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Heaven, Easter Saturday

An Everlasting Weekend

March 31, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

It’s all a bit confusing having Easter in late March. Usually I know exactly what day it is when I wake. Now each of the 4 days feels like Saturday, or is it Sunday? Not that I don’t enjoy having some spare days to think about the world a little. Cos I do. No clock watching. Just do as you wish and if it’s not finished there’s still tomorrow. Easter is a religious celebration, and that for many is a […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Food Sketching, Manly Beach, Sketching, Sketching Chocolat, Waterscapes • Tags: Chocolate, Easter, Easter Moon, Easter Sketch, Holiday

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Dinner waiting al fresco.

The Importance of the Dining Table

January 6, 2013 by ErinHill Sketching

I’ve been having some interesting conversations lately about this subject…. We are having such beautiful evenings of late. It is warm and the aroma of scented flowers wafts in the air. We don’t eat till later now with daylight saving, so there’s nothing nicer than sitting on the outdoor seating watching the sun slowly go down. This sketch was done as the sky and sea were changing from bright colour and becoming pale and smokey. The middle distance hills were […]

Categories: Art, Colours of the night, Family & Friends, Food & Wine, Food Sketches, Observing the Light, Sketching, Waterscapes • Tags: Dining room, Eating, Family values, Food, table

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Thurs Nov 22. Perfume & Wooden hands

Perfume,Hands,Streets & Boats

November 24, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

Our Sketching Week. Nov 22,23,24.  An excellent week for our sketchers. Take a look. THURSDAY NOV 22 ’12 I love the new wooden hands they had in my Art store. One is slightly larger than the other so having two together is a great sketch for people. The two hands are not forgiving if you don’t observe well before starting your sketch. And seeing I sketched my new perfume yesterday, that was the inspiration for the other choice today. Both […]

Categories: Art, Beach Paintings, Manly Beach, Perfume Sketch, Sketching Classes, Travelling & Painting, Waterscapes • Tags: Beach Views, Christmas, Harbour happenings, Manly, Perfume, Sketches, Travel Sketching, Water views

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Blue Yonder

Acrylic Line & Wax Crayon on Canvas

September 27, 2012 by ErinHill Sketching

Something new. Just to show that when we are between Sketch Class terms, that things are buzzing in the Studio. I now feel that the new line sketch technique is working well and this one is very pleasing. I have a variety of pens I can use on larger works like this, and using white  water solouble crayon means I can pick up little areas of white. More coming soon. Oh this one in in the SHOP now. ©ErinHill2012

Categories: Acrylic & line painting, Art Materials, Harbour action, Studio Paintings, Waterscapes • Tags: Acrylic paint, Canvas, Crayon, Harbour happenings, Water views

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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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Tropical Manly 2

Tropical Manly 2

October 25, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I seem to be on a roll at the moment. Another acrylic painting has just been perked up. Perhaps I’m clearer now about how I want these decorative acrylics to look. I didn’t think the softer colours worked as well  on this one as the new added brights. I’ve kept the ‘lost edges’ though. Yes, it’s definitely stopping people while it’s in the window. The other paintings can stop quaking for the moment as I’m part way through a layered […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Beach Paintings, Waterscapes • Tags: Acrylic paint, Beach Views, Water views

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Whales in the Bay

Whales in the Bay

October 17, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

Just the usual morning. Get the dogs ready to walk. Get me ready to walk. Off we go. What’s that black shape out in the bay? It’s not a boat, not a bird, not a dolphin. OMG it’s a whale – two actually.  Looks like a big one and baby. Awwwwwww. Cute. Suddenly people stop each other to point them out. Excitement, pointing, smiling. Conversations about which way they’re going, how graceful  they are, did you see them last week […]

Categories: Acrylic Painting, Art, Harbour action, Plein air painting, The little things in Life, Waterscapes • Tags: Acrylic paint, Harbour happenings, Square Canvas, Water views

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Waiting for the Ferry

Sketching Australian Botanicals

October 9, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

It was a Sketchclub Meetup at The Botanical Gardens. Off I went quite early to grab a coffee and catch the ferry. As it turns out I had a few spare minutes to do a quick sketch of the view from the wharf. Might as well get the eye/hand coordination going before meeting the others. It was nice really. The Ferry men just waiting around to tie up the next ferry – my ferry. Quiet and peaceful on this early Saturday. […]

Categories: Art, Harbour action, Line & Watercolour, Observing the Light, Quick Sketches, Waterscapes • Tags: Australian Garden, Botanical garden, Ficus Macrophylla, Garden, Line drawing with Watercolour

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The 6am Ferry

The 6am Ferry

September 19, 2011 by ErinHill Sketching

I must be getting up early these mornings! Perhaps because it’s light by 6am, and I’m seeing some glorious sunrises out the window as I head towards my ‘must have’ cuppa tea. I don’t function till I have that! Loved this one, being so soft and pale. Just a few lines and a wash of gentle colours and there it was. I might need some early nights with all this excitement in the mornings! ©ErinHill2011

Categories: Art to Eat, Observing the Light, Pastel, Sketches, Sunrises, Waterscapes • Tags: art, Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Painting the essence, Sketches, Soft colour

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