Learn to Self-Publish Your Own Book – “My Sketching Journey”

February 11, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

A 5 week course in the Studio, with follow-up home support on self-publishing your sketches –  for beginners. We are using our sample 17cm square book by Toni, one of our sketchers and Blurb  book publisher,  as a guide for our own first book. Toni is one of the Tutors on this course. Have you what seems like hundreds of sketches in your sketch books? Would you like to create a beautiful personal collection of your favourite sketches? This is […]

Categories: Art, Book covers, Holiday & Summer Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Self Publishing your Sketches • Tags: Publishing your Sketches, Self Publishing

Yves Saint Laurent also Sketches

October 27, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

  Happened to be thumbing through the August 2013 Vogue Australia, ( no not in the doctor’s waiting room, or it would be the 1999 edition! ) and on the last page, called Voguepedia, was a b/w sketch which really took my eye. The fine print at the base of the page describes it thus: In 1969, British Vogue commissioned the enigmatic Yves Saint Laurent to share his likes and loves in his own personal ‘dream wall’ sketch. Almost 45 years […]

Categories: Art, Book covers, The little things in Life • Tags: Paris, Sketches, Vogue, Yves Saint Laurent

Red Roofs, Books & Swedish Fika

June 29, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY JUNE 27 ’13 “Oh not building blocks” was one sketcher’s comment on arrival. Yes but don’t think of them that way. They are red roof tops as you look from above. I agree you need a big imagination for that, but we’re warming up for our street sketching. In fact once we talk about the eye level bit, and which way the blocks are going away from you, it begins to make some sense. Next was sketching on James […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Book covers, Food Sketching, Local Foods, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Uncategorized • Tags: Coffee, Fika, Roof, Sketching, Sweden, Sydney

The Book that Started it all

March 30, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

My Mother was a great reader. In fact both my parents were. Every Saturday morning we’d get into the Austin and be driven to the local library. All of us would come home with a pile of books, plus Mum would get the latest magazines such as Home & Garden, Vogue and Dad would have Saturday Evening Post with Norman Rockwell on every cover and my brother would get Popular Mechanics. We loved it. Apart from alI the Enid Blyton […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Book covers, French sketches, Illustration, Line & Watercolour, Painting in France, Sketching in France • Tags: Book cover designs, Erin Hill Sketching, Rumer Godden, Sketching Holidays

Milo Stars in a Murder Mystery

March 24, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Well he does star on the front cover. Take a look. Frances Patton Statham is an American writer of ‘hard to put down’ mystery novels. I had a request early on in the writing of ‘Murder, al fresco’ to use the sketch of Milo the cat gazing across a lily pond, towards a French provincial cottage. Of course Milo gave his permission to be a star. He’s quite a popular cat nowadays. Off went his image and then one day […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Book covers • Tags: al fresco, Frances Patton Statham, Milo, Murder, Mystery novels