Sketching Lessons Trausse

July 6, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Wednesday July 6 ’16 For Carolyn and Paul 10am was the appointed time and we’d meet at La Bergerie. Our Studio was the garden. It was a very hot South of France kind of day. The kind the romantic novels always wax lyrical about, and the movies tend to favour. And the grapes really do need propping up. Must be ripe soon in all this heat. For both, it was the first Travel Sketching Lesson. We had our new French sketching kit […]

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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 […]

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Where I sketch in the South of France

July 12, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

I’m sketching in Trausse in May 2014, to catch up with the changes and restorations Marilyn and Steve have made since my last visit. Don’t you just love this little garden above. Although I’ll be doing my own sketching for them on this trip, I’m planning your next fully escorted Travel Sketching Holiday in Provence for 2015 as we speak. Then I can spend all my time guiding you through the art of Travel Sketching. I also have plans for […]

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New version of Original French Sketch

April 3, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

I have a large sketchbook where I try out new ideas. Yesterday I wanted to re sketch some I did in Trausse, South of France on my last visit.  All had been done at high speed and they worked. The original location sketches stay in my book forever, but I will occasionally re sketch using them as reference and this one above is a new one. It’s interesting to compare the two. This one is different from the first one. […]

Categories: Art, French sketches, Line & Watercolour, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting in France, Sketching Gardens, Sketching in France • Tags: France, Sketching, South of France, Trausse

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

French Living – a new mag for Francophiles

October 19, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

I recently discovered FRENCH LIVING magazine through Marilyn & Steve in South of France. It’s quite new so I decided to subscribe. Just loved my first issue as I think many of you will. If you travel there, spend time there, own property there, or plan to – then this is a great read. Some of us travel there quite often and plan to spend more and more time in France, so it feels like a local newspaper with that […]

Categories: French Living Magazine, Local Foods, Painting in France, Paris, Sketching in France, Sketching in Paris • Tags: France, French Magazines, Marais, Sofitel

Re-visit the Rhone Alpes France

April 5, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

The reach of the internet is a wondrous thing. Somebody had seen the earlier painting of these toll houses and asked to buy the original. Absolutely. We had some correspondence and a smaller size was decided. If you live in an old cottage in Dorset, wall space is limited by beams, doorways, staircases, chimneys and more. And it doesn’t need to be mailed. The client is visiting Sydney so will pop in and pick up the finished painting. Easy. I […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Painting in France, Plein air painting, watercolour • Tags: France, Location Sketches, Original Watercolour

Open Night for Friends and Neighbours

December 9, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

    It was a jolly occasion. 6.30 – 8.30 sharp. Pop in, have some crisp Rosé or Pinot Gris from Kira’s family vineyard. Anything you purchase tonight is 10% off. And they did. This was the 3 of us in the Studio saying to the World ‘hello we are here’. Red Olive 2 doors up did the same, which meant we could both take your money – (and give you great value.)  We had such a good time, and […]

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Painted in Southern France

June 18, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

Painted on location in Southern France. 300gsm A3 size. The 2 line drawings I showed the other day were the working drawings I did from the doorway of the Summer Kitchen. In the end I decided on the old iron bed with the 2 periwinkle blue doors behind. My heart just soars when I see this perfect little French setting, the sun high and hot in a clear blue sky and happy chirps breaking the silence. So i have finally […]

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