Guests arrive independently to the villa outside Siena. Most fly into Florence and take a train or private driver into Siena — transfers are easy and the journey is part of the arrival.

• Check-in and settle in — find your room, explore the villa and gardens at your own pace.
• Welcome aperitivo — wine, local bites, and the first gathering of the group.
• Celebration dinner — a candlelit Tuscan meal together to mark the beginning of the week.

A morning in the garden and at the tasting table — gathering seasonal ingredients, tasting Tuscan olive oils, and drawing what you find.

• Garden walk and foraging — guided tasting of fresh herbs, vegetables, and seasonal ingredients from the villa grounds.
• Olive oil tasting atelier — tasting Tuscan oils from different estates; drawing the color and texture of oil on paper.
• Still life session — arranging and drawing a composition from the morning's gathered ingredients.
• Group lunch, then free afternoon — sketch in the gardens, rest, or explore the surrounding landscape.

Making pasta by hand is one of the oldest and most meditative art forms in the world. Today, the kitchen is the studio.

• Pasta-making cooking class — hands-on with the villa's kitchen team: the dough, the rolling, the shapes, the sauce.
• Cooking as drawing — a parallel session drawing the tools, flour, shapes, and process.
• We eat what we made — the class ends at the table, sharing the meal together.
• Free afternoon — rest, draw, journal, or take a short excursion into the surrounding hills.

A sensory morning of wine tasting and mark-making — using red wine, olive oil, and coffee as pigments to create still lifes and washes on paper.

• Wine tasting atelier — guided tasting of Tuscan wines focused on color, texture, and aroma as creative vocabulary.
• Painting and drawing with wine — using wine, olive oil, and coffee as pigments for still lifes and abstract studies.
• Color mapping — translating the flavor and feeling of wine into color palettes and mark-making.
• Group lunch, then free afternoon — sketching at leisure; optional walk through the estate.

A full day in Siena — the morning market, the Piazza del Campo, artisan studios, and the slow pleasure of wandering an ancient city with a sketchbook.

• Morning market in Siena — exploring the daily market for ingredients, colors, and textures; sketching in the market.
• The Piazza del Campo — time in one of the world's great public squares; drawing, observing, absorbing the light.
• Optional artisan visit — stained glass studio, ceramics, or silversmithing depending on availability.
• Gelato, espresso, and slow wandering — the afternoon is yours; the city is a studio.

A morning with a local artisan — making a small object for the table, then drawing it as a still life.

• Craft workshop atelier — private session with a local artisan: ceramics, bookbinding, or stained glass (subject to availability).
• Making for the table — each guest creates a small object: a bowl, a handmade book, a small vessel.
• Still life with the day's work — drawing your own object as a still life study.
• Lunch, then free afternoon — thermal springs at Bagni di Petriolo or a walk to the Abbazia di San Galgano.

The final full day: a Tuscan feast cooked together, a still life drawn around the table before the meal, and a closing circle.

• Tuscan feast cooking class — a full Tuscan meal prepared together, from antipasto to dolce.
• Drawing the feast — a guided still life session arranged around the prepared table, before the meal begins.
• Table design — guests create place cards, vegetable sculptures, or floral arrangements for the final dinner.
• The final table — the meal we cooked, at the table we set, in the villa we called home.
• Closing circle — sharing what opened, shifted, or became visible over the eight days.

A slow breakfast. The last espresso. Final sketches. Transfers depart through the morning at your own rhythm.

• Slow breakfast at the villa — the last shared morning table.
• Final journaling or sketching — quiet time before the day begins.
• Farewells and departure — onward to Siena, Florence, Rome, or home.