Five days, a sketchbook, and a city worth drawing. No instruction, no skill required, nobody grading you.
Anyone can sign up, from any city. Groups run 4 to 24 people, small enough that everyone knows everyone by day two and big enough that the trip actually goes.
No network to join, no application, nobody you need to know first. Pick a trip and put down $99 to hold your place. Fully refundable for 30 days.
Materials are included and there is nobody teaching. The itinerary puts something worth drawing in front of you and then leaves you alone to draw it.
You come home with a stack of work and a group of people who watched you make every piece of it. That outlasts the kind of friendship that ends at baggage claim.
Europe. Asia. Africa. Thirty-something countries with a sketchbook in the bag every time. Back home we run free urban sketch meetups around Chicago, and strangers keep turning up to draw beside people they have never met.
Same format, three places. Two you fly to, one you can reach on a bus for thirty dollars.
Five days making art in the prettiest city on earth. Sketching in the parks, painting by the Seine, chasing color around the city. No instruction, no skill required. Just show up and make something.
See details →A long weekend on the Lake Michigan shore at peak fall color. Oils on an empty October beach, a hike out to a stretch of dune nobody else walks to, and sun prints made from what you pick up on the way. Three hours from Chicago, no flight, no passport.
See details →Same idea, louder city. Figure painting in Chapultepec, a color hunt through Coyoacán, sketchbooks out on a trajinera, and lucha libre at Arena México.
See details →Group travel already works. Nobody sells the version where you spend the week making something and fly home with it.
| EF Ultimate Break | Co-Signed | |
|---|---|---|
| Every day built around making something | ✗ | ✓ |
| Small group, 4 to 24 travelers | ✗ | ✓ |
| Materials provided, nothing to pack | ✗ | ✓ |
| Life model booked for figure drawing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Trip photographer included | ✗ | ✓ |
| Personalized video recap after the trip | ✗ | ✓ |
EF proved group travel is worth it. Co-Signed changes one thing: you spend the week making things instead of photographing them.
How to claim: Email us a photo of your EF trip confirmation or boarding pass. We'll apply $250 off your first Co-Signed trip, no questions asked.
Two trips, both open. $99 holds your spot and it's fully refundable for 30 days.
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