Day 1: Arrival to Budapest, welcome dinner

Day 2: Sketching in Budapest

• Morning: sketching walin the medieval Castle of Buda. Workshop with pencils and markers, learning techniques for finding the starting points to a sketch, creating the best composition, simplifying a complex view.

• Afternoon: travel to Lake Balaton, settle in at our accommodation.

• Evening: Introduction evening with a glass of local wine: telling each other about ourselves through our sketches and stories. Orientation talk on Walking and Sketching, the concept of the Wanderlust, the program of the next days.

Day 3-4-5: Morning Balaton sketch walk. Open afternoon with program proposals. Evening dinner together to share the day’s sketches and stories.

Day 6:

• Morning: breakfast and closing, transport back to Budapest

• Optional Balaton sketching walk for those still around.

Each day will contain a morning session, when we will be learning a new concept/approach to walking and sketching - and then apply it in a sketchwalk, together.

Afternoons are open with a number of different routes and programs offered. Participants are free to decide the direction of their own wandering, one by one or in small groups - and practice the techniques/approaches learnt that day, or sketch their own way, or have a rest.

We will close the days with sharing the day’s sketches and experiences, dinner and rest.

The main technique I will teach on the Wanderlust sketching tour is cianotype. Cianotype is an ancient photographical technique which creates magical blue prints using only sunlight. This technique offers a wide range of possibilities to incorporate shapes, natural objects found during our wanderings. It is fun, and it will add a surprising, adventitious bit to your art process. We will explore how this technique works, how it can be incorporated into sketching, and experiment with different ways of applying it.

Depending on time and interest of the group, other illustrative techniques may also be tasted during the sketching tour.