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Thurs. Oct 25. Sketching ourselves

Portraits & Streetscapes

October 27, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

Oct 25,26,27th ’12 Another week with some fun and challenging subjects……. THURSDAY OCT 25 ’12 Not a still life in sight. Whatever will we sketch then! The answer – each other. The idea is to sketch whoever is nearby, so you are not staring at each other. This also means people will hold that position till their own sketch is done.  One cannot take this personally as you’ll discover. We just want the shape and character of whoever we are sketching. Some […]

Categories: Art, Compositions, Doorways, Sketching architecture, Sketching Classes, Sketching houses, watercolour, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Architecture, Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Travel Sketching

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Underpainting for major work

For my upcoming Exhibition

January 29, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

I need a very large painting on the main wall as you enter the exhibition. Did I mention my Bather’s Pavilion Exhibition in March & April? Well it’s 2 years since my last one already! So this 1metre square piece will do the honours. Not in it’s present state of course. This is the scrubbed on colour only. Yet to follow when I get a moment – between moving house,  Nic & Adrian’s Fiesta Wedding & Term 1 Sketch Classes […]

Categories: Acrylic & line painting, Art, Beach Paintings, Compositions, Quick Sketches, Waterscapes • Tags: Balmoral Beach, Balmoral New South Wales, Composition & Colour, Raoul Dufy, Square Canvas

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Colour Texture X 3

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

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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Manly and Shelley Beaches

Manly and Shelley Beaches

December 29, 2010 by ErinHill 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 Layers, Acrylic Painting, Art, Compositions, Line & Watercolour, Manly Beach, Painting Techniques • Tags: Acrylic, Acrylic paint, art, Beach Views, Composition & 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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New Milo the Cat Drawings

Milo the Cat in Paris – The Sketches

July 28, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

These are the sketches of Milo in different positions. I have a few photos taken the day we visited his loft apartment in Paris so that was of great help. He is quite a ‘grand chat’ so I’m trying to show his true proportions! These are the sketches shown in the 8 ‘Milo the Cat in Paris’ series. Come join us in Paris on our Travel Sketching week, and learn to create your own sketch journal of  special places and […]

Categories: A Cat in Paris, Compositions, Drawings & Sketches • Tags: Great reference pics, Paris, Sketches

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Acrylic stage 1

Twin Bridges, Acrylic glazes, Italy

May 20, 2010 by ErinHill 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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Working Drawings

Charcoal drawing in Italy

May 17, 2010 by ErinHill 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 […]

Categories: Compositions, painting in italy, Sketches • Tags: Charcoal Drawing, Looking for light & dark, Painting & Drawing in Italy

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