Sketching Holiday Vietnam

December 23, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

December 1 – December 14 2017 Oi Choi Oi! (Vietnamese for OMG) It’s been less than a week since my return and I’m working hard at losing the 2 kgs of Vietnamese noodles and condensed milk coffees I managed to sneak through customs around my midriff, before the Festive Season of Indulgence truely kicks in. What a wonderful introduction to travelling with sketchers, our trip to Hoi An was for me! We arrived as strangers and left as friends. In […]

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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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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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Week3 Term 2. Water & People

May 14, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our subjects this week. Sailing and backward people. Not ‘that’ backward – just people back on! Different subjects indeed. For New Sketchers we’re beginning to look at composition in your still life and the sailing scene on location was a great place to start. Placing your shapes in a way to keep your focus on the page, rather than falling off. Colours of the sea in watercolour pencil is the other mission this week. Keeping your colour round your subjects […]

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Week2. Term2. Discovering Simple Colour.

May 8, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

This week some of our classes looked at the translucency of glass. Always a lovely subject and with enough light top and sides, and picking out 2 to 3 colours for each bottle, you’ll have your impression. Other classes were working on the layering of colour while leaving white tops and sides. Having fruit as a still life made is easy to look for the simple shapes and get the dimension using light and dark. Trees were also a subject some […]

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Week 9 Term 1. Seeing Shape

April 2, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Week 9 already! However when we tutors look at the progress you have all made starting back at week one, it’s incredible. Our New Sketchers have become very competent at all those core skills and ready now to step up to General classes and continue the journey. General Classes. A little surprise for you to be sketching motor vehicles! In fact they are very much part of your sketching world. Think about vehicles you might see in Vietnam, or Cuba or […]

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Sydney.Summer Sketching. Rain Rain Rain

January 5, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Tuesday Jan 5 ’16 The forecast was for rain so it was hardly a surprise that it did. Not that it was cold, just raindrops kept falling on our heads – till we hurried inside at Crinitis. A good group of us today and already settled wondering what we’d be doing. Rain of course. Usually we look for blue skies and sun regardless of what is actually happening. But there will be days when there’s very little blue around so that’s […]

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Sketching Week 6. Term 4 ’15. Cottage Flowers and Gardens

November 14, 2015 by Erin Hill Sketching

Week 6 has been a challenging one for New Sketchers and a beautiful one for General classes. We need both in sketching. It’s a learning, observing journey.  Seeing where eye level is for the first time is very new to most people.  But when you realise how it works, and it’s the key to all your outdoor sketching, a new world opens. General classes had gorgeous flowers and even a koi garden this week, between showers. The ideal pretty sketch. […]

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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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