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Christmas Eve Moments

Christmas Eve Moments

December 25, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

The Sun is out. Perhaps beginning to go down. It is 6.22pm. What a difference the sunshine makes. This is the day before Christmas. People go at dawn to the Seafood market, as fish and Seafood is one of our revered Christmas Day meals. Of course we still follow tradition and have Turkey, ham or Roast Pork. I know all will be on offer at our Family lunch tomorrow. We even have plum pudding with all the trimmings. Usually it’s […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Christmas Art, Family & Friends, Sketching • Tags: Christmas, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Location Sketches, Sketches

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Warm up sketch at Bacino bar

Thursday. Rain…. but no what’s this!

December 9, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

It was absolutely pouring when I left home – dressed in my raincoat, hoping my hair wouldn’t go curly. Got to Bacino bar where we’d meet up for our Sketch class. They have an outdoor area outside the doors to the cafe, with proper French tables and woven chairs. Very chic! and because that’s where we wanted to sit to get the best sketches, it meant getting a wet bottom if you couldn’t get the seat dry enough. No worries […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Great coffee, Sketching, Sketching Classes • Tags: Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Sketches

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20 Rue Breguet

A Paris Sketch from 2008

December 5, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

Another of some sketches I’d done when staying with Joanna in Paris. We stayed in this tiny 7th floor studio before moving to Beaumarchais the following week, and where we’d be for a month or so. I wasn’t paying much attention to sketching at this time, and did only a few – which I now regret. Instead I concentrated on watercolours which I’d work on most days. I now see sketching as being a most wonderful way to express myself […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, French windows, Paris, Sketches, Sketching in France • Tags: France, Location Sketches, Marais, Paris, Sketches

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