Round & Oblong shapes, Big Gates & Pizza

September 7, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY SEPT 5 ’13 What a glorious day for me to return to the Studio. Today I felt a little perspective should be back on board after all the cake- ish things we’ve sketched recently. Round and box shapes. Watch the way boxes become narrower as they go away. Notice that round things have no pointed corners! Everybody did well, and although a couple of brain freezes occurred, but were back on track seeing well again in a second. Through […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching, Sketching People, Travel Sketching, Traveling & Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Food, Pizza, Sketching, Wine

Bienvenue au d’ Alibert D’Hotel

September 21, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

I am supposed be to thinking ‘Balmoral’, now that the exhibition is over. But my head is in South of France. All because I’m back there next September – and planning to take a few artists with me. Because it will essentially  be a sketching trip about the food and wine of the Minervois (Languedoc) – with some history thrown in – I’m thinking about the night we will dine at one of my favourite restaurants around the area, Hotel D’Alibert. […]

Categories: Art, Food & Wine, Line & Watercolour, Sketching in France, Villages of France • Tags: Food, France, Languedoc, Languedoc-Roussillon, Location Sketches, Sketches, Trausse, Wine