Week 2. Term 1 – Shape, tone, texture

February 10, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Intro classes were discovering round shapes and our particular way of showing dimension – white top and sides, dark down the centre. Lemons and limes give a great chance to show how darks behind whites give you that depth in the fastest way. Travel Sketching classes were looking at techniques for brick, render and sandstone. We picked the 3 colours we’d use a base here and tried both watercolour and aquarelle to try different effects. Then either vignettes or entrances […]

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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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Sketching Holiday Vietnam

December 23, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

December 1 – December 14 2017 Oi Choi Oi! (Vietnamese for OMG) It’s been less than a week since my return and I’m working hard at losing the 2 kgs of Vietnamese noodles and condensed milk coffees I managed to sneak through customs around my midriff, before the Festive Season of Indulgence truely kicks in. What a wonderful introduction to travelling with sketchers, our trip to Hoi An was for me! We arrived as strangers and left as friends. In […]

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Term4 Week8. Bicycles & Books

December 2, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

New Sketchers started by sketching a bicycle from memory! Something we’ve seen all our lives, but can’t remember how it looks without seeing one. Our observation skills were honed up once we saw the real thing. Lots of laughs over our memory sketches! General classes were back at harry Hartog Booksellers, one of our favourite locations to sketch. We were looking for vintage or crazy shop displays – and there were plenty. That’s a paper mache reindeer wearing red antlers, […]

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Student Exhibition 2017

December 2, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a gorgeous evening we had at our favourite spot on North Head, gazing across the National Park towards Sydney town, as the sun went down. What a wonderful gathering too of students family and friends, all there to celebrate the work on display. Some of our very early students (2012) were in attendance, as were some who are in their first term. Such a variety of styles this year and so many different techniques and colour. A lot of […]

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Week6 Term3.What Goes Up Must Come Down

August 27, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

  EHS SYDNEY Week Six began promisingly as warm and sunny but the early Spring weather quickly reverted back to Winter and for most of our sketching groups, it became a battle to find a spot to sketch, out of the icy cold wind and rain. Our beginner sketchers stepped up to the challenge of perspective, locating eye levels and horizons and visualising vanishing points. For some, sketching perspective is easy, especially if you sat through technical drawing classes in […]

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French Sketch Classes this Week

July 19, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

July 12 and July 17 ’16 Carolyn leaves our village later in the week so this was a fast tracked journey directly from wc pencil straight to watercolours To warmup we started with a sketch of the candelabra still on the table from last night. Then in our first watercolour attempt we threw on some chinagraph to keep white tops and sides then chose some colours we thought worked well. Paint goes into the palette lid and is diluted or […]

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Week 10 Term2. Sketchcrawl

July 2, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

A wonderful term 2 has just concluded and everyone has made huge progress along the way. People who had no idea they had a shred of creative ability are now hooked. For most though it’s just the sheer confidence that comes with having a go at any subject and feeling good about the outcome. We never worry about ‘getting it right’ as your sketch will be just as you see it. You cannot go wrong. No more worry or judging oneself. […]

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Sydney.Summer Sketching. Rain Rain Rain

January 5, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Tuesday Jan 5 ’16 The forecast was for rain so it was hardly a surprise that it did. Not that it was cold, just raindrops kept falling on our heads – till we hurried inside at Crinitis. A good group of us today and already settled wondering what we’d be doing. Rain of course. Usually we look for blue skies and sun regardless of what is actually happening. But there will be days when there’s very little blue around so that’s […]

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