The latest EHS Watercolour Set

January 12, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

  I’ve had this in mind for awhile. When the more experienced sketchers reach a point that maybe, just maybe, there are other paint colours with a variety of pigment strengths out there busting to be tried, we need to have an answer. I have been trying the St-Petersburg extra fine artists’ watercolours. Known as White Nights. What! you may say. We only use the very reliable Cotmans watercolour set. And we certainly do, and will continue to, with it’s […]

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A Taste of Sketching. Sunday Dec 10

December 10, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a glorious Sydney Sunday we woke to. Eight enthusiast sketchers arrived at the Studio right on 10am, ready to meet each other and enjoy a tea or coffee. Most people have had little sketching experience and it’s something about the freedom of it, plus the ‘only pleasing yourself’ approach which appeals. We started with the lovely pink hibiscus and learning how to plan our page and observe the whole still life as shape and form. What great results from […]

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Sunday New Sketchers Workshop

November 27, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Another New Sketchers Workshop on Sunday December 10 ’17

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Week7 Term4. Cafes & Sausage People

November 26, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a great week this one was. Both New and General were sketching people doing whatever they do in Cafes. Sausage people are how we get started when it’s our first try with this subject. Makes it so much more manageable to see people this way. And talk about laugh! so much fun Tuesday Manly General  Exploring gorgeous sidewalk cafes in Manly today although it felt like we could have been in France, Italy or Greece. Coffee at Hakan’s Cafe […]

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Term 2. Week 8. Flowers and Bicycles and all things nice.

June 17, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Welcome to a wonderful new week of sketching again. Anna from the Blue Mountains branch reporting whilst Erin is in France, leading her joy filled Erin Hill Sketch Holidays. First class of the week was in the crisp Blue mountains. Tuesday New Sketchers class. This week was about seeing everyday objects with our new sketchers eyes. We headed to The Hydro Majestic in Medlow Bath for spectacular views and a spacious cafe. There’s a rattan bike hanging on the wall, […]

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Summer Sketching. Sand & Scones

December 29, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Tuesday December 27 & Thursday December 29 ’16 Some of us met at Manly Cove on Tuesday to catch up after our Christmas day outings, have a lot of laughs and oh yes, to sketch. Today we’d be using elements of the view in front of us, and placing them where we wanted. Using imagination to create the scene as we wished rather than as it looks in real life. Getting the essence in other words. It’s a fun exercise. Takes a […]

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Anzac Day Sketching Intensives

April 25, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

MELBOURNE INTENSIVE. Saturday April 25 ’15 with Erin Hill Looking out onto the Melbourne cityscape at first light, the very thing we hoped not to have – rain. It’s Anzac Day.   For sketching it’s always good to have blue skies.   Clearly we’d be moving to Plan B. So ‘Parks and Gardens’ at Flagstaff Gardens became ‘Coffee, flowers and Leaves’ at Pegasus Hotel. Our Studio for the day was the enormous restaurant with lovely big tables, at Pegasus Hotel […]

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Sketching Week 6. Ingredients & Fresh Food.

March 14, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

For our New Sketchers on Monday, it was Week 1. First sketches of flowers and trees. Looking at shapes, looking at colour. Getting light and dark. Great work all. Finishing at one of our favourite cafes, Belgrave Cartel with very impressive coffee sketches and having thoroughly enjoyed themselves. For all other classes it was week 6, so we did a little revising of our skills, with a very appealing Indian Cooking ingredients setup for inspiration. A couple of old lanterns […]

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