Term 4. Week 6. Perspective, People and Statues

November 20, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Welcome to week 6 of our last term of the year. Amazing statues, and fabulous perspective sketching await your eyes. Take a look… Tuesday Manly General Wow, what a day. Thanks so much to Clive & Johannes at Australian Bronze (The Artist Precinct, North Head, Manly) for a talk on sculptor Anton Smit, a tour of the gallery, coffee and a wonderful location to sketch. Your sketches reflect the scale and drama of Smit’s incredible sculptures. Lots colour, texture and […]

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Term 4. Week 5. Mauve Madness

November 13, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Welcome to week 5 of the Erin Hill Travel Sketchers. The gorgeous Sydney jacarandas are out and Spring is well and truly here for our sketching enjoyment. New Sketchers learnt all about flat perspective this week. Bravo everybody. Tuesday Manly General Mauve madness this week, a great opportunity to play with cerulean blue, permanent rose and a touch of purple lake. Wet the page, layer some pigment and watch the magic happen on the page. Loose and lively. Ivanhoe Park […]

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Term 4. Week 4. Travel Sketching is Fun.

November 6, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

We hold classes at Erin Hill Sketching that always involve happiness and fun. We learn new skills, we concentrate and try hard, but we always enjoy each others company, as well as exploring our local areas. Take a look at what we did this week. Tuesday Manly General Birds-eye view today or perhaps we should say Water Dragon view? The sun was shining and the aquamarine ocean provided a stunning backdrop. We started by discussing perspective looking down, how things […]

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Term 4. Week 3. Embellishments and Water Scenes

October 28, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Hello everybody, we are in week 3 already. We have a had a week full of new skills being practiced, and for some classes, new tools being introduced. General students discovered the joy of embellishing their sketch pages. Tuesday Manly General ‘Permission to Play’ was today’s theme with lettering our focus. You could have heard a pin drop. So much concentration. Sketchers chose headings, title pages, quotes and embellished old sketch book pages. It was lovely to have time in […]

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Term 4 has begun!

October 16, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Term 4 has begun, with New sketchers learning all about the joys of Travel Sketching the Erin Hill way, and returning students continuing with class mates whom have now become friends, as they delve deeper into the fascinating and fun world of Sketching. Tuesday Manly General  Everything is interesting when you sketch it, even broccoli and cauliflower! We had a great time settling into class taking time to really observe detail, texture and tone. We developed our skills in hatching, […]

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Our last class for term 3, 2017

September 24, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

As always, we have a celebratory class when we reach our last class for the term.  A fabulous location is chosen, and we celebrate. We have achieved so much during term. For some it was the first tentative steps of making our marks on paper, for others we have continued to sketch whilst life goes on around us. We have made new friends, had many wonder filled experiences and our life as sketchers makes life well worth living! See many […]

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Term 3 week 9. Seascapes, water and intrinsic shapes

September 18, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

We are almost at the end of term. Can you believe it’s here already? Where did the time go? What vast improvements can be seen in this weeks sketches. It all seems to come together in the last few weeks. Take a look and see. Manly Tuesday General One of those gorgeous spring days, no wind! Over coffee we prepared our paints, lots of thumbnail swatches of colour and chinagraph to build our confidence before heading out. A huge vista, […]

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Term 3, Week 8. Bikes and Sketching our days…

September 11, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a gorgeous week we had. Out and about, sketching bikes and for the general classes, sketching our days, learning new skills around journalling and telling a story with our sketches. Manly Tuesday General This week it’s all about travel vignettes. How to capture small snapshots of a place, small details that help describe what you see and experience. We talked about page layout and the impact of white space on the page. Lovely work, you’ve definitely told the Manly […]

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Term 3. Week 7. people, fashion and mannequins.

September 4, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a week of people sketching. New Sketchers learnt new skills sketching people for the first time, and the General classes took to the shopping districts to sketch mannequins, fashion and shop windows. Manly Tuesday General We discovered today that mannequins are a great way to practise people & fashion, AND mannequins don’t move away like real people do. Lots of colour and movement in your sketches, I think you even surprised yourselves, yes, you can sketch people and they […]

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