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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

Quarantine Station. Vistas & Vignettes

April 13, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

THURSDAY APRIL 11 What a stunning day. One out of the box. A perfect day for an adventure. At 10am everyone managed to be at the Info Centre ready for our trip down the bumpy ol’ road to the Quarantine Station on the foreshore of the harbour. For 140 years new arrivals were brought here if anyone on the ship was suspected of having a contagious disease. Smallpox in the 1800s, Bubonic plague in the 1900′s, Spanish influenza 1918 -19, […]

Categories: Art, Beach sketches, Line & Watercolour, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Quarantine Beach, Water and rockscapes • Tags: Beach Views, Harbour happenings, Location Sketches, Quarantine Station, Sketch, Sketches, Travel, Water views

New version of Original French Sketch

April 3, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

I have a large sketchbook where I try out new ideas. Yesterday I wanted to re sketch some I did in Trausse, South of France on my last visit. All had been done at high speed and they worked. The original location sketches stay in my book forever, but I will occasionally re sketch using them as reference and this one above is a new one. It’s interesting to compare the two. This one is different from the first one. […]

Categories: Art, French sketches, Line & Watercolour, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting in France, Sketching Gardens, Sketching in France • Tags: France, Sketching, South of France, Trausse

Hotel Les Oeillets, of The Greengage Summer

The Book that Started it all

March 30, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

My Mother was a great reader. In fact both my parents were. Every Saturday morning we’d get into the Austin and be driven to the local library. All of us would come home with a pile of books, plus Mum would get the latest magazines such as Home & Garden, Vogue and Dad would have Saturday Evening Post with Norman Rockwell on every cover and my brother would get Popular Mechanics. We loved it. Apart from alI the Enid Blyton […]

Categories: Painting in France, Line & Watercolour, Art, Art to Eat, Illustration, Sketching in France, French sketches, Book covers • Tags: Rumer Godden, Book cover designs, Sketching Holidays, Erin Hill Sketching

Sketching Towards Easter

March 23, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

THURSDAY MARCH 21 ’13 Our still life setups were in place. A nice old ‘Ford’ car on one table and a small not very accurate model of the good ship Endeavour on the other. Tom arrived with a bag of fresh out of the oven pretzels! – as you do! ‘We’re having a musical soiree at home and these are a few spare pretzels to share’. Onto the plates, with some butter and a tasty addition to the transport setups […]

Categories: Art, Line & Watercolour, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting Techniques, Sketching Cafes, Sketching Classes, Sketching Gardens, Urban Sketchers Sydney, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Easter, Easter Bunny, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Quick Watercolours, Sketches, Vespa

Building Blocks, French Boxes & Bell Towers

March 17, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

THURSDAY MARCH 14 2013 I knew people would groan when they arrived. Nothing forgiving about perspective. Just so happens if you don’t have some idea about how it goes you’ll forever wonder why your buildings don’t look quite right. With different sized boxes on one table, we had the kids building blocks made into a sort of church on the other. I had a demo sketch on the whiteboard, which helps see the direction the lines go. Most people had […]

Categories: Art, Drawings & Sketches, Line & Watercolour, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching architecture, Sketching Classes, Sketching techniques • Tags: Bell tower, Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Quick Watercolours, Travel 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

Paperbags & Windmills

February 3, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

Our first classes for 2013 are off to a flying start after our long summer break. So take a look at what our sketchers achieved this week, including several new people. THURSDAY JAN 31 ’13 Some of our class are still away, so the new kids in school had my full attention. Who would have thought that paperbags, string and scissors would be a sketch. It meant your shapes could be a little taller or wider and it would still look […]

Categories: Art, Art School, Line & Watercolour, Out & About Sketch Classes, Plein air painting, Sketching Classes • Tags: Friday, Line drawing with Watercolour, Saturday, Sketch, Sketches, watercolour, Windmill

Two Wuffy Dogs

January 14, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

Amelie is our 13yr old Shi-itzu. Ruby the 6yr old Westie comes to stay, and it all changes. Amelie can’t be bothered. Not you again? How long you planning on staying? You sleep in my bed, you try to eat my dinner. You know you annoy me when I’m sleeping. Hey now you’re here – you wanna play. I’m going to jump on your head and push you over. Then I’m going to bite your ear. Then we might get […]

Categories: Art, Line & Watercolour, Sketching, Sketching Dogs • Tags: Amélie, Animal Sketches, Line drawing with Watercolour, Ruby, Sketches

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