Week10.Term3.Scones Sand & Sun

September 24, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Week 10 ended a quite amazing term 3. We’ve ramped it up and you have loved it. If it fits in a sketch book – anything goes! Our last week of term Is our ‘go somewhere different’ week. Take a ferry to the city or stretch out at a quiet beach spot. We did both. We also invited friends. Some very talented partners bravely attended the MCA cafe sketch and certainly showed they’d been listening to their sketch partners. Really […]

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Auckland NZ Intensive. Cerulean & Choppy Chops

September 5, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

  Sunday September 4 ’16 The weather looked inclement. Would it stay fine for our Intensive? As it turned out yes. Right till 2.45 and time for us to get back to the Studio and then – rain. Great timing. Thanks to whoever was in charge.   What a great group of enthusiastic sketchers who gave up Father’s Day or family time to come along and play with sketches and colour all day. This is me. Erin. Moving around again but […]

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Week7. Term3. The Watercolour Effect

September 4, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

EHS Sydney In General Classes:  As Travel Sketchers we are always looking for fun, fast techniques to embellish our sketches. This week we explored using watercolour washes and sprinkles of watercolour pencil in our sketchbooks. We realised what a fantastic technique this is for travelling as we prepare our pages ahead of time, perhaps colouring a few pages randomly in our new sketchbooks and using them when the mood arises.  Coloured pages are also handy if you are sketching in a […]

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Sketching French.The last days of Summer

August 28, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

August 24 – 27 ’16. Over the hot days of summer, June July and August, I’ve sketched with some marvellous people right here in the tranquil little village of Trausse. It is in the Languedoc region (although we are now a bigger department called Occitanie)  and one of the best wine growing areas. Everyone has discovered what a joy sketching is. Each has gone on to continue the journey. Thank you to all of you for helping me continue my own journey to share […]

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Week6 Term3.What Goes Up Must Come Down

August 27, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

  EHS SYDNEY Week Six began promisingly as warm and sunny but the early Spring weather quickly reverted back to Winter and for most of our sketching groups, it became a battle to find a spot to sketch, out of the icy cold wind and rain. Our beginner sketchers stepped up to the challenge of perspective, locating eye levels and horizons and visualising vanishing points. For some, sketching perspective is easy, especially if you sat through technical drawing classes in […]

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Week5 Term3.Flat Perspective and Curly Hair

August 20, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

EH Sketching Sydney General Sketchers this week were sketching with Al the Barber. But first we completed some fun warm up sketches in the studio. First sketch was a continuous line drawing of a crazy ‘Waste to Art’ sculpture made by Kathy. Lots of lovely detail to keep that black line moving over the page. So much creativity in your largely black and white sketches with a dash of colour. Our next still life was a fabulous curly haired model, […]

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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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Workshop. Fabrezan. South of France

August 2, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

August 1 ’16.  ‘Taste of Sketching’ Workshop at Domaine PaulHuc. Fabrezan. Aude and Florence had invited me to hold a Sketch Workshop at their domaine when I visited a couple of month’s ago. The two sisters happen to own this wonderful old family property. They are on a mission to renovate and convert the massive wine storage spaces to gites ( apartments) with a boutique and cafe as a meeting place and swimming pool set among the gardens.. It is now up […]

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