Sketching Open Day. Sunday July 6th.

June 30, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Come and find out how sketching could be your next addiction! It happens all the time! People who are quite certain that they have no creative ability, discover that ‘YES THEY CAN’ sketch. SUNDAY JULY 6TH. 11AM – 3PM. IN THE STUDIO.    97 SYDNEY RD, MANLY. We will tell you about Travel Sketching. That’s what we teach. That quick observation, a few lines and you have your impression. Plus you’ll learn to add a dash of colour. We’ll show […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Out & About Sketch Classes, Travel Sketching • Tags: Sketching Open Day, Travel Sketching

Sketching Boston, with a dash of NYC.

June 25, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

I’m surprised by how much water and shoreline I can see from the plane as we make our landing. Boston. What will I think. How will it be. Well, it’ll take a few days of images and impressions to float by me before I’ll begin to know. Spring has certainly sprung. I know it snowed recently so I’m surprised that it’s so hot and blue. Clear Cobalt. 27degrees. New green shoots on the sycamore trees are a smudge of Sap […]

Categories: American Museums, Art, Art exhibitions, Family & Friends, Sketching in the USA, Travel Sketching, Traveling & Sketching • Tags: Colours of the USA, Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Travel Sketching

4 Painter/Sketcher Girls in the South of France

June 4, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

May 2 – May 10 2014 We are 3 painter/sketchers who’ve been meeting in wonderful locations round the world for years, and immersing ourselves in what we love doing most. Painting and sketching. We invite a 4th friend on most of our trips. It all started in The Greek Isles. Next came Tuscany.  After that the Rhone Valley in France and then Tuscany again, and all a few years apart. So this year we would come from our homes in […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, French sketches, My Artist Friends, Painting holidays, Painting in France, Sketching in France, Travel Sketching, Villages of France • Tags: Painting Friends, Sketch Holidays, Sketching in South of France, Trausse Minervois

Getaway to the South Coast. March ’14

March 19, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our Getaways are 3 day/2night Sketching Holidays. Usually just a few hours from Sydney. DAY 1. SUNDAY MARCH 16TH. We’ve been getting excited as the time drew near to go south of Sydney on our South Coast Getaway. We would all meet at 10am about 2 hrs drive South of Sydney at Berkeleow’s Bookbarn. It’s been there for years. An early Dutch family lived on a Southern Highlands farm and just happened to be passionate about collecting books. The barn […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Landscapes, Line & Watercolour, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting holidays, Sketch Getaways, Sketching techniques, Travel Sketching • Tags: Australia, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Sketch Getaways, Travel Sketching

Travelling North.2.

December 31, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Leaving Taupo, our next destination is Havelock North. Everywhere you look it’s bursting with vineyards, all well known if you’re a wine buff. Cafes, galleries, restaurants and boutiques line the streets which span from the central roundabout. Time to find our B&B for the next 2 nights, and after driving seemingly a long way into the country, past the grazing sheep and cows, we find the bougainvillaea gates to Havelock House. This is downtime for us. To be up to […]

Categories: Art, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Colours of the night, Family & Friends, Gorgeous places to stay • Tags: artdeco, Coromandel Coast, Havelock North, Location Sketches, New Zealand, Taupo, Te Mata

Travelling North

December 26, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

The flight landed in Wellington in New Zealand, and with a freshly picked up car, the three of us head to Palmerston North. The wedding day dawns. Brilliant blue skies and sunshine. Just what they’d hoped for. The wedding is at 10am in a park, in a spot specially picked out, and rows of chairs placed for the guests to be rested off their stilettos. The skies open. Down down down comes the rain. A sea of umbrellas. Soggy ground […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Food Sketching, Great coffee, Sketch Workshops, Sketching Holidays, Sketching in New Zealand, Travel Sketching • Tags: Lake Taupo NZ, Lord of the Rings, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Palmerston North, Sketches, Taupo, Te Horo, Wellington

Almost Christmas Lunch – Kiwi style

December 2, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

It’s the annual Kiwi Christmas lunch. In Sydney. Off in the early morning, to get the best and most summery of fruits. It’s my annual contribution and the others will be doing the same, putting together what they always bring. We were advertising people in our former lives, but we have been friends since ever since. We catch up during the year but this is the big one. Just 4 couples and sometimes a niece or daughter joins us. But […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Family & Friends, Special Occasions • Tags: Christmas, Christmas celebrations, Christmas dinner, Creative people

Sketch Your Own Greeting Cards

November 28, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28 ’13 An exciting time of year for us. Making our own sketch Christmas/ Birthday/ Thank you/ Goodbye Greeting Cards. Somehow when you hear Carols coming out of the ceiling in lifts – you know it’s that time of year. We have some very high quality blank cards, which you do any sketch you like, straight on to the tiny space the window allows. We have a big collection of decorations to pick from, and you do as […]

Categories: Art, Art to enchant, Christmas Art, Christmas Gifts, Family & Friends, Greeting Cards, Out & About Sketch Classes, Travel Sketching • Tags: Christmas, Gifts, Greeting card, Santa Claus, Sketch

Copra Shed & Vivili Village Meke. Sketching at Daku Fiji.

October 3, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Thursday Sept 19 I love hearing the sound of rain on a tin roof. Except when you have out & about sketching plans. Not that rain lasts long here in Fiji, so we can still go with Plan A and we can still have a yoga session. Some want to go snorkeling and others will come up to the Haman property, to sketch the Copra processing shed. We all go up to the main house to greet our hosts Arthur […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching and Yoga Fiji, Travel Sketching in Fiji • Tags: Coconut, Copra, Fiji, Savusavu, Sketch