Pearl Farm and Ganesh Festival. Daku Resort Fiji

October 2, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Wednesday Sept 18. Can you believe it is slightly cloudy today. We skip yoga as we don’t like to be time pressured here, and need to be at JHunter Pearl depot very soon. There is a growing and successful young pearl business here in Fiji. The complete process is managed by professionally trained people and employs local as well. These are unique world wide because there are gorgeous luminous colours between the classic black and white pearls. The beds are […]

Categories: Art, Bright Colour, Dance and Movement, Sketching and Yoga Fiji, Travel Sketching in Fiji, Traveling & Sketching, Travelling with your Sketchbook • Tags: Fiji, Pearl, Savusavu, Sketch

Sketches – Australian Ballet rehearsal

November 15, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

I was delighted to accompany Grace, my 9 yr old great niece, to a production the Australian Ballet puts on for young people. The barre is set up on stage in the smaller of the 2 performance halls at the Sydney Opera House. At least 30 -40 male and female dancers are going through the same warmup routines they do every day. Only this time it’s on a stage, with a pianist playing in the wings. The ballet master is […]

Categories: Art, Ballet sketches, Dance and Movement, Quick Sketches • Tags: art, Australian Ballet, Ballet, Ballet master, Dance, Performing arts, Sydney Opera House