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New Sketch&French Starts Soon

March 28, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

We have just completed our Term 1 Five week course, and our next one starts on Monday April 29. One of the class members said she loved coming and it was so nice doing something for herself, not the business. Come join the fun. Our class on March19, was essentially on shopping in Paris. We always start with a freshly made tea or coffee just to get in the mood, as we begin our sketches. We had a fabulous silver, […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Eiffel Tower, Food Sketches, French sketches, Sketch & French Classes • Tags: Eiffel Tower, France, French language, Paris, Shopping, Sketching & Travel

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Double page Sketch Spread in French Living Magazine

December 11, 2012 by ErinHill 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

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My Perfume

My New Perfume

November 21, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

BALENCIAGA, PARIS It’s a pre Christmas perfume from someone very lovely. AAAaaaaaaaaaah. I couldn’t wait till Christmas and decided now was the moment. For some people it’s chocolate, for me it’s perfume. Has to be opened now! It’s quite interesting to try a new perfume when you’ve spent years finding and savouring the ones that mean so much to you. You feel it’ll have a lot to live up to to join that historical stable of time, place and memories. All […]

Categories: Balenciaga Paris Perfume, Christmas Gifts, Greeting card design, Perfume Review, Perfume Sketch • Tags: BALENCIAGA, Balenciaga Paris, Christmas, fragrance, Paris, Perfume

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From my Window

From my Window

September 13, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

New work. Watercolour and line. Completed today. I have a ‘thing’ for French windows. It’s that possibility of turning an ordinary view into something extraordinary. I love to have some personal things on the sill, and then take you to what’s beyond. It could be Sydney, Paris or a brick wall. But looking out through French windows makes it magic. ©ErinHill2012

Categories: Art, French windows, Line & Watercolour, Sketching in Paris • Tags: French Windows, Line drawing with Watercolour, Paris, Sketches, Sydney, Water views

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Les Parisiennes- Jours de France 1959

Kiraz- one of my favourite French Illustrators

June 10, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

I was very lucky to catch an exhibition in Paris in 2010 of Kiraz’s fabulous sketches and illustrations. I didn’t know his work even though I’d been in Advertising in the 70′s & 80′s when many illustrators worked in similar styles. I now realise where the influence would have come from. He’d gone to Paris in 1946 and began sketching for the newspapers of the time. His ‘Parisiennes’  were launched in 1959 in the newly launched ‘Jours de France’ and […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Illustration, Paris • Tags: art, France, Illustration, Jours de France, Paris, Parisienne

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The Salon. Laduree, Paris

Temples of Exquisite Food

April 19, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

Part of the pleasure of eating beautiful food, is the surrounds you are in. Atmosphere is a large part of setting of the scene. The colour. The decor.  The table setting. The sounds. The feeling. The mood . The greeting. The view. The aroma. The anticipation. The menu. People arriving. I like being at a table and silently observing what’s going on. Seeing people arrive. Being seated. Their response. How they relate. How they respond when their food arrives. It’s great being […]

Categories: Art, Food Sketches, Places of note, Restaurants I adore, Sketching • Tags: Art as food, Balmoral Beach, Location Sketches, Paris, watercolour, Watercolour pencil

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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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Our Apartment, 85 Beaumarchais

French Sketches from 2008

November 7, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I found this sketchbook tucked away, in which I’d done a few sketches while spending some time in Paris in 2008. At the time I was concentrating a lot on watercolour painting, and not much on sketching. It’s only in the last year or so I’ve turned towards sketching in such a big way. So when I saw these again, they brought back so many memories of the chilly April days I was exploring and looking for painting locations. I’m […]

Categories: Art, Sketching, Sketching in Paris, Traveling & Sketching • Tags: France, Location Sketches, Paris, Sketches

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2010 in review

January 2, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I thought these stats were most interesting, from the WordPress people. I write my art journal as a critique of my own art world, which helps me sort out where I’m going and how I’m progressing. The feedback keeps me motivated. It can be lonely out here sometimes. Thanks everyone. I don’t feel so alone now. The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog […]

Categories: Art appreciation, Thanks for dropping in • Tags: Eiffel Tower, Paris, Seine, WordPress.com

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