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Hotel Les Oeillets, of The Greengage Summer

The Book that Started it all

March 30, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

My Mother was a great reader. In fact both my parents were. Every Saturday morning we’d get into the Austin and be driven to the local library. All of us would come home with a pile of books, plus Mum would get the latest magazines such as Home & Garden, Vogue and Dad would have Saturday Evening Post with Norman Rockwell on every cover and my brother would get Popular Mechanics. We loved it. Apart from alI the Enid Blyton […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Book covers, French sketches, Illustration, Line & Watercolour, Painting in France, Sketching in France • Tags: Book cover designs, Erin Hill Sketching, Rumer Godden, Sketching Holidays

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Les Parisiennes- Jours de France 1959

Kiraz- one of my favourite French Illustrators

June 10, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

I was very lucky to catch an exhibition in Paris in 2010 of Kiraz’s fabulous sketches and illustrations. I didn’t know his work even though I’d been in Advertising in the 70’s & 80’s when many illustrators worked in similar styles. I now realise where the influence would have come from. He’d gone to Paris in 1946 and began sketching for the newspapers of the time. His ‘Parisiennes’  were launched in 1959 in the newly launched ‘Jours de France’ and […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Illustration, Paris • Tags: art, France, Illustration, Jours de France, Paris, Parisienne

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Name in a Frame

Frame the Baby’s Name

July 20, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

Isn’t this just the cutest! We have a new baby in our family. A dear little Rugby player. Or a poet. Or both. What gift could we give? More teddy bears (koalas,) more little fashion outfits, some classic beatrix Potter, some gold ingots?  Then I remembered these wonderful illustrations done by one of New Zealand’s best illustrators. Onto the website and flipped through the choices which all looked so good, and you get to see the name as a sample […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Illustration, Sketches, The little things in Life • Tags: Composition & Colour, Illustrated Baby Names, Line drawing with Watercolour

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