Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: March 11, 2012
Managed to get to Sketch Club today. I can do the Sunday ones if all the stars are aligned. This was a very appealing place to sketch. Everyone met in front of the Art Gallery NSW and trotted down the steps to Woolloomooloo. How about that for a place name! It’s aboriginal but I need [...]
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 11, 2012
Well this is different. For me anyway. By using a sketch as the reference, which I’d done on location at Balmoral Beach, I decided to block it in using my acrylics straight onto 300gsm Arches Aquarelle. Interesting how you get a slightly illustrative look, because it’s already that way in the sketch. Also has a [...]
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 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: December 25, 2011
The Sun is out. Perhaps beginning to go down. It is 6.22pm. What a difference the sunshine makes. This is the day before Christmas. People go at dawn to the Seafood market, as fish and Seafood is one of our revered Christmas Day meals. Of course we still follow tradition and have Turkey, ham or [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: December 9, 2011
It was absolutely pouring when I left home – dressed in my raincoat, hoping my hair wouldn’t go curly. Got to Bacino bar where we’d meet up for our Sketch class. They have an outdoor area outside the doors to the cafe, with proper French tables and woven chairs. Very chic! and because that’s where [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: December 5, 2011
Another of some sketches I’d done when staying with Joanna in Paris. We stayed in this tiny 7th floor studio before moving to Beaumarchais the following week, and where we’d be for a month or so. I wasn’t paying much attention to sketching at this time, and did only a few – which I now [...]
Posted by: ErinHillArt.Travel Journal on: November 30, 2011
We are getting very good at smiling through the rain. I like everyone to be able to sketch anywhere, anytime but….. some old fashioned sunshine would be nice. Is anyone listening up there? So it was that we headed for the Manly Art Gallery to sketch any exhibits which caught our eye, but especially the [...]
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