Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. Sketching & Giving.

May 31, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY 10AM & 11.30AM CLASSES. MAY 29TH 2014. This week we were sketching to raise funds for Cancer Council’s ‘Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea’ I’d received the promotional material in the mail before leaving for overseas, and had put it  into our term schedule, so that I could be part of it on my return. Everyone would place a donation in the box provided and we’d be doing something for research as well as enjoying some sketching together.   We’d thought […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Creative food, Food Sketching, Out & About Sketch Classes, Travel Sketching • Tags: Art as food, Cake, Coffee, Food, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketches, Travel Sketching

SketchYourCake Japanese High Tea

May 28, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Azuma Japanese High Tea. Tuesday May 27th. We’d planned this months ago but only this week did we manage a suitable afternoon to go. The easiest way to get there was by ferry and a short walk up Philip St bringing you to the corner of Chifley Plaza. In through the very grand entrance, past enormous contemporary paintings we went. Up the escalator and round to the far end and we arrive at the very elegant Azuma Japanese Restaurant. One […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketching, Sketch & High Tea • Tags: Art as food, Cake, Coffee, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketching, Travel Sketching

A Little Yoga Sketching

July 31, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Last week after yoga we were at Bloom for coffee and a little something. Bloom is very new and we were very excited to see what had been a restaurant become a gorgeous cafe with designer rustic decor. Big plus, the coffee is great and so is the food. We were so enthusiastic, that those of us who sketch had said we should bring our sketchbooks this week and we’d sketch our food and whatever appealed. So there we were. […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketches, Sketching Cafes, Sketching People, Uncategorized • Tags: Coffee, Food, Sketching, Yoga

Red Roofs, Books & Swedish Fika

June 29, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY JUNE 27 ’13 “Oh not building blocks” was one sketcher’s comment on arrival. Yes but don’t think of them that way. They are red roof tops as you look from above. I agree you need a big imagination for that, but we’re warming up for our street sketching. In fact once we talk about the eye level bit, and which way the blocks are going away from you, it begins to make some sense. Next was sketching on James […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Book covers, Food Sketching, Local Foods, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Uncategorized • Tags: Coffee, Fika, Roof, Sketching, Sweden, Sydney

Breakfast at Foundry 53

June 28, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

One morning, I realised I had some time before I had to be anywhere. That’s pretty rare for me. It was early and I’d been out since 6am. Why not shout myself a treat and have breakfast in a cafe. Wow, I liked that idea. I was near Foundry 53, so pulled up and wandered in. Robbie took my order of fresh fruit and muesli, with a gorgeous flat white to start. Lots of other people in there too. It’s […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketching, Great coffee, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes • Tags: Breakfast, Coffee, Food, Fruit, Muesli, Sketching, Yoghurt

Next Sketch your Cake – March 25 ’14

June 7, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

If this gorgeous sketch doesn’t inspire you to take up your pens and sketchbook, and hurry to join our next “Sketch your Cake’ High Tea – then I’m amazed. I’m pleased to announce we’ve made a special arrangement with the management at Quarantine Station to hold our next High Tea in one of their beautifully restored function rooms. This will mean sketchers will have a unique experience on this wonderful headland of Sydney, with views all the way to the […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Art to enchant, Food Sketching, Quarantine Beach, Sketch & High Tea • Tags: Cake, Cake Sketching, Coffee, Food, Sketching, Sydney, Tea

Potted Plants and a Garden Cafe

May 18, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY MAY 16 ’13 This week is about the garden. Our setups are cacti and succulents, and potted blooms, one in an old rusty hanging basket. I seem to wanting more sketches from everyone these days and people are stepping up to the mark. At least 2 in the first hour to be completed. Down the hill we go ( it’s always down to start with! ) and straight ahead till we reach Short St Plaza. Now you wouldn’t look […]

Categories: Art, Flower Sketching, Food Sketches, Local Foods, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Sketching Gardens • Tags: Cactus, Coffee, Composition & Colour, Food, Manly, Sketching, Travel Sketching

Double page Sketch Spread in French Living Magazine

December 11, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

This is soooooooooo exciting. Claire Chaffey the editor of French Living magazine had asked me for a few of my French sketches – to scatter through the magazine. This is a BIG scatter – right across 2 pages. Cést Magnifique.  I’ve had wonderful response to these sketches, so I’ve looked at doing a print series. Prints now available.  Merci beaucoup. The Summer issue is out. It’s not snowing here in Australia, but might be in France – which is the […]

Categories: French Living Magazine, French sketches, Traveling & Sketching, Villages of France • Tags: Australia, Coffee, France, French, French Living, French people, Paris, Romance

Croissants & Jacarandas

November 17, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sketching this week. Nov 15,16,17. This week seems to have a French flavour to it.   Having had our very successful Sketch&French class on Tuesday somehow a little of that has carried on through the week…………… We had the white setting with croissant and gardenia on one table and the more contemporary blue setting with baguette on the other.  Our sketches of the 2 settings look very edible, and definitely catch the mood of the moment. While the Jacarandas are […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketches, French Living Magazine, Painting Techniques, Plein air painting, Sketching Classes, watercolour • Tags: Botanical garden, Coffee, Color, Jacaranda, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketch, Terraced house