Week 7 Term 2. Sketching in the Rain

June 9, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday 9th June, 2018 Sketching in the rain – I hear that’s what you’ve all been doing! Seems that’s what it’s been for our students in both hemispheres. So plenty of singing, um… sketching. You’re going to see a huge variety of work this week – from botanicals to perspective. Some classes are a week earlier, some later, so it makes for very interesting viewing seeing the subjects and styles everyone has. Enjoy. Tuesday Manly Travel Sketching with Toni Manly Evening […]

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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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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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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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