FOODIES, ARTISTS, LOVERS OF PARIS!
Are you ready for a creative adventure unlike anything you've ever experienced?
An Illustrated Feast combines all the good things in life: food, art, Paris, and slowing down with a group of fun, vibrant, creative friends.
Cynthia Morris has curated a delectable experience designed to help you see, savor, taste and paint your way through Paris.
OUr Illustrated Days
Our focus is simple and joyful: line, color, texture, shape, flavor and fun.
You’ll spend your days out and about in Paris—drawing and painting on location, guided but unpressured, alongside playful, creatively engaged people.
We’ll work primarily in watercolor (you’re welcome to use your preferred medium), practicing in sketchbooks and creating 12 finished pieces you can turn into cards, calendars, bookmarks, patterns, or framed art.
By the end of five days, you’ll have a cohesive body of work that’s truly yours—a Paris food mini-collection you’ll be proud to bring home.
Where We’ll Work
We’ll meet in cafés, markets, gardens, and everyday food spaces, including:
- Iconic pastry shops
- Outdoor food markets
- Luxembourg & Tuileries Gardens
- Lavrut Art Supplies
- …and more
There’s space for your own culinary explorations, balanced with guided group time.
How you'll make art
- Painting with watercolors, coffee, wine, and salt
- Capturing texture, color, and flavor in watercolor
- Copying iconic lettering to evoke Paris
- Building a personal Paris food lexicon
- Adding simple word sketches to complete your pieces
By the end of our week, you will have learned how to paint in your style that expresses your joie de vivre
Get ready for the time of your life
~ What To Expect ~
This is a group experience that you customize. You choose your lodging and means of getting around the city - bike, metro, walking, or taxi - yet you are part of a group with a shared mission: have fun filling our sketchbooks.
Every day, we’ll meet for workshops to study ways to paint and write about Paris food culture.
Alongside a group of new creative friends, you will have a ton of fun learning and exploring.
You’ll also get to design your own Paris experiences. Spend the afternoon at a museum, visiting galleries, or as a flaneur. You will set your pace and fill your pages with your Paris adventures.
Details
What's included:
Daily workshops
Five days of instruction in English with artist, author, and coach Cynthia Morris
Group food adventures
Interactive food experiences (cheese tasting, open-air market, favorite art supply store)
Shared online group
Online salon access starting June 1. Private space where we can connect and share our Paris foodie bucket list and more.
Welcome gathering
Welcome apéritif in a Paris cafe
Bonus treats in the mail!
A special Paris food book (sent upon registration)
Art supplies
You'll get a supply list ahead of time plus a few curated art materials in Paris
Afternoon atelier and idea potlucks
Casual art dates / idea potlucks in Paris gardens and cafés.
Closing celebration
Final 'show and share' to celebrate our sketch adventures.
BONUS!
- Two months of post-workshop online salon support and accountablity
- Online show & share in October to celebrate your finished work
What's not included:
- Lodging
- Airfare
- Transportation to and around Paris
- Meals
- Excursions on your own
- Your sketchbook and art supplies
- Your personal foodie scavenger hunt
Accessibility & Dietary Notes
- Gentle pace with moderate walking and plenty of sitting
- Sketching in public, outdoor spaces
- Food tastings optional—sketching always welcome
- Some tastings may not offer substitutions
- Meals are on your own to suit your needs
Questions? Reach out—I’m happy to help you decide if this workshop is a good fit.
Your Host, Cynthia Morris
Cynthia Morris has been leading creativity workshops in Paris for over 20 years.
A lifelong foodie, she has worked as a personal chef, vegetarian cooking instructor, and hot-air-balloon chef in France and Switzerland. She loves shopping for food, cooking meals, and sharing culinary adventures—while helping travelers feel more creative, confident, and joyful.
Her suitcases home from Paris are famously filled with fleur de sel, mustard, and bags of gluten-free flour.
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An Illustrated Feast is about enjoying food culture, making art for the sheer pleasure of it, and sharing the experience with people who get it.
You’ll spend five days out in Paris—drawing, painting, laughing, and savoring—then return home with a finished body of work and the deep satisfaction of having made something truly yours.
Paris · August 25–29, 2026
Space limited to 8 bon vivants
People Love being in Paris with Cynthia
"What a wonderful, splendid, extraordinary week and workshop. Beautifully organized, with time off and on. So much creativity and generosity of spirit. Un grand merci!" Faith McLellan
"Low-key but impactful class sessions and Paris as a supporting character make for a wonderful combination of learning and creating." Molly Nunnelly
"So much thought went into this workshop, and it showed. From the small touches to the fun surprises at the end, clearly, you cared to make this a special, memorable experience for all of us. GOOD JOB!!" Donna Erickson