Balkanyi travelled widely, staying on the Côte d'Azur (Menton, La Ciotat, St Tropez), Italy (the Amalfi coast, Positano, Taormina) Corsica and Istanbul. In addition to her coloured etchings, she made gouaches, watercolours and little pencil sketches for her own delight.

Included here are a number of highly finished drawings, many of which which were exhibited in her lifetime when they were as saught after as her prints.