Cabramatta. Food&Sketch Day Trip

September 29, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Wednesday September 28 ’16 When Anna, our Vietnam expert, master chef, sketcher and director on our Vietnam Sketch Holidays, suggested day sketching trips to foodie heavens – we thought about it for 10 seconds and said ‘Let’s do it .’ So to kick start this series four of us made an early start to be at the Cabramatta Freedom Plaza temple gate, and wait by the water buffalo. Public transport seemed the obvious transport solution. First the bus, then the train on platform 5, […]

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New Sketchers Intensive. Aug 14

August 19, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

It was wonderful to spend a sunny Winter’s day with such a motivated group of sketchers. We started in the Studio with beautiful Bird of Paradise flowers, observing their dramatic shape and their myriad of colours. A sketchers delight, brilliant orange, reds, greens, yellows, even blue purples. This flower really knows how to say ‘’Look at Me!”. After a quick sketch, we enjoyed using our watercolour pencils, layering light, mid and darker tones and then layers of two or three […]

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A Sketching Week in France

August 7, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

August 1 – 6 ’16. Trausse Minervois Bibs and Gordon had been to Trausse four years ago.  But now there a new reason to return. Sketching. I’d had several emails from Bibs in Canada, and who’d studied many kinds of art over the years. But she’d seen what we do in Travel Sketching, and discovered I’d be here in France for a few months.  That’s what she wanted to do. Learn to Travel Sketch. So bookings were made for 28 Rue des […]

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Week3.Term3. Mixing Mediums

August 6, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

EHS Sydney General Sketching Music…Fabulous work this week. Everyone found something they were happy to sketch, the drum, pan flute, the guitar, music stand and cornet.  Mixing media is what we’re doing lots of. So there was paint, charcoal, water brushes, ink and bamboo pens. We love what you’ve done with lovely old music sheets as paper and the sketches in your books. So much character and so much expression in your line and use of colour. And now we know […]

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Sketching Exhibitions 2016

March 25, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

ErinHill Sketching Exhibitions at Bella Vista Gallery & Cafe. 2016 Ever since our very successful 2014 Student exhibition, Bella Vista Cafe & Gallery has become our exhibition space.  This gives a great opportunity to sketchers who may never have a chance to show the world what they do in their little sketchbooks. We show prints from our original sketches and keep the prices very realistic. Framed works are available for sale straight off the walls. No waiting for customers. To show  what […]

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Sketching Week 8 Term 4. Down by the Sea

November 28, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

This week we’ve had lots happening in our Travel Sketching World. General Classes this week were each framing our print for the  Student Exhibition to be on show all of December and January at Bella Vista Gallery and Cafe, North Head. Then a leisurely stroll to along the winding pathway to Shelley Beach and The Boathouse for some beach sketching. Wednesday New Sketchers were off to Hanoi. Starting with bicycle sketches – the first one from memory, the second from a model […]

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Sketching Week 3. Sailing & Sea.

February 21, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

A very enjoyable week for all our students. This week it was colour techniques with watercolour pencil with water brush. We started with a quick nautical sketch followed by a page of colour swatches, using all 10 of our coloured pencils. Hard to light and a stroke of water brush to see what happens. Colours were then applied to your sketch, and sparing use of your water brush, learning how much or little water was best. You’ll soon find out which!  We […]

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Sketching. Finding Your Eye Level

December 3, 2014 by Erin Hill Sketching

Eye level perspective is what we’ve worked on this week. The ‘P’ word can create a lot of fear in people. OOOh I can’t do this. I never understood it. I can’t see how it goes down not up etc. So it seems an excellent time to pop this into onto our program of learning – one week before we finish. And by taking it one step at a time, you begin to get the concept,  begin to understand how it works and even enjoy it! […]

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