Week4.Term1. First Watercolours & Co- Sketching

February 24, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday February 24 ’18 Week 4 means first use of watercolours for our Introductory Sketchers. Having learned the colours and the layering system already, it now follows through with doing similar but with paint. Always an exciting day! You’re starting to feel like a ‘real’ artist now. For our more experienced sketchers we were looking at shape and form of people. But this would be very different. We’d be sketching who we saw, but sharing our sketchbooks around. When you […]

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Sketching the ErinHill way

July 9, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Thought you’d like a preview of some of the images in my next Bella Vista exhibition after next weekend. Saturday July 9 ’16. Term break We may be on term break but I see my passionate students are sketching just as much as ever, and posting and commenting on EHS Facebook. Thanks to those students who are behind this. You are saving the sanity of quite a few. But meanwhile your new tutor team are working on exciting plans for […]

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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 […]

Categories: Art, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching People, Travel Sketching • Tags: Line drawing with Watercolour, Painting Friends, Travel Sketching

Fearlessly Sketching People

June 14, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY 10AM GENERAL SKETCHING. JUNE 12 ’14 I can see blue skies and not a rain cloud anywhere. We begin this week with people sketching.  This and perspective would be the 2 subjects people think they cannot do. Something of a blockage occurs early in our lives when we can’t get it ‘right’.  So we decide not to go there again. However, when you are shown what to look for it all begins to make sense. Some of the sketches […]

Categories: Art, Out & About Sketch Classes, Sketching People, Travel Sketching • Tags: Composition & Colour, Location Sketches, Manly Beach, Travel Sketching

Mannequins and Shop Displays

November 16, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

    THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14. 2013 It’s  a gorgeous day today. Sitting in the sun very early, I can hear happy birds, and watch the ferries plying all those lucky people travelling by water to the city. It will be a good day. Christy and I are guiding our class today in observing the mannequins which are our sketching setups this week. There’s a single one and an action pair. It’s very pleasing the way everyone gets stuck in. People […]

Categories: Art, Out & About Sketch Classes, Painting Techniques, Sketching People, Sketching Perspective, Travel Sketching, Uncategorized • Tags: Composition & Colour, Line drawing with Watercolour, Manly, Mannequin, Sketches

Our First Sketching at Sunset Series Completed

October 24, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 ’13 Hello’ it’s Christy here, and it’s Wednesday night “Sunset Sketching Class”. Our diligent 4 arrived and wondered what we were going to be sketching tonight, and then saw the white board with a beautiful demonstration from Erin, on how to approach sketching people. So you guessed it, tonight’s sketch was going to be each other and later, people at the café. On board this evening, we also had the wonderful company of Vivianne, one of our […]

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Round & Oblong shapes, Big Gates & Pizza

September 7, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY SEPT 5 ’13 What a glorious day for me to return to the Studio. Today I felt a little perspective should be back on board after all the cake- ish things we’ve sketched recently. Round and box shapes. Watch the way boxes become narrower as they go away. Notice that round things have no pointed corners! Everybody did well, and although a couple of brain freezes occurred, but were back on track seeing well again in a second. Through […]

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A Little Yoga Sketching

July 31, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Last week after yoga we were at Bloom for coffee and a little something. Bloom is very new and we were very excited to see what had been a restaurant become a gorgeous cafe with designer rustic decor. Big plus, the coffee is great and so is the food. We were so enthusiastic, that those of us who sketch had said we should bring our sketchbooks this week and we’d sketch our food and whatever appealed. So there we were. […]

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Sydney Sketch Club at Bastille Day Markets

July 13, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

Markets are busy and colourful places and very appealing to sketchers. But of course there is so much going on, you have to think about how your sketches will sum up the occasion. I liked the ‘Delicate Cakes’ marquee with it’s beautiful little cake art pieces and its croquembouche centrepiece. From where I was, slightly behind it and on the rise, I could observe well. This was our Sydney Sketch club Meetup and International Sketchcrawl. Jennifer placed herself in front […]

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