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Week3.Term1. Lagoon Life and Beaches

February 17, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Saturday February 17 ’18 Some fun sketches resulted from all the excellent locations you’ve traveled to for Week 3. From Narrabeen Lagoon to Centennial Park and Wentworth Falls Lake, we found tranquility among the thriving wildlife. Ducks and ducklings, geese, swans, pigeons, magpies, ibis, gulls, parrots and pelicans, All performed brilliantly. All of these were scattered across our pages using many differing techniques to get a variety of looks. Intro classes had a beach day, starting with a 3 colour […]

Categories: ErinHill Sketching, Learn to Travel Sketch Australia, Sketch Classes Melbourne, Sketch Classes NZ, Sketching Lessons in Sydney, Travel Sketching, Travel Sketching Workshops, Urban Sketchers Sydney, Watercolour Painting • Tags: art, Art therapy, Sketching, Travel Sketching, Watercolour sketching

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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 […]

Categories: Sketching Perspective, Travel Sketching in France, Travel Sketching Sydney, Travel Sketching Workshops, Travelling with your Sketchbook, Urban Sketchers Sydney • Tags: art, Art therapy, ErinHillSketching, Sketching for Health

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