Sunday Workshop. Sketching & Simple Colour

February 18, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday February 18 ’18 Another glorious Sydney day. How do we cope! coming along to one of very enjoyable ‘Taste of Sketching’ Workshops helps a lot. Once we get started with observing our subject, we’re quite unaware of what might be happening out there in the world!  We’re very busy observing only what’s in front of us. Sketching is one of these wonderful moments in time where you are completely immersed in playing with line and colour. Totally in the […]

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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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Sunday Workshop. Sand Sea & Beach

January 29, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday January 28 ’18. A Taste of Sketching Workshop We had another rather hot and muggy Sydney day for our students to try their Travel Sketching wings. But it’s not long before everyone has met each other, had a drink and studied their sketch kit. We start with a bit of Erin’s philosophy about all this being for you and sketching what you observe in the time you have. We are trying to move away from the self judgement of […]

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Holiday Sketching

December 29, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

  There’s something nice about holidays and sketching. Yawn, Stretch, Sketch. Our Wednesdays at Bella Vista are very relaxed. Just turn up if you feel the mood coming on, and start with a great coffee or apple tart or mushrooms on toast, overlooking one of Sydney’s best Harbour views. The first Wednesday had a promised temperature of 35C, however outside under those massive Morton Bay figs, with a slight breeze, the temperature was 10C less. So lovely. This week people […]

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Term 4. Week 3. Embellishments and Water Scenes

October 28, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Hello everybody, we are in week 3 already. We have a had a week full of new skills being practiced, and for some classes, new tools being introduced. General students discovered the joy of embellishing their sketch pages. Tuesday Manly General ‘Permission to Play’ was today’s theme with lettering our focus. You could have heard a pin drop. So much concentration. Sketchers chose headings, title pages, quotes and embellished old sketch book pages. It was lovely to have time in […]

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Term 4. Week 2. Vistas and Round Objects

October 23, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Welcome to the second week of Term 4. The weather is warming up, and many of us have been enjoying getting out and sketching the fabulous scenes Sydney has to offer. Take a look at what the classes accomplished this week. Tuesday Manly General A beautiful class spent at North Harbour Reserve. Coffee at 40 Beans Cafe set us up for a quick sketch of the cafe or cottage. Then it was off to the waters edge to sketch the […]

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Term 4 has begun!

October 16, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Term 4 has begun, with New sketchers learning all about the joys of Travel Sketching the Erin Hill way, and returning students continuing with class mates whom have now become friends, as they delve deeper into the fascinating and fun world of Sketching. Tuesday Manly General  Everything is interesting when you sketch it, even broccoli and cauliflower! We had a great time settling into class taking time to really observe detail, texture and tone. We developed our skills in hatching, […]

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Term 3. Week 7. people, fashion and mannequins.

September 4, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a week of people sketching. New Sketchers learnt new skills sketching people for the first time, and the General classes took to the shopping districts to sketch mannequins, fashion and shop windows. Manly Tuesday General We discovered today that mannequins are a great way to practise people & fashion, AND mannequins don’t move away like real people do. Lots of colour and movement in your sketches, I think you even surprised yourselves, yes, you can sketch people and they […]

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Term 3. Week 3. Boats and Water.

August 5, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Welcome to week 3 of sketching (for some its week 2). We are in the middle of winter, and for some in Manly, it’s been sunny. Sketching by the bay has been spectacular. Take a look and see…   Manly General Tuesday A great day to be enjoying views of Manly Cove filled with yachts just waiting to be sketched. To warm up and get to know our subject we filled pages with loose boat shapes, but these cheeky shapes […]

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