Sketchbook Art Workshop on the French Riviera, France with Lloyd Dangle
Join artist and illustrator Lloyd Dangle for 7 days on a sketchbook art workshop in The French Riviera.
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Overview
Join us for a six-night sketchbook journey along the French Riviera with teaching artist Lloyd Dangle, based in Antibes so you unpack only once. Each day opens with a walk along a new stretch of coastline, an open market, a remote island monastery, a pastel-hued medieval village, before settling into a sketching session along the way.
Lloyd’s approach pushes past the tidy, curated travel journal, the kind you’d see on Instagram, toward something textured, honest, and a little irreverent. Someone might build a comic strip out of sardine tin wrappers. Someone else might paint a mouthwatering watercolor of a pastry that didn’t survive the afternoon. There’s no wrong way to do it here. By the end of the week, your journal holds the Riviera’s highs, lows, and gelato mishaps in equal, messy measure.
The Creative Experience
This is a sketchbook program, worked on-location as the day unfolds, with prompts for timed freewriting and doodling alongside the drawing. No polished result is expected, if you can tear paper, scribble with a crayon, and use a glue stick, you’re ready. Sessions run about 1.5 to 2.5 hours, with Lloyd demonstrating in his own journal as he teaches the group. By the end, your journal is a textured, personal account of the week, not a tidy one.
This Vacation Includes
- Art Workshop Program: Daily art class with Lloyd Dangle
- Blue Walk Tour Program: Daily walks and excursions
- Hotel Accommodations: 6 nights at our 4 star hotel in Central Nice or Antibes, France
- Daily Breakfast: Full buffet breakfast daily
- Welcome Dinner
- 1 lunch
- Farewell Dinner
- Transfers: Regional Transportation Pass for all transfers per itinerary during tour
- Local market visits: Visit Cours Saleya (Nice), Marche Provencal (Antibes), Marche Forville (Cannes)
- Lerin Islands visit: Ferry trip to Lerins Island Saint-Honorat
- Absinthe Tasting: Visit absinthe museum with tasting
- Gelato!
- Welcome Aperitivo
- Orientation walks: Orientation walks of Nice, Antibes, Cannes, and Menton
What's Not Included
- Airfare
- Porterage of luggage
- Tips and gratuities
- Meals not mentioned
- Airport transfer
- Travel insurance
- Art Supplies
About YourArtist-Teacher
Lloyd Dangle
Before he published his first comic strip, Lloyd sketched unflattering caricatures at a bar in New York, work that got him a stint at the Village Voice. He’s carried a sketchbook since, for notes, rough ideas, and split-second caricatures of friends. That same instinct for translating the world into pictures later led him to help Fortune 50 companies explain their products with storyboards and visual thinking, facilitating strategy sessions with CEOs and launching visually rich consulting practices at tech companies.
“A journal is a safe place where you are free to experiment without worrying about getting things right,” he says. His classes are a judgment-free zone, evocative prompts and playful tools that mash up right-brain and left-brain thinking. Novelty is what drives him, the unusual, the strange, the funny, and foreign travel is where he finds it most. If you already like to draw, expect to walk away with more humor and irreverence in your work. If you’re new to it, expect a warm place to start.
Day by DayYour Itinerary
Programs are subject to change. Actual daily schedule may differ.
Day 1 · Arrival in Antibes
Arrive in Antibes and settle into the hotel before meeting the group for a warm welcome and orientation walk into the old town, ending with a taste of Niçoise specialties.
Day 2 · Nice's Cours Saleya Market
A train to Nice for the colorful Cours Saleya Market, with a lively sketching session among flowers, produce, and vendors. After lunch, a walk up to Castle Hill for sweeping views, then on to Garibaldi Square and back into the Old Town. The evening brings a festive welcome dinner.
Day 3 · Villefranche to Cap Ferrat
A short train ride to Villefranche-sur-Mer for a morning sketching class along its harbor. After lunch, a coastal walk around Cap Ferrat, following turquoise coves and rocky paths, before returning to Antibes in the late afternoon.
Day 4 · Cap Martin to Carnolès
A walk along the Cap Martin coastal path to Carnolès for a relaxed seaside lunch and sketching session with Lloyd. Afterward, choose your own adventure: continue on to Menton, hop over to Monte Carlo, or return to Antibes at your leisure.
Day 5 · A Picnic on Île Saint-Honorat
A morning at Cannes’s Marché Forville, gathering treats for a picnic, followed by a short ferry to Île Saint-Honorat. Lloyd teaches class beneath the oaks, surrounded by sea views and quiet paths, before the group retraces its steps back to Antibes.
Day 6 · Ramparts & Farewell in Antibes
A morning walk along the ramparts and through the historic center of Antibes, with a final sketching session before lunch. The evening brings a seaside farewell dinner to close out the week.
Day 7 · Departure
Breakfast, then depart at your leisure. The hotel will hold bags for later departures.
A Note on Pace
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The trip is based in Antibes, France. Nice Côte d’Azur Airport (NCE) is the most convenient airport for both arrival and departure.
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Traveled, Created, Loved It
“My daughter Ally and I just returned from the Italian Riviera Extreme Journaling workshop, and "extreme" barely covers it.”
Susan C“The trip was even better than I could've imagined. The Ligurian Coast is stunning - landscape after incredible landscape to take in, paint and draw.”
Rebecca H“This was my second Art Walk tour with this company, and I can highly recommend. If you are looking for small group, worry free travel that focuses on immersion in the small towns instead of big bus sightseeing, you will enjoy this.”
Margaret D“We had a wonderful time with Suzy and Jeannette, and in almost all ways, the trip was Outstanding. The hotels were great, the schedule was well organized, they were spot on with timing, and in general just great leaders.”
Thomas C“I just completed my second art walk with Jeannette, Suzy, and a group of lovely people! I'm already thinking about my next one... What a fantastic week of walks, sites, food, creating with Lloyd's guidance, and wonderful life experiences!”
Trena B