Sunday Workshop. Sketching & Simple Colour

February 18, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday February 18 ’18 Another glorious Sydney day. How do we cope! coming along to one of very enjoyable ‘Taste of Sketching’ Workshops helps a lot. Once we get started with observing our subject, we’re quite unaware of what might be happening out there in the world!  We’re very busy observing only what’s in front of us. Sketching is one of these wonderful moments in time where you are completely immersed in playing with line and colour. Totally in the […]

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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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Holiday Sketching

January 12, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 10 ’18 What will the weather do today? That question is getting harder to answer. I used to be able to count on gorgeous days whenever we sketched, but lately someone isn’t playing by the rules. Well fine. We’ll get on with sketching and ignore what’s coming out of the sky. A couple of found items today became our sketches over coffee. I’d picked a delicate flannel flower on the track earlier, including the leaves, so we could […]

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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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Sketch&Lunch-Vietnamese

November 3, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

This month our Sketch&Lunch was held in Cabramatta featuring Vietnamese food. It was a rare scorcher of a day, and things certainly heated up in the markets! I took our students to one of the older more authentic cafes for a Ca Phe Sua Da (Vietnamese iced coffee). Here we sketched Vietnamese herbs. We tasted , touched and smelt them first, then leant what the Vietnamese names were for them. Next we headed to Eastland Supermarket where my friend Thai […]

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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. Week 2. Vistas and Round Objects

October 23, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Welcome to the second week of Term 4. The weather is warming up, and many of us have been enjoying getting out and sketching the fabulous scenes Sydney has to offer. Take a look at what the classes accomplished this week. Tuesday Manly General A beautiful class spent at North Harbour Reserve. Coffee at 40 Beans Cafe set us up for a quick sketch of the cafe or cottage. Then it was off to the waters edge to sketch the […]

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