Landscapes | erin hill sketching

Apples Leaves & Trees

March 9, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

I’ve done some demo sketch treatments of leaves and trees on the whiteboard, so you’ll see that way below, for your interest. THURSDAY MARCH 7 ’13 A bright sunny day this Thursday. Already our 6th week of this term. We simply had to have apples as a sketch still life today – all the way from the Blue Mts, and the same apples sketched over 3 days. We’re doing trees in the park, so it seems a good idea to […]

Categories: Art, Landscapes, Line & Watercolour, Manly Sketches, Sketching Classes, Sketching Gardens, Still life, watercolour • Tags: Apple, Composition & Colour, Freshly grown local produce, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketchbook, Sketches, Travel Sketching, Tree, Vespa

Strawberries sketched in Madrid. Therese.

Student Sketches

January 4, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

It’s always very rewarding for me when class members so enjoy their sketching that they send me email and text images of them. Here are some for you to enjoy……… Erin this is my first proper sketch of the holiday. Have tried a few buildings but need to get my eye in. We visited a market in Madrid today and bought 250g of strawberries for .50 euro. They were wrapped in a cone of plain paper and we ate them […]

Categories: Art, Flower Sketches, Landscapes, Line & Watercolour, Sketching Beaches, Sketching Flowers • Tags: Beach Views, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketch, Sketches, Sri Lanka, Travel Sketching, Watercolor painting

Jacquie, Old Doorway, Therese, Belfry Rome, Jan, Paris Left Bank

Holiday Sketches

October 5, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

Several Sketchers have had some wonderful trips overseas recently and others have visited other places closer to home, but all have produced some delightful travel sketches. Therese has returned from Rome and London, and Jenny had a marvellous time in Botswana and Namibia. Jacquie has been in Singapore and Melbourne. Pam has been on the South Coast, Atsuko has been to Ayers Rock and Robbie has been between Manly and Lindfield – though has broken a wrist so hopefully can […]

Categories: Boats, Landscapes, Sketching, Sketching Holidays, Traveling & Sketching • Tags: African Animals, Ayers Rock, Beaches, Botswana, Manly, Namibia, Sketching & Travelling

Sketching with a Friend

September 3, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

We had such a lovely catchup day. This is a long term painting friend who I’ve painted with since we reconnected many a year back. We would plan a day to go on location, take our dogs and our picnic lunch and off we’d go. Both of us were working in oils then, though I went seriously into watercolour after that, and more recently to acrylic and line. At her studio I was thrilled to see Glenys trying new mediums […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Landscapes, My Artist Friends, Sketching, Traveling & Sketching, watercolour • Tags: pleinaire, Travel Sketching

Leave a comment

Coffee and cruising

August 30, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

Being somewhere else means you are out of your usual routine but having your first coffee of the day helps to settle you in. It was gorgeous to catch up with old friends again and there’ll be more of this during the week. Later back at the house I was so taken with this spectacular view of Skytower in the main part of Auckland city. It’s even more so at night when all the lights are glittering. I’m enjoying sketching […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Family & Friends, Food Sketches, Landscapes, Line & Watercolour, Painting holidays • Tags: Travel Sketching

Leave a comment

Tues 14 August. Mannequins or Gum Blossoms

Sketch Classes this Week: Tues14, Thur16, Fri17 August

August 17, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

TUESDAY AUG 14 With one new person and two who are regulars, I offered a gorgeous vase of red gum blossoms which somehow had survived the awful weather we’d had since Friday. The other choice. The mannequin. Oh no! As it turned out 2 people decided on the flowers and one brave sketcher faced her fear of ‘people sketching’. Everyone did a delightful sketch and were happy to move onto Bacino Bar on Manly Corso. We are looking a lot […]

Categories: Art, Landscapes, Sketching Classes, watercolour, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Sketching Stairs and Steps, watercolour

Leave a comment

Afternoon Shadows, Manly Beach

June 15, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

This is a Winter beach painting. If it was summer, you’d hardly see the sand for people, and the shadows would be much less. Winter can be the best of both seasons. Clear blue skies, no wind, calm seas and no humidity – and warm. I do put clouds in my paintings anyway, cos I love them. The shadows at this time of year are very dramatic from late afternoon on, and I like the moment when I add that […]

Categories: Art, Landscapes, Manly Beach, Watercolour Painting • Tags: art, Beach Views, Manly Beach, Original Watercolour, Water views

Leave a comment

The Gardens & The City

March 16, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

Again the Ibis is there. Two little water hens were pecking around, and keeping a beady eye on him. They can run quite fast I noticed when Mr Ibis gives them the evil eye. This was a great spot for looking at a whole layer of things. I was on the way back towards the Band Lawn where the group would later meet, and there was about enough time – say 20 mins at most – to draw something else. […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Landscapes, Line & Watercolour, Quick Sketches • Tags: Botanical Gardens and Arboreta, Composition & Colour, Ibis, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Sydney

Leave a comment

Midsomer Murders – St Stephen’s Church Kurrajong

February 10, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

It was Peta who made the comment when she saw the drawing. Oooh Midsomer Murders – was there anyone hiding in the bushes? Well, actually I did hear some twigs crack. Then there was the man sitting in a chair on the far side of the graveyard, facing out to the valley. So silent here. I thought it was odd. Was he alive? Kurrajong is very much after the style of the villages in U.K. where this long running series […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Landscapes, Line & Watercolour, Plein air painting • Tags: Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Painting the essence

	Karen Ferguson on Up up and Away for St Patrick…
	ErinHill Sketching on A Most Exotic Bouquet
	Lee Kline on A Most Exotic Bouquet
	Diana Earle on Gâteau à goûter et géraniums à…

erin hill sketching

Finding beauty in the everyday through sketching.

Category Archives: Landscapes

Apples Leaves & Trees

Student Sketches

Holiday Sketches

Sketching with a Friend

Coffee and cruising

Sketch Classes this Week: Tues14, Thur16, Fri17 August

Afternoon Shadows, Manly Beach

The Gardens & The City

Midsomer Murders – St Stephen’s Church Kurrajong

Follow “erin hill sketching”