Travelling North.2.

December 31, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Leaving Taupo, our next destination is Havelock North. Everywhere you look it’s bursting with vineyards, all well known if you’re a wine buff. Cafes, galleries, restaurants and boutiques line the streets which span from the central roundabout. Time to find our B&B for the next 2 nights, and after driving seemingly a long way into the country, past the grazing sheep and cows, we find the bougainvillaea gates to Havelock House. This is downtime for us. To be up to […]

Categories: Art, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Colours of the night, Family & Friends, Gorgeous places to stay • Tags: artdeco, Coromandel Coast, Havelock North, Location Sketches, New Zealand, Taupo, Te Mata

Sketch Your Own Greeting Cards

November 28, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28 ’13 An exciting time of year for us. Making our own sketch Christmas/ Birthday/ Thank you/ Goodbye Greeting Cards. Somehow when you hear Carols coming out of the ceiling in lifts – you know it’s that time of year. We have some very high quality blank cards, which you do any sketch you like, straight on to the tiny space the window allows. We have a big collection of decorations to pick from, and you do as […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Family & Friends, Greeting Cards, Out & About Sketch Classes, Travel Sketching • Tags: Christmas, Gifts, Greeting card, Santa Claus, Sketch

Sunset Christmas Card Sketching

November 28, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 27 ’13 It was almost as though our end of term had come a week early during our sunset sketching this time! There was a celebratory feel in the air tonight with Erin leaving us some lovely wine and nibbles, seeing as we were not going out to a restaurant as usual. Knowing we would be well watered and fed, we settled in and spent the evening in the studio. Large glasses of white wine were poured, upbeat […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Evening Sketch Classs, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting Snow, Sketching at Sunset • Tags: card, Card stock, Christmas, Gifts, Holidays, Sketch

Pre Christmas Goings-On

December 23, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

Somehow once we hit December, it feels like it’s all over. I do love Christmas time, but it feels like everything has to be squeezed in before the big day. I have learned to take quiet moments and here are a few, in no particular order. Found these funny little chaps at the new Christmas Shop where I bought all the decos we used for Sketch Classes. I just love these fat little characters and I think they’ll take pride […]

Categories: Art, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Food Sketches, Great coffee, Sketching Locations • Tags: Christmas, Food, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketches

Indulge Your Senses

December 19, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

Well that’s what it demands I do. Cafe Chocolat it says ‘Indulge your senses’ right there on the box. So of course I already have. But before I popped another divine little creation into my waiting mouth – I stopped – I could see a sketch coming on, so announced to the waiting throng that no one could have another. Whew. Managed to arrange the shapes into a tree form and began to sketch furiously. Meantime ‘they’ are hovering over […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Creative food, Sketching Chocolat • Tags: Chocolate sketches, Christmas

My New Perfume

November 21, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

BALENCIAGA, PARIS It’s a pre Christmas perfume from someone very lovely. AAAaaaaaaaaaah. I couldn’t wait till Christmas and decided now was the moment. For some people it’s chocolate, for me it’s perfume. Has to be opened now! It’s quite interesting to try a new perfume when you’ve spent years finding and savouring the ones that mean so much to you. You feel it’ll have a lot to live up to to join that historical stable of time, place and memories. All […]

Categories: Balenciaga Paris Perfume, Christmas Gifts, Greeting card design, Perfume Review, Perfume Sketch • Tags: BALENCIAGA, Balenciaga Paris, Christmas, fragrance, Paris, Perfume