Week 6 Term 2. Creating Stories

June 2, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 2nd June, 2018 This week our newer sketchers studied perspective and how that comes together. Our left brain thinks its impossible, but our right brain say’s ‘Oh that makes sense’. It’s quite an aha moment when you learn to see what goes up and what goes down. Some were studying flat perspective. A very decorative way to catch the character of a building but showing only the front. Our Travel Sketchers were channeling the very intriguing artist Juliana Coles. A […]

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Week 5 Term 2. Sketching Under the Influence.

May 26, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 26th May, 2018 This is our 5th week for Travel Sketchers looking at the influence of well known international sketchers. We were looking Veronica Lawlor, a US based sketcher/illustrator/mixed media artist and her use of strong line, pattern and design. This is what our students were observing and trying out in their own work where it suited. Intro Sketchers were studying flat perspective. A house or building from the front only. Working out the ‘box’ (a building is a […]

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Week 4 Term 2. Teapots, Paint and Hilarity

May 19, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 19th May, 2018 By week 4 we are well and truly immersed in our sketching progress. You will have a book full of lines, marks, swatches, colours, notes and fun sketches which are the results of practice practice and more practice. You’ll remember doing each and every one. And loving it. Teapots were big this week. Not only big but hilarious teapots too. We were channeling  Danny Gregory’s very amusing not too serious style. We were right into that. […]

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Week 3 Term 2. Victorian Architecture Influence

May 12, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 12th May, 2018 Our Intro sketchers are well on the way to seeing shape, form, and dimension. It’s water, sea and composition for this week. Quite a step up and everyone did a great job. For Travel Sketching we were taking a good look at one of our old favourites – the English artist David Gentleman. He has some wonderful sketches of parks, gardens and many Victorian style architecture. So our sketchers turned Federation to Victorian and did our […]

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Week 2 Term 2. Seeing Things Differently

May 5, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 5th May, 2018 This week our Intro Sketching classes were learning to layer colour simply and get dimension at the same time. For some of our Intro classes it was the first week so we were looking at shape and page planning. Those first essential ways to see your subject. Without deconstructing the shape of everything around you – somehow the sketch just doesn’t seem to work. Travel Sketching classes were under the influence of Tommy Kane, illustrator and […]

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Week 1 Term 2. Sketching What You See

April 28, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 28th April, 2018 We’re off again. First time sketchers have started with our essential ‘how to see’ your subject and already feel relived. They could actually follow their tutors guidance and magic happened on the page. Those who start next week – on May 2 – will do the same. Foe Travel Sketching we will be following the way some of our favourite sketch artists interpret their subjects. We have always enjoyed seeing how others see similar scenes as […]

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Sunday Workshop. People Faces and Figures

April 24, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday April 22 ’18 A smaller group this time due to some last minute postponements, but great for those who attended. We’d be doing a lot of looking at shape, page planning and use of simple colour, with as few as 3 colours. One of our more experienced sketchers took the chance to refresh this particular class and was delighted with the results. All out sketchers let go and had that pen racing around the page making delicious shapes and […]

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Week 10. Term 1. The Big Finale

April 7, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 7th April, 2018 Our big finale.  Classes were all over Sydney this week putting together all the skills they’ve learned over the term. These days we’re very inclined to use any medium which gets the look we want, from pure watercolour to big bold line. Mix it up we say. Take a look at some exciting results. Tuesday Rose Bay Introduction to Travel Sketching with Tammy. At Jewel on the Bay and Rose Bay foreshore. Manly Travel Sketching with […]

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Week 9. Term 1. Cement Mixers and Market Days.

March 31, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 31st March, 2018 Week 9. Oh my word. But we certainly had a great time with our subjects this week. We love a few fun subjects at this end of the term and you certainly responded. Look at those yummy food sketches. Sooo edible. Then there were those Cement Mixers which became the fun sketches of the week. Chuck it down, big lines, big colour. Wow. Tuesday Rose Bay Introduction to Travel Sketching with Tammy Manly Travel Sketching with […]

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