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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More Under the Tuscan Sun

September 23, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday September 20 ’14 Some even set their alarms to be out of the house by 8.15am!  We were going by train to Lucca, and we couldn’t be late.  Our yummy breakfast was taken a little earlier, but somehow we managed to all be ready, even remembering our sketching gear. The whistle of the train as it approaches the little country station and even those with various hip and knee replacements, pull themselves up those high steps onto the train. […]

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Sketching Ourselves and other Characters

August 30, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

New Sketchers. 12noon Monday August 25 ’14 This is a series of 3 classes for some keen sketchers who we couldn’t squeeze into our weekly classes – so it’s a bit of a ‘special’ really. For our two brand new sketchers it was a little nerve -wracking, as you begin to wonder as you step into the Studio if this was all just a bad idea. Me sketch! What! Never have been before so why do I think I can […]

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Sketching Teapots & Windmills

August 23, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Just a few observations I’d like to talk about as we complete week 6. With every group each term, this is about the time some may begin to worry that you are not progressing.   Not everybody, but some.   Somehow it seems harder.  But you are not alone. This is how many feel and worry they are the only one. We do plateau at a point where we think it should be easier.  We are asking more of ourselves, so we […]

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Sketching Banksia Men and Bush Babies

August 16, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our title this week refers to May Gibbs sketches of native bush seeds and flowers. New Sketchers. 10am Tuesday August 12’14. I thought I’d definitely jinxed myself mentioning how we always ‘win the lucky lotto weather’ last week. But somehow we ‘do’ always end up with glorious weather!  Today was no different. It was forecast to rain most of the day, and so we’d all arrived with rain pelting down and shook off our umbrellas. But miraculously during our time […]

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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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Term 3 Begins. Observing Nature.

July 19, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

New Sketchers. 10am Tuesday July 15. ’14 Welcome back everybody. To kick off Term 3, your tutors have made some changes to the classes by listening to you our sketchers. We have 3 levels for you, from New Sketchers, General, and Advanced. We’ve also added monthly workshops for those who’d love a full day immersed in doing what they love. Many of you who are travelling or cannot commit to a full term are excited about these. A very excited group […]

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Week 10. Water, Reflections, Houseboats and Plonk

July 5, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY, NEW SKETCHERS & GENERAL. 10AM. JULY 3 ’14 Well what a cracker of a day for our last days of Term 2. We are sketching at a narrow neck of beach and boating called The Spit.  Connecting two suburbs is a bridge which rises in the centre to allow passing boats to go from one side to the other. It’s always fascinating to watch unless you happen to be the one impatiently waiting in your car to get across. […]

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Advanced Sketching beside the Seaside

July 5, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

ADVANCED SKETCHING. 10AM FRIDAY JULY 4 ’14 This weather is remarkable. Only because it’s Winter but behaving like Summer.  Just love it. Makes you so alive. Specially when you’re going sketching! Judy and I had our two classes together today, but we each did our own thing,  although we’re working within the same location. The Advanced Sketchers were trying another new way to sketch. We were putting down mixed colours in watercolour then doing our black line sketch over that when […]

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