Week6 Term1. Looking for eye level

March 11, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

SYDNEY CLASSES WEEK 6 TERM 1 ’17 Week 6 Term 1. March 11’17 We were again planning well ahead for our locations this week, in case of rain. Actually we had less than last week but our venues were spot on. New Sketchers all managed to sketch eye level perspective on location without too many rain drops. Our students whether in Manly, Mona Vale, Blue Mts and The Rocks all found brick buildings with a good corner where they could see […]

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Week5.Term1. Wheels & Shiny Things

March 4, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Week 5. Term 1. This was a week where unrelenting rain was promised every day- and it delivered. Admittedly there were breaks in the clouds and sunny periods did allow for quick sketching if we were lucky. But Toni and Kathy had very cleverly planned an indoor week for General Sketchers at the impressive Harley Davidson showroom. And it’s been a huge success. Our theme of thumbnails, light and heavy line work certainly translated well to motorcycles and all the […]

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Week4.Term1. Texture, Tone & Colour

February 25, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

  MANLY CLASSES. Saturday Feb 25 ’17 Week 4 and we’re all much more confident. We’re feeling more free with our lines and looser with our colour. For New Sketchers it was first time trying watercolour and something we all look forward to. We’ve learned the colours and layering in aquarelle so now we do it in paint. Two convenient and portable ways to use colour. As with our carefree impressions we take the same approach with colour. Apply where […]

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Adventure Class.The Secret Garden

February 24, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Thursday 23rd February Adventure Sketch to Lavender Bay. We met in the shade under the iconic Luna Park Face and immediately began sketching those massive eyebrows, teeth and lips. The more you study it, the creepier that face gets, more Batman Joker than Happy Go Lucky Clown we decided. Still fun to sketch. Only Robyn bucked the trend and faced the other direction, sketching the bridge, harbour and Opera House instead. At one stage I looked up and there was […]

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Summer Sketching. Hibiscus and beyond

January 5, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Tuesday Jan 3 ’17. Shelley Beach We hadn’t been sure what the weather would be like but luckily we could still do exactly what we’d planned. It stopped raining and brightened up. Little Manly Kiosk was an excellent place to begin our warm up sketch, which happened to be our good ol’ favourite – the red hibiscus. For those new to sketching it was a good way to give a few tips on how we look at our subject and […]

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New Sketchers Workshop. Dec4’16

December 9, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday December 4 ’16 Toni our tutor, had found some gorgeous red hibiscus growing nearby as our very first sketch of the day. On arrival people look at that rather blankly when we say ‘That will be our first sketch’ utterly disbelieving that the impossible is about to happen. That within an hour it will be on their sketchbook page. Viola who has sketched with us before was doing a refresher and impressed us by sharing her sketchbook, full of lovely […]

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2016 EHS Student Exhibition Opening

December 3, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a wonderful night it was. The most glorious sunset sent shafts of warm colour over the guests. Everybody was excited. The sketches were starring on every wall. New and old friends enjoyed wine and nibbles. The mood was ebulant. We tutors are feeling on top of the world. Here on the walls are the result of the term’s work. Such variety as we’ve not seen before. You are learning to be loose and free. To let go. We try to keep […]

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Week8 Term4. Christmas Trees Bicycles & Anatomy

December 3, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

EHS SYDNEY. Week 8 Term 4.  This week was time for a little anatomy for General classes. We were studying hands and feet. How do they really look? How do we sketch a simple version to complete our ‘people’ sketches? So by taking a darn good look at our own, we could make a composite of lots of angles. Feet are particularly intriguing when you sketch looking down. You may not have thought about those things on the end of […]

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The Book that Started it all

March 30, 2013 by Erin Hill Sketching

My Mother was a great reader. In fact both my parents were. Every Saturday morning we’d get into the Austin and be driven to the local library. All of us would come home with a pile of books, plus Mum would get the latest magazines such as Home & Garden, Vogue and Dad would have Saturday Evening Post with Norman Rockwell on every cover and my brother would get Popular Mechanics. We loved it. Apart from alI the Enid Blyton […]

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