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 1 Term 1 ’18. Looking for Shape

February 3, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our first week of term and back to sketching with a hiss and a roar. I’m sure everyone had a big lie down after their classes. Never has our right brain worked so hard, seeing past what we know and deconstructing our subjects into shapes. Intro classes studied how to make objects in nature into simple shapes. Then how to get that onto a page! Toss in some colour and……there it is. Laneways and alleyways was the subject for Travel […]

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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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Sketching Holiday Vietnam

December 23, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

December 1 – December 14 2017 Oi Choi Oi! (Vietnamese for OMG) It’s been less than a week since my return and I’m working hard at losing the 2 kgs of Vietnamese noodles and condensed milk coffees I managed to sneak through customs around my midriff, before the Festive Season of Indulgence truely kicks in. What a wonderful introduction to travelling with sketchers, our trip to Hoi An was for me! We arrived as strangers and left as friends. In […]

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Week10 Term4. Adventures in Colour

December 16, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Well we have just completed 10 wonderful weeks of Travel Sketching together. New Sketchers have achieved so much over the weeks and you are now ready to move into full Travel Sketching Classes. Your tutors are delighted to see how much confidence you now have. Our regular Travel Sketchers have flexed their brushes and gone way outside the envelope. You’ve let go of fear and played with line and colour in ways you never thought you could. From all of […]

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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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Week9 Term4. Nature’s Bounty

December 9, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Week 9 and what a gorgeous week for nature and colour. New Sketchers were looking at Intrinsic shape in fruit and veggies. General students were trying out the many ways of capturing the beauty of the bloom. Some gorgeous results. MANLY TUESDAY GENERAL DEC 5 ’17 We almost turned the studio into a florist today. Lots of gorgeous blooms to inspire but first a review of watercolor techniques, layering washes, wet on wet, and aquarelles for definition. So many creative […]

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Student Exhibition 2017

December 2, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a gorgeous evening we had at our favourite spot on North Head, gazing across the National Park towards Sydney town, as the sun went down. What a wonderful gathering too of students family and friends, all there to celebrate the work on display. Some of our very early students (2012) were in attendance, as were some who are in their first term. Such a variety of styles this year and so many different techniques and colour. A lot of […]

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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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