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Sketching Week 3. Sailing & Sea.

February 21, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

A very enjoyable week for all our students. This week it was colour techniques with watercolour pencil with water brush. We started with a quick nautical sketch followed by a page of colour swatches, using all 10 of our coloured pencils. Hard to light and a stroke of water brush to see what happens. Colours were then applied to your sketch, and sparing use of your water brush, learning how much or little water was best. You’ll soon find out which!  We […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Acrylic, Beginners Art Classes Sydney, Travel Sketching Classes manly, Travel Sketching Northern Beaches

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Sketchclub. Monthly Sketch&Wine Evening.

January 29, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

TUESDAY JANUARY 27 6.30 – 8.30pm TUESDAY JANUARY 27   6.30 – 8.30pm Tonight was our Sketch your Recipe night. Bring along your favourite recipe and a few ingredients, and design your recipe as illustrations. Several people braved the torrential downpours and managed to make it to the Studio. A few simply put their pyjamas on and refused to venture out! Some glasses of wine, some tasty nibbles and catching up with other sketchers, and  before long Christy and Toni had […]

Categories: Art Classes Manly, Art Classes Sydney, Food Sketches, Recipe Sketching • Tags: Acrylic, Evening Sketching, Food Sketching, Monthly Sketch Club

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Beach Sketch Painting

Acrylic & Line Beach Painting

September 29, 2012 by Erin Hill Sketching

This is another in my 12 inch square acrylic and line beach paintings. The series are all based on location sketches, and which looked as though they’d translate to a larger size than the original A5. I really like this one. The colours are right, the composition works and it has a very cheerful ambience to it. Available in SHOP. ©ErinHill2012

Categories: Beach Paintings, Beach sketches, Colour, Sketching • Tags: Acrylic, Acrylic paint, Beach Views, Paint, Sketches, Square Canvas

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Manly and Shelley Beaches

Manly and Shelley Beaches

December 29, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

Pen over acrylic layers. 30 X 20 inches. This is a view I keep coming back to. I wanted to experiment with layers of acrylic on 300gsm paper and then draw in black line. I tend to go with a scene I’m familiar with when trying out stuff.  So I started this before Christmas, and worked a little at a time when I could be in the Studio. I’m trying to think where I want to head with my work […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Compositions, Line & Watercolour, Manly Beach, Painting Techniques • Tags: Acrylic, Acrylic paint, art, Beach Views, Composition & Colour

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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 […]

Categories: Compositions, painting in italy • Tags: Acrylic, Layers & glazes, Painting outdoors

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