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It Must be Christmas…..

December 24, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

It must be Christmas when….. the yachts and launches moor overnight in the Cove….This is the glorious sight I beheld this morning as I sat out to sketch the soft colour with everything almost in silhouette. Earlier in December a few begin to stay over on weekends. On boxing day there will be dozens and for NY eve you could walk across the bay over them and not touch the sea. It must be Christmas when…. we have the biggest […]

Categories: Art, Boats, Christmas Art, Colour, Flower Sketches, Manly Beach, Sketches, Sketching Flowers • Tags: Christmas, December, Family, Manly, Sketches, Soft colour

Acrylic & Line Beach Painting

September 29, 2012 by ErinHill 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: Acrylic & line painting, Beach Paintings, Beach sketches, Colour, Sketching • Tags: Acrylic, Acrylic paint, Beach Views, Paint, Sketches, Square Canvas

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Jacaranda Time

November 13, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I did this 16 X 12inch painting yesterday. I’m still seeing Jacarandas in bloom and wanted to do a larger work. I used watered down dark watercolour – brown & dark blue mixed around, then used a pointy brush to sketch in the main shapes. Then heaps of watery colour splashed around. I’m doing a few bigger ones like this at the moment. I checked with Raoul Dufy. Yes I think he’s pleased with me. ©ErinHill2011

Categories: Art, Colour, Line & Watercolour, Painting, Painting Techniques, watercolour • Tags: art, Composition & Colour, Jacaranda, Painting, Soft colour

Coloured Pen Sketch

November 9, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

It rained on our last Sketch day class. Not so much on us, but on everyone. As it turned out we were planning to meet at an indoor/ outdoor cafe and work from there. Perfect. Rain was not a problem. People always want to eat and drink regardless so there were plenty of subjects to sketch. I was trying out my new Stabilo Coloured Pens. Thought I’d take away the safety net – the black pen – and try bright […]

Categories: Art, Colour, Sketching, Sketching Classes • Tags: art, Coloured Pens, Composition & Colour, Sketches

Bright Colour, Rich Texture

May 30, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I’d had these 3 canvases for awhile. Each had a very textured base I’d created with gesso and scrunched up paper. My plan had been to create a series of 3 which would hang together. But being me I’d not followed that idea, but done contemporary compositions in everything from pure colour, to gelato ones. Each was interesting but didn’t really make it on their own or as a group. So – even though I’d prepared 2 other new canvases, […]

Categories: Acrylic Layers, Acrylic Painting, Art, Colour, Compositions, Contemporary Art • Tags: Acrylic paint, Bright clear colour, Composition & Colour

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The Tide Comes In

March 15, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I am very fond of soft edged and pale colours at the moment. Awhile back I did some mixed media with texture colour and stencils. These I felt were a step on the way to something else, but not sure what. I took this 20 X 24” canvas the other day and gessoed it top to bottom. One of my sketches of rocks and water kept stopping me whenever I flipped past it. I liked the composition – a good […]

Categories: Acrylic Layers, Acrylic Painting, Art, Colour, Compositions, Water and rockscapes • Tags: Acrylic paint, Composition & Colour, Mixed media, Soft colour, Water views

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Mixed Media – Fresh off the Easel

February 18, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

This is like being at Yoga. Breathe deeply and let go. Painting is like that too. You can get so tight and labour the work till you can’t find that wonderful spontaneity and freshness. So I let go, and did something with lovely pure colour and simply let the design find itself. Once again I used pieces from my sketches to create a story, then worked the colours and textures to connect the parts. So much fun and […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Colour, Contemporary Art, Mixed Media, Painting Techniques • Tags: Acrylic paint, Composition & Colour, Mixed media

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And now for Something Completely Different

February 11, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

Mixed Media. I loved doing this. It’s about moments in time. It’s about feelings. It’s about colour. Mixed Media 1 – is the building block. Glazed pieces of my sketches and texture from paper napkins painted in Acrylic Medium and some lines dragged through the thickest areas for effect. Mixed Media 2 – now has clear bright colour added – acrylic – painted wherever I feel like it. Then come decisions about how much and which colour where. Once I’d […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Colour, Contemporary Art, Layers and Glazing, The challenges of a new painting • Tags: Acrylic paint, Composition & Colour, Painting the essence, Pure Colour

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Friend from around the world all collected on my pinboard.

My Pinboard Friends

August 20, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

Last week I painted the cork white – as if you’d see it now anyway. Then out came my special collection of bits and pieces I’ve saved which inspire me, and which had been in boxes because I’ve had nowhere for them. I have cards from Glenys based on her superb South African paintings. A set of Tuscan illustrative cards I’ve always like the style of. A mad series of Paris postcards of the Eiffel Tower as crazy paintings. Some […]

Categories: Colour, Compositions, Great reference shots, The little things in Life • Tags: Arles, Eiffel Tower, Family & Friends, Panama, Paris, Postcards, Provence, San Blas Islands, South Africa

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Category Archives: Colour

It Must be Christmas…..

Acrylic & Line Beach Painting

Jacaranda Time

Coloured Pen Sketch

Bright Colour, Rich Texture

The Tide Comes In

Mixed Media – Fresh off the Easel

And now for Something Completely Different

My Pinboard Friends

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