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

French Living – a new mag for Francophiles

October 19, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

I recently discovered FRENCH LIVING magazine through Marilyn & Steve in South of France. It’s quite new so I decided to subscribe. Just loved my first issue as I think many of you will. If you travel there, spend time there, own property there, or plan to – then this is a great read. Some of us travel there quite often and plan to spend more and more time in France, so it feels like a local newspaper with that […]

Categories: French Living Magazine, Local Foods, Painting in France, Paris, Sketching in France, Sketching in Paris • Tags: France, French Magazines, Marais, Sofitel

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Re-visit the Rhone Alpes France

April 5, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

The reach of the internet is a wondrous thing. Somebody had seen the earlier painting of these toll houses and asked to buy the original. Absolutely. We had some correspondence and a smaller size was decided. If you live in an old cottage in Dorset, wall space is limited by beams, doorways, staircases, chimneys and more. And it doesn’t need to be mailed. The client is visiting Sydney so will pop in and pick up the finished painting. Easy. I […]

Categories: Art, Family & Friends, Painting in France, Plein air painting, watercolour • Tags: France, Location Sketches, Original Watercolour

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Open Night for Friends and Neighbours

December 9, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

It was a jolly occasion. 6.30 – 8.30 sharp. Pop in, have some crisp Rosé or Pinot Gris from Kira’s family vineyard. Anything you purchase tonight is 10% off. And they did. This was the 3 of us in the Studio saying to the World ‘hello we are here’. Red Olive 2 doors up did the same, which meant we could both take your money – (and give you great value.) We had such a good time, and […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Great coffee, Impressionists, Painting in France • Tags: Acrylic paint, Café de Flore, Composition & Colour, Paris, Paris Icon, Soft colour

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Painted in Southern France

June 18, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

Painted on location in Southern France. 300gsm A3 size. The 2 line drawings I showed the other day were the working drawings I did from the doorway of the Summer Kitchen. In the end I decided on the old iron bed with the 2 periwinkle blue doors behind. My heart just soars when I see this perfect little French setting, the sun high and hot in a clear blue sky and happy chirps breaking the silence. So i have finally […]

Categories: Painting holidays, Painting in France, Watercolour Painting • Tags: Painting the essence, Soft colour, Watercolour painting in France

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Stone Cottages of Trausse

June 17, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

This is about it. Last of the drawings but not of two paintings I’ve yet to show. Both in the Summer Kitchen Garden and in my newer look. La Remise is where Marilyn and Steve live for half the year. Summer in France, and summer in Australia. Nice way to have it. This was the old barn and is now a gorgeous home where they work, looking after their 3 stone cottages and the people staying, plus entertain their myriad […]

Categories: Drawings & Sketches, Gorgeous places to stay, Painting in France • Tags: Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketches, watercolour

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The Importance of Being from Somewhere Else

June 15, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

This is just fabulous. Here we are being photographed in Chantal’s garden and this appeared in the local paper this week. As I’d said earlier, the idea of Jackie bringing overseas painters to their village is giving the locals a real sense of pride. If this happened in our own backyard it wouldn’t make a ripple at all. So we are almost famous. Left to right – Connie, Glenys, Erin, Karen, Niki, Ellen, Nancy and Jackie ( with Paloma the […]

Categories: My Artist Friends, Painting holidays, Painting in France • Tags: Rural French Gardens, Travelling Painters

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Vide Grenier (Clear out your Attic)

June 14, 2010 by ErinHill Sketching

Normally the little main street of Trausse is quiet. People would be getting their bits and pieces and baguettes from the only supermarche in town, passing and greeting one another in the polite way of the French. Today was Vide Grenier and everyone was excited. A yearly chance to empty out the attic and a chance pick up someone else’s unwanted treasures. The main street was bursting with stalls the whole way along. An unbelievable sight. Marilyn and Steve were […]

Categories: Drawings & Sketches, Painting in France, The little things in Life • Tags: Drawing, French antiques, Quick Watercolours

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Category Archives: Painting in France

New version of Original French Sketch

The Book that Started it all

French Living – a new mag for Francophiles

Re-visit the Rhone Alpes France

Open Night for Friends and Neighbours

Painted in Southern France

Stone Cottages of Trausse

The Importance of Being from Somewhere Else

Vide Grenier (Clear out your Attic)

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