Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden

December 16, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY DECEMBER 12 ’13 Hello’ it’s Christy here. Today we were off to sketch ‘Wendy Whiteley’s Garden’, also known as the ‘Secret Garden’.  And the secret is out. This garden, snugly situated in Lavender Bay is  well worth visiting and our group were in for a special day of sketching. There were 3 of us on the ferry from Manly to Luna Park today, where we’d be meeting up with everyone. The ferry ride to the city always feels special […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Harbour action, Out & About Sketch Classes, Public Art, Sketching Holidays, Sketching in Sydney, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Erin Hill, Garden, Luna Park, Sketching, Sydney, Wendy Whiteley

Growing our own Salads

December 30, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

We’ve been feeling so proud of our mini market garden lately. This is a lovely vision to greet one on our balcony. It was all a bit of a try out really. There’s a small garden areas and a balcony around the townhouse which face the sun. Could we grow some veggies there instead of dried grass? We cleared the overgrown grasses and dug the soil. We stuck in some tomatoes to start and gave them a pyramid stand to […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketching, Sketching Gardens • Tags: Art as food, Garden, Line drawing with Watercolour, Market garden, Plant, Salad, Soil, Tomato

Sketching Australian Botanicals

October 9, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

It was a Sketchclub Meetup at The Botanical Gardens. Off I went quite early to grab a coffee and catch the ferry. As it turns out I had a few spare minutes to do a quick sketch of the view from the wharf. Might as well get the eye/hand coordination going before meeting the others. It was nice really. The Ferry men just waiting around to tie up the next ferry – my ferry. Quiet and peaceful on this early Saturday. […]

Categories: Art, Harbour action, Line & Watercolour, Observing the Light, Quick Sketches, Waterscapes • Tags: Australian Garden, Botanical garden, Ficus Macrophylla, Garden, Line drawing with Watercolour