Continuing Journeys in Tuscany

September 24, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Monday September 22 ’14 The sun is up and rising high in the sky. We are having what we dreamed of here in Tuscany. Cobalt blue skies and Cad Yellow hot sun, with high hills, walled cities, pencil pines and rough red tiled roofs at funny angles. Sydney it ain’t. In the Studio we were continuing our ‘going away’ concept and would be doing a stack of oblong boxes at differing angles. Imagine you are looking out of a Tuscan […]

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Re paint ‘View from Cordati’s Studio’ Barga, Tuscany

September 21, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

Just to show that I do paint more than just beaches, rocks and water!  The smaller painting up on the easel is the oil I did the day we were at Bruno Cordati’s studio in Barga. I hadn’t used oils for years so it was a challenge spreading my colours out and not mixing them together and getting mud. I did of course. It’s unfinished – because they take too long to dry for me. But I had blocked in […]

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Twin Bridges, Acrylic glazes, Italy

May 20, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

I haven’t worked in acrylic before. This was an exercise in layers and glazes. We would begin with A1 sized gesso’d 300 gsm paper and after working out the composition in sketches, indicate where on the paper it would be. You can see the 2 layers  managed before it rained, but did get the sponged off areas lifted before it dried ( or got rained off!) it looks to have progressed at high speed and indeed next day the acrylic […]

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Charcoal Sketching in Italy

May 17, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

Last time I used charcoal was at life drawing classes somewhere in my distant memory. Here is an exercise said Chris. Pick a spot, do a 10, 30, 60 and 120 second series of sketches and get to know your subject. Then do a one hour drawing. It’s the little chimney on top of an ancient outdoor oven. This of course can become the basis for a painting in whatever medium you choose to work in. You will have worked […]

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First Oil Painting in 10 yrs

May 16, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

How bout this! The studio of Bruno Cordati is where we worked on either internal or external views. For some reason I thought I would be working in my usual watercolour, but Chris supplies all 9 painters with absolutely all materials, and we work on a different medium every day. It’s fab. I knew I’d be getting outside my comfort zone anyway, but this was truly pushing into old memories. We did the sketch of the composition to work from […]

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Sketches, Italy

November 28, 2009 by Erin Hill Sketching

              I found these 2 sketches while sorting out watercolours for my exhibition. Let it be a spontaneous response to what I see. That’s what a sketch is. Just an impression of what you see in that moment. Actually we had such a great time doing our sketches that day. There was Glenys, and Niki and myself in Florence as part of an art tour. Great views to paint here is a bit like […]

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