Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: February 16, 2012
I may well be able to get back to the Studio. Weddings, moving house, a little eye surgery and intermittent internet, certainly creates a hiccup when one has a major exhibition on the horizon. I did get the line sketch onto the acrylic under painting for the metre square Balmoral feature work however. It’s in [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: January 19, 2012
This one began life as a little sketch I did while sitting on the steps in the sun, at Manly Cove. It’s 2nd life was when the colour was applied and it became a greeting card and print. Third time lucky was the large line & watercolour sketch I did recently. But it’s luck ran [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: January 7, 2012
An entirely different work from the previous ‘Intense Colour Sketch’. Again based on a sketch done at Balmoral Beach when sketching one day, this was about 5pm in the afternoon. People were beginning to spread out their picnics and rugs and get out the crisp white wine. Tonight at 8pm sharp would be a performance [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: January 5, 2012
I’m trying some serious colour for a new series of sketches. Done on 300gsm Aquarelle Arches. Good solid strong colour. Mask off the area and get the acrylic paint ready. Because I’m looking through my sketches for good compositions I don’t need to do any drawing or indications on the paper at all. I like [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: January 1, 2012
The sun was streaming through curtains and woke me. 6.15am on the first day of ‘Next Year’. Time to get my ‘wake up’ cuppa tea. Wow, it’s glorious out there. I can hear cicadas and tweety chirpy birds, happy chat from early risers walking off their Christmas pudding, a boat engine as chaps go fishing. [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: November 25, 2011
For me this is a larger work. 16 X 18 inches or thereabouts. Now doing some bigger watercolours in this sketch style. Weddings are very much part of the scene at Balmoral Beach, particularly on weekends. There were 7 groups having photos taken in the rotunda, and on the bridge to the Island when I [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: October 25, 2011
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, [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: October 19, 2011
I knew there was something not quite complete about ‘Green Shutters 1′. The thing I like about having work hanging in the Studio, is that sometimes you know something needs doing but don’t know what. Everything has been moved around now that the Exhibition is over and sold paintings gone. So it was a chance [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: September 24, 2011
A little bit French. But of course. If you think you’ve seen this painting from me before – well you have – and you haven’t! This is a textured canvas I’d created when I first had a go at some mixed media acrylics awhile back. Since then it’s probably had at least 5 paintings on [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: August 24, 2011
Back to 12 inch square canvases. I love them. Alissa (from Sketchclub) and I met for lunch one glorious day recently, and wandered along to the kiosk at Oceanworld in Manly . As we were chatting I could see these two little ones playing in the shallow water on the beach just below us. Their [...]
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