By George! Our New Sketching Term Starts Jolly Soon

April 18, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Pardon the pun, but we’re just so excited today. The young Royals are visiting Manly. Kate, William and baby by George. However let us not be distracted a minute longer as there are things you need to know. Do you like the idea of discovering parts of Manly you didn’t know existed? Would you like to try a different Manly cafe every week? Then you’d better sign up to our Out&about Sketch Classes – beginners to Advanced – at ErinHill Studio. All the […]

Categories: Advanced Sketch Classes, Art, Bright Colour, Compositions, Manly Beach, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Travel Sketching • Tags: Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Location Sketches, Travel Sketching

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. […]

Categories: Art, Local Foods, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Sketching in Manly, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Art as food, Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketches, Travel Sketching

Discovering Manly Cafes

March 3, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

My perfect life would be to live in new and favourite cafes, moving from one to the next. Actually that almost happened this morning. Adeline and I met up to plan our next Sketch&French classes. That was Belgrave Cartel which I love. Next Alissa was arriving on the ferry and we would be looking for a new one I’d been told about. Great timing. I dash to the wharf and there’s Alissa coming through the forecourt. We walk all the […]

Categories: Art, Food Sketching, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Sketching in Manly, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Food, Manly, Sketches, Travel Sketching

Sketching People in Action

February 22, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY 10am Class. FEBRUARY 20 ’14 Good morning to those who joined us in the early group this Thursday. When walking in the door, seeing the mannequins on the table, some wanted to walk straight back out again! Just teasing, I know sketching people can seem a little daunting, but as soon as you commit to your sketches, you soon discover it’s like sketching anything else, and it’s a matter of shapes and proportions. We have a new person today, […]

Categories: Art, Food Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting Techniques, Quick Sketches, Sketching Cafes, Travel Sketching • Tags: Beach Views, Line drawing with Watercolour, Travel Sketching

Valentine Sketching

February 15, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY 10am Class FEBRUARY 13 2014 It’s Valentine’s Day Eve. I saw this scribbled on one of the Students sketchbooks. I like it. We started our class today with a Travel Sketch talk from Tom. He and his very patient wife Pat have travelled through China and Mongolia and by train across Russia. Tom did as much sketching as time (or Pat ) would allow. “We’ll miss the train!’  From his books we could see where he’d been and the […]

Categories: Art, Art to Eat, Creative food, Food & Wine, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Sketching in Manly, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Art as food, Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Sketches, Travel Sketching

Sketching About in Cafes

January 17, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

I seem to be doing a lot of that lately. I must have more coffee cup sketches than anything else. I have a special trick too, for still drinking it hot. Sketch with me and you’ll find out how! And every one of them has its own personality. The top one is using watercolour pencils sideways and in a chunky way. Didn’t use the water brush here. The second one was done as part of a private lesson. Fast, run […]

Categories: Art, Great coffee, Sketching Cafes, Uncategorized • Tags: Cafe Sketches, Composition & Colour, Travel Sketching

Sketching Workshop Taupo New Zealand

December 14, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11 ’13 Taupo is an enormous and very deep lake, in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. Surrounded by little settlements and a main town centre, one of the big attractions is the mountains for skiing and trout fishing. When you arrive from the south, it tempts and taunts you as the road dips down to the cold blue water lapping on pumice shores, then takes you back through the forest before leading you back […]

Categories: Art, Boats, Line & Watercolour, Painting holidays, Sketch Workshops, Sketching Cafes, Sketching in New Zealand, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized, Watercolour Pencils • Tags: Color, New Zealand, Sketch, Sketching, Taupo

Shiny Silver and the Monument

November 23, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21. 2013. A great day to be out & about travel sketching. Big class. Three tutors to assist anybody in need. This week we are doing antique silver. Learning to get those elegant shapes and little decorative flourishes without getting too caught up. Getting the initial pieces where you want them on your page is the first challenge. However it’s colour we’re really looking at. Using watercolour is very rewarding or very frustrating. You are going to learn […]

Categories: Art, Manly Sketches, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketch& Stay Sketching Holidays, Sketching Cafes, Sketching in Manly, Sketching Perspective, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Manly, Sketches, Travel Sketching

Sunset Sketching. China, Mannequins and The Artichoke

November 22, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

After a 3 week break we had an excited group of sketchers along to tonight’s Sunset sketching class. With two tables set up in the studio, students could choose mannequins or a quaint still life of china. It’s a good time to remind ourselves that we can just have fun with this, it’s only a sketch, an experience, capturing an impression, a moment in time…just enjoy the process…and then turn the page… Mannequins were measured out and coloured and painted, […]

Categories: Art, Colours of the night, Evening Sketch Classs, Food & Wine, Life Modelling, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching Cafes, Uncategorized • Tags: art, Artichoke, Color, Mannequin, Sketch