Advanced Sketching. Twigs & Coloured Inks.

June 27, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

ADVANCED SKETCHING  FRIDAY 11.30AM.  JUNE 27 ’14 We arrive as Judy’s class is leaving. Everybody greets each other like long lost friends.  Well we are. Oh and Happy Birthday Judy. What better way to spend it! Today in Advanced sketching, we will work with twigs and coloured inks.  A pile of varying sized twigs to choose as people put out what they’ve found on the way. The inks are the 4 primary colours but not black. Once again we decide […]

Categories: Advanced Sketch Classes, Art, Bright Colour, Fauvists, Plein air painting, Sketching techniques, Travel Sketching • Tags: Color, Composition & Colour, Travel Sketching, Twig sketching

Yellow Daisies – a decorative acrylic

September 24, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

A little bit French. But of course. If you think you’ve seen this painting from me before – well you have –  and you haven’t! This is a textured canvas I’d created when I first had a go at some mixed media acrylics awhile back. Since then it’s probably had at least 5 paintings on top of the first one. Can you believe I’d done 3 of these very textured canvases!  I simply couldn’t feel happy with any of them, […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Contemporary Art, Creative food, Fauvists, Still life • Tags: Beach Views, Decorative Painting, French Windows, Yellow Daisies

The Italian Water Jug

August 8, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

Looking from our balcony, beyond the outdoor table setting, I made a sketch looking out to the Sunday morning sailing school in action. They look wonderful, all following the leader, with support boats hovering as they round the markers and sigh with relief that they made it. I’m definitely working my own ‘Fauve’ style now. This one is very close to the original sketch and I was pleased at my efforts to convert it from that style to this. ©ErinHill2011

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Fauvists, Waterscapes • Tags: Acrylic paint, Harbour happenings, Square Canvas, Water views

White Dove

August 4, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

As you can see, this is an incredibly textured canvas. I wasn’t happy with the previous painting on it, so gessoed over it and started a new painting. I was keen to do another ‘window’ so worked out a composition which would be busy, and work with all the added texture. I could have called it ‘Red Tulips’ but it was too obvious, and I was liking the soft dove on the window sill, so it’s named after him. Slowly […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Fauvists, French windows, Manly Beach • Tags: Acrylic paint, Beach Views, Textured Canvas, Water views

Beach Painting in a new Style

September 2, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

It’s fine and dandy to think you can paint like the Masters. I keep looking at the Vlaminck and then at the ErinHill and there is an ocean of difference. His has nice slabs of changing colour and he doesn’t outline everything, or in the same thickness. Now I want to get back to Paris and find this painting to see it in the raw. And no I’m not waiting 2 hrs in any queue, it’s too urgent for that. […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Expressionists, Fauvists • Tags: Acrylic paint, Beach Views, Paint

Next Experimental Painting

August 31, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

I have a Vlaminck page in a sketchbook of drawings and reference I’d collected, and decided to have a crack at this style. His is of trees and a house, but no matter, mine is based on some photos I did along the beach walk, so not much similarity there!. It’s the colours he used I loved, and then big black lines all over it to define the shapes of things. I taped up the painting block, and began putting […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Fauvists • Tags: Color, Drawing, Paint