erin hill sketching

Potted Plants and a Garden Cafe

May 18, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

THURSDAY MAY 16 ’13 This week is about the garden. Our setups are cacti and succulents, and potted blooms, one in an old rusty hanging basket. I seem to wanting more sketches from everyone these days and people are stepping up to the mark. At least 2 in the first hour to be completed. Down the hill we go ( it’s always down to start with! ) and straight ahead till we reach Short St Plaza. Now you wouldn’t look […]

Categories: Local Foods, Art, Food Sketches, Flower Sketching, Sketching Gardens, Sketching Cafes, Out & About Sketch Classes, Manly Sketches • Tags: Composition & Colour, Coffee, Food, Sketching, Manly, Travel Sketching, Cactus

A Most Exotic Bouquet

May 17, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

Venta has set a new standard in flower giving. We’ve been having trouble communicating lately – her computers and phones were off the air waves and I’d wondered if she had given us up. But no, everything is up and working again and as class was starting, in walks Venta with the most glorious bouquet of exotics most of us had not seen before! There were purple rose cabbages, gold and crimson orchids, and some protea leaves – about now […]

Categories: Art, Flower Sketches, Sketching Flowers, Special Occasions, Watercolour Painting • Tags: Composition & Colour, Floristry, Flower bouquet, Quick Watercolours

Gâteau à goûter et géraniums à dessiner

May 13, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

Things were going a bit pear-shaped today. Some days are like that! I’d raced to the Studio to set up the tables with a gorgeous potted geranium and another long stemmed one in a glass. Then we started straight into sketching – how high, how wide – my mantra. But this time we’d be pushing things along and doing two sketches within the hour. Oops, realised I hadn’t made the Mariage tea we always start with! Anyway, […]

Categories: Art, Food Sketches, French conversation, Sketch & French Classes, Sketching Flowers • Tags: French language, Shopping list, Sketching, Sydney

Baskets, Manly Ferry & the Cove

May 11, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

THURSDAY MAY 9 ’13 I know I keep talking about the weather but it’s just too beautiful. Downunder we should be headed for cold. That’s usually june. MMmmm. In the Studio where all the action was, we were doing baskets. Round ones, long ones, lidded ones and 2 little old dolls from Peru. A nice touch. Yes there are some challenges. Getting each shape right, getting the inside shadows to show corners turning, the light on top, the darker sides […]

Categories: Art, Beach sketches, Boats, Bright Colour, Manly Beach, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Beaches • Tags: Beach Views, Ciao Belli Cafe, Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Manly, Manly ferry services, Sketches, Sydney

The Seagull and Me

May 7, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

A very nice day again. Decided to pop in to Ciao Belli Cafe, sit quietly in the sun, and sketch. Flavia brought me a delicious Greek Salad and I settled into the seat with a seaside view. St Patrick’s sits high on the hill above the wharf. The Norfolk pines framed the setting. Looked like a sketch to me. Not a soul around so it seemed more like my own place, unlike weekends when we share Manly with all the […]

Categories: Art, Beach sketches, Line & Watercolour, Manly Beach, Out & About Sketch Classes • Tags: Beach Views, Food, Greek Salad, Harbour happenings, Location Sketches, Travel Sketching

Citrons, Gaufres et Français

May 6, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

Today our sketch was the gorgeous bowl of fresh lemons. Lemon or citron seems very much a part of French cuisine. Give me a slice of Tarte Citron and I’m in heaven. Adeline says most of the lemons come from Menton on the Cote d’Azur. Menton – really – and so is Katherine Mansfield’s house ( famous NZ writer) where she spent time writing her wonderful short stories. Who’d have thought! Meantime the sketches were happening and Adeline was whipping up […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketches, French conversation, Sketch & French Classes • Tags: Composition & Colour, France, French cuisine, French Riviera, Katherine Mansfield, Lemon, Menton, Sketches

Fresh Lemons & Vine Tomatoes

May 4, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

THURSDAY MAY 2 A lovely bright day for Out & About Sketching. This is Term 2. Already! Everybody was excited to be back sketching again, and catching up on what the others had been doing. We welcomed 2 new sketchers to our Thursday class, and one intrepid traveller returning with a sketchbook bursting with sketches of India. Some have swapped classes. Others are away travelling. But a very happy group we are. Before long all fears of starting first sketches […]

Categories: Art, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching, Sketching Classes, Sketching techniques, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Composition & Colour, Freshly grown local produce, Raglan Gallery, Sketching

Cakes Glorious Cakes

May 1, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

What beautiful 3 tiered cake display stands arrived at our table for our Sketch your Cake High Tea. Here we are at Boronia House, gazing at the table which would be ours, and the colours of the old-fashioned style tea cups, each a different colour. Then the gerberas in small glass jars caught our eye. All side lit as the sun came in through the tall window with a perfect tree outside. Maybe it’s a painting we are about to […]

Categories: Art, Creative food, Food Sketching, Sketch & High Tea, Sketching Flowers, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Art as food, Baking and Confections, Cake, Chocolate, Composition & Colour, Cooking, Food, Sketches, Travel Sketching

Gardénia blanc et Camelia rose avec du pain de banane

April 29, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

We had our first Sketch&French class for Term 2 today.What a glorious few weeks of perfect weather we are having. Perfect too for starting another S&F class with a few newcomers to welcome. To make it not too frightening for those who are new to sketching, I always find simple flowers are a lovely way to begin. Your lines will always look like the flower in front of you if you take a moment to really look at it’s shape. […]

Categories: Art, Flower Sketches, French conversation, Sketch & French Classes, Sketching Flowers, Traveling & Sketching • Tags: art, France, French language, Sketches

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