Sketching His and Hers Travel Toiletries

June 21, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY 10AM GENERAL SKETCHING. JUNE 19 ’14. Oh look at those blue skies.  It’s chilly first and last thing, but you know you’ll be pealing off the layers in the middle of the day. So – wear layers. This week we are going into the bathroom and seeing what toiletries you travel with. On one table HIS choice.  The other table HER choice. We have an interesting sketch to do in 30 mins and get colour on. Lots of shapes […]

Categories: Art, Observing the Light, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching techniques, Travel Sketching • Tags: Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Travel Sketching

Sketching ‘things that go away’

June 7, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

In other words the dreaded p e r s p e c t i v e. THURSDAY 10AM GENERAL CLASS. JUNE 5 ’14. Is that rain I hear? Oh well it’s only 6am so it will surely clear for our sketch classes. This week we’d decided some ‘Perspective’ would be helpful. It does take our brains some time to SEE where all the lines go, but once you do, you’ll have the answer to how perspective works. In the Studio for […]

Categories: Art, Observing the Light, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching, Sketching Perspective, Sketching techniques, Travel Sketching, Travelling with your Sketchbook, Watercolour Pencils

Early Easter Sketching Week

April 5, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

  THURSDAY APRIL 3 ’14  –  GROUP 1 “Hello, its Christy here” and our first group of sketchers are arriving, excited to see what is in store for them today. Easter is in store for us, wrapped up in bows and foil, with chubby cheeked bunnies and cute little chicks. We sketched two lovely Easter themed still lives in the studio today. We talked about how to make good use of the chinograph when we are sketching ‘shiny’ objects like […]

Categories: Art, Manly Sketches, Observing the Light, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching architecture, Sketching techniques, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Composition & Colour, Easter Sketching, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketching, Travel Sketching

Sketching the Beach. Rain or Shine

March 29, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY MARCH 27 ’14 – GROUP 1 “Hello, its Christy here” and I’m taking the first group of sketchers today. 
‘Its raining, its pouring’… but we had no old man snoring, nor any bumping of heads. We had sketching, and no rain was going to dampen our enthusiasm for that. Today’s first group got settled and was amused to see the theme of the day was to sketch each other wearing a hat! One of our early sketchers had put […]

Categories: Art, Beach sketches, Food & Wine, Observing the Light, Out & About Sketch Classes, Reflections, Travel Sketching • Tags: Beach Views, Location Sketches, Manly, Sketching in the Rain, Travel Sketching

The Importance of the Dining Table

January 6, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

I’ve been having some interesting conversations lately about this subject…. We are having such beautiful evenings of late. It is warm and the aroma of scented flowers wafts in the air. We don’t eat till later now with daylight saving, so there’s nothing nicer than sitting on the outdoor seating watching the sun slowly go down. This sketch was done as the sky and sea were changing from bright colour and becoming pale and smokey. The middle distance hills were […]

Categories: Art, Colours of the night, Family & Friends, Food & Wine, Food Sketches, Observing the Light, Sketching, Waterscapes • Tags: Dining room, Eating, Family values, Food, table

Sketching Ettalong

July 10, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

What remarkable weather they have in Ettalong, Pearl beach and Patonga. I think the perfect blues of the day, the gold of sunset, the greens & yellows of water and shore, seem so different from Sydney. Maybe it just seems more so there. We were exploring in this place on the Central Coast where for 15 summers, a decade ago, we spent so much time. Back then our children learned to ride bikes.No TV or phones, but with board games, […]

Categories: Art, Observing the Light, Painting holidays, Sketching, Sketching Holidays • Tags: Beach Views, Central Coast, Ettalong Beach New South Wales, Location Sketches, Patonga New South Wales

Sketching Australian Botanicals

October 9, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

It was a Sketchclub Meetup at The Botanical Gardens. Off I went quite early to grab a coffee and catch the ferry. As it turns out I had a few spare minutes to do a quick sketch of the view from the wharf. Might as well get the eye/hand coordination going before meeting the others. It was nice really. The Ferry men just waiting around to tie up the next ferry – my ferry. Quiet and peaceful on this early Saturday. […]

Categories: Art, Harbour action, Line & Watercolour, Observing the Light, Quick Sketches, Waterscapes • Tags: Australian Garden, Botanical garden, Ficus Macrophylla, Garden, Line drawing with Watercolour

The 6am Ferry

September 19, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

I must be getting up early these mornings! Perhaps because it’s light by 6am, and I’m seeing some glorious sunrises out the window as I head towards my ‘must have’ cuppa tea. I don’t function till I have that! Loved this one, being so soft and pale. Just a few lines and a wash of gentle colours and there it was. I might need some early nights with all this excitement in the mornings! ©ErinHill2011

Categories: Art to Eat, Observing the Light, Pastel, Sketches, Sunrises, Waterscapes • Tags: art, Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Painting the essence, Sketches, Soft colour

Early Evening – or Pale Moon

August 28, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

There is a time late in the day, when the sun goes behind the clouds and the moon is pale in the sky – but it isn’t dark yet! The sky is filled with pink, peach, lavender, cream, gold, and many shades of all of them – absolutely glorious. The sea reflects bits of all that’s above and you know the day is closing. Somehow the pale moon is waiting up there, for it’s turn to come out and shine. […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Art to enchant, Colours of the night, Observing the Light, Plein air painting • Tags: Composition & Colour, Harbour happenings, Paintings of the Moon, Soft colour, Square Canvas