Week8. Term1. Shape in an Urban Environment and Fruit

March 25, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sketching Week 8, Term 1. Saturday March 25 ’17 It doesn’t seem to matter which country in the world you talk to people in, they too have had big changes in weather. We changed our program once again to keep all our sketchers dry! A fancy shopping centre was our Studio this week. Warringah Mall in Sydney has been all flossied up and now a pretty smart place. Sketching shapes in an interior were our mission for General classes. So if you […]

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Week7 Term1. People Shapes & Glass

March 18, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

MANLY CLASSES Week 7 and another big week. Big rain. Big sketching challenges. Big progress New Sketchers have just discovered that ‘People sketching’ is not as terrifying as they’d thought. Everything, even human formS are shapes. It’s just a matter of seeing them. And ‘see’ they did. We keep our exercises very quick. Get your book, eye and pen ready and go go go. Some classes tried ‘contour sketching’ – sketching your person without looking at the page. We loved […]

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Sketch&Wine. Fast & Loose Faces

March 11, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sketch&Wine. Wednesday March 8 ’17 Our sketch and wine on Wednesday night began with all of us attempting portraits of each other using sticks and coloured ink. We went over the basic measurements for sketching the human face in profile and front on. Why? Because once we know the basics we are better able to judge how our subject’s features should be sketched. Is the face longer, thinner than normal? Is the mouth wider? The chin pointier? Hopefully, the exercises in […]

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Adventure Class.The Secret Garden

February 24, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Thursday 23rd February Adventure Sketch to Lavender Bay. We met in the shade under the iconic Luna Park Face and immediately began sketching those massive eyebrows, teeth and lips. The more you study it, the creepier that face gets, more Batman Joker than Happy Go Lucky Clown we decided. Still fun to sketch. Only Robyn bucked the trend and faced the other direction, sketching the bridge, harbour and Opera House instead. At one stage I looked up and there was […]

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Chocolate Truffle Workshop

February 10, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

  Sketch&Bake. Truffle Sketching Workshop Day. Monday February 6 ’17 We’ve been planning these day classes with Anna, our chef, baker and Sketch tutor for a while. Every two months we’ll do a different food and sketch experience for you. This Workshop was very much looked forward to by our foodie Sketchers. A big day. An early start. Sharpening our experience as public transport commuters. Beginning the day some sketched from the moment the journey began. The bus to town. […]

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New Sketchers Workshop. Dec4’16

December 9, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday December 4 ’16 Toni our tutor, had found some gorgeous red hibiscus growing nearby as our very first sketch of the day. On arrival people look at that rather blankly when we say ‘That will be our first sketch’ utterly disbelieving that the impossible is about to happen. That within an hour it will be on their sketchbook page. Viola who has sketched with us before was doing a refresher and impressed us by sharing her sketchbook, full of lovely […]

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Week7 Term4. Traditional buildings & People Action

November 26, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our classes offer such diversity these days. With day, evening, mid morning classes for both New and General Sketchers, the subject of the week may be set, but it’s how each class goes about it that creates such interest when you see all of the work together. You’ll see sketches of complex Federation architecture alongside early Australian cottage styles. We sketched montages of figure forms in action followed by people sketching in cafes. For our evening class it was sketching by […]

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Week6.Term4. Looking for Eye Level

November 19, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

EHS SYDNEY WEEK 6 TERM 4 ’16 Week 6 and we are now seeing our own styles come shining through. You only have your own style as you know, so embrace it. Other influences may be there but there’s only one you. We’ve covered a big variety of subjects this week. New Sketchers were into eye level perspective, the very key to everything you’ll need to know when sketching urban landscapes. The concept is easy to grasp once we lead you through […]

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Week3 Term 2. Water & People

May 14, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our subjects this week. Sailing and backward people. Not ‘that’ backward – just people back on! Different subjects indeed. For New Sketchers we’re beginning to look at composition in your still life and the sailing scene on location was a great place to start. Placing your shapes in a way to keep your focus on the page, rather than falling off. Colours of the sea in watercolour pencil is the other mission this week. Keeping your colour round your subjects […]

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