Sketching Ourselves and other Characters

August 30, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

New Sketchers. 12noon Monday August 25 ’14 This is a series of 3 classes for some keen sketchers who we couldn’t squeeze into our weekly classes – so it’s a bit of a ‘special’ really. For our two brand new sketchers it was a little nerve -wracking, as you begin to wonder as you step into the Studio if this was all just a bad idea. Me sketch! What! Never have been before so why do I think I can […]

Categories: Art, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching People, Travel Sketching • Tags: Line drawing with Watercolour, Painting Friends, Travel Sketching

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 […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, French sketches, My Artist Friends, Painting holidays, Painting in France, Sketching in France, Travel Sketching, Villages of France • Tags: Painting Friends, Sketch Holidays, Sketching in South of France, Trausse Minervois

The Potter’s Cat

May 20, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

It’s been a good productive week in the Studio. A real flurry of action.Lots of painting going on. We’ve also squeezed in ‘The Archibald’ exhibition at AGNW and ‘Salon des Refuses’ at SH Ervin Gallery, The Bathers this morning – where we exhibit next year, plus some great teas and coffees. Glenys has been working with me while she’s here and already has this one – ‘Le chat de Potiers’ –  complete, and another virtually done. We still have a few […]

Categories: A Cat in Paris, Art, Oil painting, Painting in the Studio • Tags: Composition & Colour, France, Painting Friends, Painting the essence

Another Day, another International Sketch

January 23, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

I like this side of Manly Wharf. Manly Cove and it could be a million miles from the city. It’s half an hour by ferry. Sketch Club members also liked it. Many of them could be found concentrating over their notebooks, which brought a smile to the faces of many a passerby. Such a long esplanade, great sand and the water is so aqua and turquoise and green and blue – and sparkly. And that pink edge where the sand […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Manly Beach, My Artist Friends, Plein air painting • Tags: Beach Views, Harbour happenings, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Painting Friends, Quick Watercolours

More from Sketch Club

January 17, 2011 by Erin Hill Sketching

The second sketch was actually my first – if you get my drift. However it made more sense to show the big vista and you can then see where the Brolga Fountain is.  Cos I just know you wanted to know!!! By the way, that is not a Jet Fighter flying past. Just a little ol’ Qantas jet, but my pen got a bit excited and I forgot my seagulls. It’s been fantastic seeing the results from the other Sketchers […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Harbour action, My Artist Friends, Plein air painting • Tags: Harbour happenings, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Painting Friends, Water views

Vicki Grace – Meditations – Exhibition

December 4, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

This lovely invitation shows details from Vicki Grace’s newest paintings. The show is being held in her own studio in Newtown, Sydney. It’s a large old converted warehouse, with huge wall space and perfect for the large works that Vicki produces. I loved that she is using quite strong colour combinations for this show, but counter balanced with more muted ones. As she says ‘ Yin & yang’. Vicki paints emotions. A keen yoga person, she regularly trots off to […]

Categories: Art exhibitions, Contemporary Art, Layers and Glazing, My Artist Friends • Tags: Composition & Colour, Exhibition space with feeling, Painting Friends

Studio coming along, but will it work to share?

August 4, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

The track system is now up so have stacked the walls with everything formerly on the floor. Managed to get that olive/grey wall done so that the white track would sit nicely at the top, and I wouldn’t have to paint around it. The whole studio looks so fresh and bright. People are stopping to come and see what I’m doing now. The front window shows from the street as cars go by, so it’s obvious that it’s an art […]

Categories: Exhibitions, Great places to exhibit, My Painting Studio • Tags: Exhibition space with feeling, Painting Friends, Window displays

Painting with Friends in Tuscano

February 28, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

In May this year is another ‘Painting Week’ in Barga, Tuscany. Introducing Niki and Glenys. We started painting together in 2002 in the Greek Islands. It was the first organised painting trip we’d done with a group and we’ve developed a bit of a passion for it . In 2008 we did the Italy trip through Tuscany and Umbria. We just have such a glorious time together and have the same mad humour and dedication to getting paint on paper […]

Categories: Gorgeous places to stay, My Artist Friends, Painting in Italy, Travelling & Painting • Tags: Painting Friends, Travelling Painters

Tuscany Painting in Exhibition

January 17, 2010 by Erin Hill Sketching

I have created groups of work for the exhibition, according to which country they were painted in, and then the regions. The painting trip I was on last year was through Italy – Tuscany first then on to Umbria. Several works from this trip are in the show. Luckily  I’d thought to take this photo. Honestly, I wish I did this more. Most of the time it seems everybody else is in the shots, but try and find one with […]

Categories: Exhibitions, My Artist Friends, Painting in Italy, Travelling & Painting • Tags: Painting Friends, Travelling Painters