Sketching Steps & Escape Stairs

August 9, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

New Sketchers. 10am Tuesday August 5’14. It’s a sunny day, which means it must be our sketching day! We always seem to land on the lucky lottery with weather for our ‘New Sketchers group’.  We have a full house today, and I’m delighted to have Karen and Toni on board to observe and help with the tutoring for this large group. The setups this week continue to look more challenging than the last. We’re focusing on ‘stairways’ and we have […]

Categories: Art, Manly Sketches, Sketching architecture, Travel Sketching • Tags: Composition & Colour, Eiffel Tower, Location Sketches, Travel Sketching

Saturday Travel Sketching Workshops for Everyone

August 8, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

‘NOT NEW TO SKETCHING’ WITH JUDY – Book now, just 2 weeks away for the next one. See Judy’s last Workshop SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13TH 10AM – 4PM. ‘SKETCHING FOR FUN, AND SOME WATERCOLOUR TRICKS’  $125 …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. ‘NEW TO SKETCHING’ WITH ERIN – Book now for one or all 3. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH 10AM – 4PM.  ‘A TASTE OF SKETCHING’ – A BEGINNERS OR REFRESHER WORKSHOP IN MANLY.  $125. SATURDAY OCTOBER 18TH 10AM – 4PM.  ‘ SKETCHING WHAT YOU SEE’  A WALK & SKETCH […]

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Sketching Design, Packaging & Signage

August 2, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

New Sketchers. 10am Tuesday July 29 ’14.  Everybody is in a sunny mood when they arrive for our 3rd week of travel sketching. We seem to back to sunny days again. Christy welcomes everyone and Karen is there to assist. The setups this week look more challenging than they are. Big words, small type, borders, colour and patterns. Yikes. A colourful collection of household products ranging from a gorgeous large olive oil can to a tiny Tobasco bottle, with all […]

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Saturday Sketch Workshop with Judy. July 26th

July 28, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

‘LETTING GO WITH YOUR SKETCHING & WATERCOLOUR’ Workshop with Judy. I had been very busy planning our first workshop this term and had plenty in store for those unsuspecting sketchers. We all met in Nominom, a shocking pink building on the beachfront, easy to spot from a mile away.  The owner was most obliging as he had put together some tables for us upstairs and it was a truly colourful place to be, like having our own psychedelic studio by […]

Categories: Art, Manly Beach, Manly Sketches, Sketch Workshops, Sketching architecture, Sketching houses, Travel Sketching Workshop, watercolour • Tags: Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Travel Sketching

Sketching – The Way we Were.

June 28, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY CLASSES COMBINED 10AM. JUNE 26 ’14 After the high winds we’ve had for 2 days, it was back to blue and lovely for our Sketching class. Christy and I decided we’d combine our classes, as several sketchers have completed their course, or away for the holidays, so it made sense. We are a great team, and the sketchers get double the love. We had a lovely big group and much chatter and laughter took place before we settled into […]

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Early Easter Sketching Week

April 5, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

  THURSDAY APRIL 3 ’14  –  GROUP 1 “Hello, its Christy here” and our first group of sketchers are arriving, excited to see what is in store for them today. Easter is in store for us, wrapped up in bows and foil, with chubby cheeked bunnies and cute little chicks. We sketched two lovely Easter themed still lives in the studio today. We talked about how to make good use of the chinograph when we are sketching ‘shiny’ objects like […]

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Sketching. Ripples and Reflections

March 22, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY 10AM CLASS.  MARCH 20 2014. More blue skies. Great that we decided to do water and reflections this week. We have lots to cover during a term and water and the way it moves and reflects is a very important lesson, given that we are surrounded by it. Our still life setups are goggles and snorkle with sea shells, the other a beach towel with shells. We need to remember to measure the shape you see. Good to have […]

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Sketching Down Mexico Way

March 15, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY MARCH 13 2014. 10am Class. This week we’ve travelled from last week’s cool climate of Scandinavia to  the hot climate and colours of Mexico. We’ve sketched brightly coloured fruit and vegetable still life’s and enjoyed pouring colour one over the other and seeing the pigments work. Using the china graph to scribble in your whites is a great timesaver. You can freely add your colour and know that the white will be maintained as you sweep your colour in. […]

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Start With Your Eye Level

March 1, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY FEB 27 10am class Week 4 begins. We didn’t believe it was going to rain. Reports for days said it would. I like to look at the sky and clouds and work it out myself. It might matter a teeny bit if we got rain because we’re doing perspective from a high pathway, looking down over rooftops and beyond. But of course we would first start in the Studio  with our warm sketches of Frenchboxes and building blocks. We talked […]

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