is concerned, we should open a separate chapter. The collaboration with Anna was immediately difficult. Beginning with the 26 (twenty-six) emails that I sent her to meet her continuous changes of idea - first she wanted to attend the 30 hour course, then the 16 hour course, then she asked for a change of dates, then another, then another one. So far no problem, I like to meet the needs of the people I work with- as long as this goodwill is there on both sides. The programme for the course that we had agreed upon together involved two very different engraving techniques. When it was time to think about the subject for the second technique, I rejected Anna's proposal. The role of a teacher is also to show the best way to a good result: a single line, as she proposed, was far too little. Probably Anna didn't like my suggestion to do more than what she expected to do. Before coming back for the third lesson she contacted me saying that she had to cancel the remaining half of the course because of problems she had at home. I came to meet her once again and gave her back part of what she had already paid me, even though the notice was so short. The problem that took an entire morning of chat discussions was the amount that she thought I should have given her back: she wanted to pay the price of the course for two people she had seen online and not what we had agreed via email for a single person. The reason for this review may be partly a rebound for not being able to be clever all the way through. I gave her back part of the money because I wanted to believe she really had problems. The truth came out when I saw one of her Instagram posts where she said she was not going home but she was going to attend another class in another city. I don't regret I gave her back part of what she paid, even if she didn't have any right to it because of the very short notice - Indeed, if I could give her back the entire amount and erase even the memory of her, I would gladly do so. The last point I want to talk about is this distinction between tourists and artists. I don't think I can say who is an artist and who’s not, but I see people who have never drawn put much more effort during my courses than those who consider themselves to be an “artist” and continually seek loopholes trying to draw as little as possible and skipping steps to make life easier Printmaking is a discipline that needs patience, flexibility and the ability to get involved, trying to push yourself beyond your limits. I realize that it's not for everyone. Certainly not for Anna.

Arianna's print workshops

I had a 4hr tutorial 1 to 1 with Marianna who helped me to produce a plexiglass etching plate and several prints from it - first time I had tried this - she was brilliantly helpful and encouraging and I'm amazed at my success. It was very reasonably priced and I thourouly…

Date of experience: March 2019

Search this shop out - not only a charming shop but a charming region of Venicce you may not visit otherwise!

I found out about this place when doing some internet searches before travel, and so glad I did. I arranged for us to have an etching /printing class at the back of the shop - it was great fun. we are not artists but it was completely possible to create 2 different pictures (…

Date of experience: February 2019

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