Sunday Workshop. People Faces and Figures

April 24, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday April 22 ’18 A smaller group this time due to some last minute postponements, but great for those who attended. We’d be doing a lot of looking at shape, page planning and use of simple colour, with as few as 3 colours. One of our more experienced sketchers took the chance to refresh this particular class and was delighted with the results. All out sketchers let go and had that pen racing around the page making delicious shapes and […]

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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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Week 1 Term 1 ’18. Looking for Shape

February 3, 2018 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our first week of term and back to sketching with a hiss and a roar. I’m sure everyone had a big lie down after their classes. Never has our right brain worked so hard, seeing past what we know and deconstructing our subjects into shapes. Intro classes studied how to make objects in nature into simple shapes. Then how to get that onto a page! Toss in some colour and……there it is. Laneways and alleyways was the subject for Travel […]

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Week10 Term4. Adventures in Colour

December 16, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Well we have just completed 10 wonderful weeks of Travel Sketching together. New Sketchers have achieved so much over the weeks and you are now ready to move into full Travel Sketching Classes. Your tutors are delighted to see how much confidence you now have. Our regular Travel Sketchers have flexed their brushes and gone way outside the envelope. You’ve let go of fear and played with line and colour in ways you never thought you could. From all of […]

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Week9 Term4. Nature’s Bounty

December 9, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Week 9 and what a gorgeous week for nature and colour. New Sketchers were looking at Intrinsic shape in fruit and veggies. General students were trying out the many ways of capturing the beauty of the bloom. Some gorgeous results. MANLY TUESDAY GENERAL DEC 5 ’17 We almost turned the studio into a florist today. Lots of gorgeous blooms to inspire but first a review of watercolor techniques, layering washes, wet on wet, and aquarelles for definition. So many creative […]

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Week7 Term4. Cafes & Sausage People

November 26, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

What a great week this one was. Both New and General were sketching people doing whatever they do in Cafes. Sausage people are how we get started when it’s our first try with this subject. Makes it so much more manageable to see people this way. And talk about laugh! so much fun Tuesday Manly General  Exploring gorgeous sidewalk cafes in Manly today although it felt like we could have been in France, Italy or Greece. Coffee at Hakan’s Cafe […]

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Boston Sketch Workshop

October 16, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Sunday October 14 ’17 North End Boston There has been a lot of interest from people in various parts of the USA to somehow learn to sketch with ErinHill Sketching. So to at least get started I decided to do one short Workshop while in Boston on the Saturday before leaving for New York and Australia. The sketchers were all people who new the EH style and simple approach. Not drawing. Not illustrating. The quick impression is what we do. […]

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Summer Sketching.The Cafe

January 25, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

Summer Sketching Tuesday Jan 23 & Thursday Jan 25 ’17 Summer holidays are coming to a close.  Australia Day celebrations are just before everyone goes back to work, school, or whatever keeps them busy all year. We’ve enjoyed our Summer classes just trying out ideas and colour. Seeing what happens when we have a go at techniques. What has also been a delight is the number of students we haven’t seen in ages, coming along to enjoy the company and […]

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Sketching Week 7 Term 3. Beach & Beyond

August 29, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

We like to give you an easier class every now and then, so this was the week. For our New Sketchers in Week 2,  a little bit of House and Garden, learning how we use colour on both still life and outdoor subjects. White tops and sides. Dark down the centre. It works and it’s fast. For other classes it was Week 7.  This would be about sea sand and sky.  Obviously we would need blue skies and sun. So […]

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