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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

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Travelling North

December 26, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

The flight landed in Wellington in New Zealand, and with a freshly picked up car, the three of us head to Palmerston North. The wedding day dawns. Brilliant blue skies and sunshine. Just what they’d hoped for. The wedding is at 10am in a park, in a spot specially picked out, and rows of chairs placed for the guests to be rested off their stilettos. The skies open. Down down down comes the rain. A sea of umbrellas. Soggy ground […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Food Sketching, Great coffee, Sketch Workshops, Sketching Holidays, Sketching in New Zealand, Travel Sketching • Tags: Lake Taupo NZ, Lord of the Rings, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Palmerston North, Sketches, Taupo, Te Horo, Wellington

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Sketching Workshop Taupo New Zealand

December 14, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11 ’13 Taupo is an enormous and very deep lake, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. Surrounded by little settlements and a main town centre, one of the big attractions is the mountains for skiing and trout fishing. When you arrive from the south, it tempts and taunts you as the road dips down to the cold blue water lapping on pumice shores, then takes you back through the forest before leading you back […]

Categories: Art, Boats, Line & Watercolour, Painting holidays, Sketch Workshops, Sketching Cafes, Sketching in New Zealand, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Color, New Zealand, Sketch, Sketching, Taupo

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