‘Sketching Your Day’Workshop

September 19, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

We spent our day as though we were  traveling. Often you have just a small amount of time in a foreign place. You want to get a few sketches. You’re not sure what you’ll see. You can’t ensure the weather. A typical situation.  So let’s get down to the little moments which will begin your sketch journey for the day. Ones you can make part of your day. Getting out of bed. Making your cup of tea. Reading the local paper. […]

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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 the ErinHill way

July 9, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Thought you’d like a preview of some of the images in my next Bella Vista exhibition after next weekend. Saturday July 9 ’16. Term break We may be on term break but I see my passionate students are sketching just as much as ever, and posting and commenting on EHS Facebook. Thanks to those students who are behind this. You are saving the sanity of quite a few. But meanwhile your new tutor team are working on exciting plans for […]

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Sat Intensive Oct 24 ’15. Fun with Perspective

October 26, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

I think most people woke up thinking “Oh oh, here we go, I know I need to get to grips with perspective but it’s not a subject matter that drives me wild with enthusiasm!” Well I totally understand that, it’s one of those subjects that you need to understand so your sketching comes together but it can be very perplexing at times.  What a lot of people find is that they look at a subject such as a building and […]

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Sketching Week 3 Term 4. Colours of Food & Sea

October 24, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

This was week 3 and for our General classes it was food glorious food. Extremely healthy mind you. Nothing processed here. Our still life was a beautiful arrangement of artichokes, red radishes, pears, brie with balsamic and black truffle oil bottles. A very nice composition of shapes and colour. The learning this week was to make the colours of food look edible. Easy to get mud!! During the week a class or two tried sketching with both left and right […]

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Sketching Week 1. Term 4. Looking at Shape.

October 10, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

Off to a flying start for our first week of Term 4. We have 2 New Sketcher classes and both did extremely well as you will see from the sketches below.   We spend time on the foundation skills in the Studio when you begin, getting familiar with page planning, observing and first steps in colour. What you learn here is the core of our EH travel sketching program. We had a visitor this week. Tony McNeight from Auckland in New […]

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Sketching Week 5 Term 3. Depth & Things Going Away

August 15, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

The depth, perspective,’going away’ classes are prolly the second most important one we teach, after ‘how to see’ About half way through term we have a good go at this one. Most people are very happy to re-do the whole exercise even if they’ve done it before  and have a few aha moments when things fall into place. We are very keen for students to get the concept starting with the absolute key  – eye level.  It makes a huge […]

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Sketching Wk 2, Term 2. Baking & Delicious Goodies

May 9, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

This week we pay homage to two events where baking and cakes and are a feature. It’s Mother’s Day this Sunday here in Australia and we also have the ‘Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea’ – a big fundraiser idea for Cancer during the month.. So our Baking still life was very timely and a good theme for all our sketchers this week. For our new sketchers we’d also cover some techniques we use for layering colour, and achieving warm food like colours. […]

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Sketching Week 8. Fast People.

March 28, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

The beach and the sea was a common theme for all our classes this week. The Week 3 people were working with limited colour on their sailing ship, to get those lights, mids and darks. At the wharf end of Manly, the mission was to sketch foreground middle and far distance across the water. Sketches were completed at the Manly Wharf Hotel with something to eat and drink to help turn our sketches into something magic! A very impressive week for all in […]

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