Travel Sketching Week 1. Let’s get started.

February 7, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

New classes. New faces. New Sketch program. Welcome to some fun everybody. Whichever weekly class you’re in, we like to start with flowers trees and nature. A gentle easing in for new and regular sketchers. We are focussing on our foundation skills. Observation of shape, and observation of colour. In Ivanhoe Park we sketch a leafless gum – could well be green by the end of the week – tall and flowing. You learn to work quickly. First looking for it’s intrinsic shape. […]

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Sketching Treasure Hunt

December 8, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

So this is it. All the blood sweat and tears. It’s over for the year. Sketching luckily requires none of that.  More likely ‘observe, sketch and laugh’ An interesting week indeed having our Sketching Treasure Hunt with every class.  10 things on the list to find and sketch.  Allow about 12 mins per sketch and just go for it. Oh and colour too. W’colour pencils are perfect for these fast moving occasions. Everyone loved this sketching treasure hunt. Ok we […]

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Sketching. Colour Texture & Hatching

November 29, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Monday Class. November 24 ’14 This is week 3 of 5 classes. Today’s we’d be playing with watercolour. Somet have had a couple of tries and some have never tried it. Well you’re in for some fun. Our NZ sketcher would be doing a similar exercise in wcolour pencils. This one for her in a day or two., and she found it fascinating to see the action. On the table we had some round smooth rocks. Thanks Judy. Looking at these […]

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