Adventure Sketching. Agar Steps and Millers Point

April 8, 2017 by Erin Hill Sketching

THURSDAY APRIL 6 ’17 Thursday provided warm sunshine for our sketch meander through The Rocks and Millers Point.. We met at the Splendid Cafe right at the base of the historic Agar steps built in 1892, a series of beautiful, cascading sandstone steps which link Kent Street to  Observatory Hill. There are quaint private residences all the way up. So much to sketch! We had to compete with hundreds of keep fit fanatics running up and down the steps and […]

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Week7 Term4. Traditional buildings & People Action

November 26, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Our classes offer such diversity these days. With day, evening, mid morning classes for both New and General Sketchers, the subject of the week may be set, but it’s how each class goes about it that creates such interest when you see all of the work together. You’ll see sketches of complex Federation architecture alongside early Australian cottage styles. We sketched montages of figure forms in action followed by people sketching in cafes. For our evening class it was sketching by […]

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Week3.Term4. Colour Washes & People

October 29, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

EHS Sydney October 29 ’16 Both New and General classes stepped up again this week, only our third week. To be starting watercolours when you’ve never used them before is very exciting. But as you began to discover this week, I’ve developed a very simple way to use them. No need to match what you see and struggle to make a colour. We teach you to layer your colours one over the other and keep the impression fresh. You’re loving […]

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Week2 Term4. Sketching Watercolours

October 22, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

  EHS Sydney. Week 2 Term 4. October ’16 For our 2nd week students were learning much about whites and darks and colour . Where to leave lights. Where to focus darks. Sea and sky using playful colour. What colours make other colours. All part of observing. New Sketchers we’re looking at round objects and learning about keeping ‘whites’. It’s free. Why colour it all in! Some very beautiful results here followed by a little nature walk.  Trees. We showed how to […]

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Week1.term4. Tone & Texture

October 15, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

Back into our sketching for Term 4 and off to a great start too. New Sketchers, and we’re proud to say the biggest intake of new students we’ve had, all survived their first nervous footsteps into the Studio, quite uncertain that this may be be the biggest mistake ever. Until we begin those first vital steps. Ahh so I can relax now, they say to themselves. And everyone does. By the end of their very first class each one has […]

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New Sketchers Workshop. Oct 2 ’16

October 3, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

We managed to score an utterly glorious day for our New Sketchers Sunday Workshop.  A group of very keen people arrived at the appointed time and after introducing ourselves, inspecting our new sketch kits it was time for tea and coffee. Everyone there said they were keen to learn to sketch while traveling rather than end up with a heap of camera images. In fact one of those attending was there because she’d met Therese one of our sketchers on a Scandinavian […]

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General Intensive.Aug 21. Streets & People

August 25, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

General Intensive: ‘Street Scenes & People’ Manly pulled out all the stops and produced an absolute corker of a day for us to sketch happy crowds flowing out of the ferry terminal. Family groups walking along the esplanade, canoodling couples lying on the lawn, even a TV filming actors who were rather hopeless at kayaking-  we sketched them all! In the studio, we learnt a few tricks to ‘fudge’ a crowd and add the human element to sketches to help add atmosphere, […]

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French Sketch Classes this Week

July 19, 2016 by Erin Hill Sketching

July 12 and July 17 ’16 Carolyn leaves our village later in the week so this was a fast tracked journey directly from wc pencil straight to watercolours To warmup we started with a sketch of the candelabra still on the table from last night. Then in our first watercolour attempt we threw on some chinagraph to keep white tops and sides then chose some colours we thought worked well. Paint goes into the palette lid and is diluted or […]

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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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