On a quick four-day visit interstate to my hometown, I sketched a lot. Today’s page is all about a two-hour sketching catch-up with an art friend Anna from Shiny Happy Art. I have only known Anna for a few years, but we talk art for ages when we catch up. Our meeting place is the delicious ParisiAnn where we eat and sketch Ann’s amazing creations.

We have very different styles with our art. I sketch in my spare time with my watercolour pencils for fun and journalling. Anna is a full-time artist, art teacher and always has many creative projects on the go. But we both agree that anyone can sketch and anything is sketchable!

We chose our pastry treats from the counter display and have a great coffee.

Thankfully Anna took lots of photos along the way so I can share our creations in progress. The table started off tidy and then we took over.

Below is a video that shows the sweets off! I(I couldn’t figure out how to reduce it in size)

Below are my final pages.

At one stage Ann bought out a colourful cake for a client to collect (Andrew’s wife’s birthday). We had to sketch it quickly! it was not out long as the weather was so warm.

We gave ourselves 10 minutes. Then agreed on another two minutes at the end!

and then it was time to go…