Sketching in Tuscany
Wednesday September 24 ’14 The view to the peaked mountains is glorious. Rich lilacs, lavenders and pinks in soft layers behind the intense greens coming forward. Everyone is bright and early on their...
View ArticleSketching Nature, First Week Term 4.
Tuesday Class. October 7 2014. We’re excited and we’re back for term 4 together, and everyone is eager to get to class today. We’ve gotten ‘flowers’ to sketch in the studio today, and I was still...
View ArticleSketching Books and Stories.
Tuesday Class. October 14 ’14 We’re into the second week of term, and our class is swelling in size and enthusiasm. We’ve all arrived a bit early, and are very keen to get started. Today we’re looking...
View ArticleSketching Fast People
Tuesday Class. October 21 ’14 Hello’ it’s Christy here. Today Toni and I have the pleasure of Karen helping us with our large group, and also taking us through a fun exercise she and others had...
View ArticleMelbourne Cup Sketching Week
Tuesday Class. Melbourne Cup Day. November 4 ’14. ‘Hello everyone, it’s Christy here’. Hope you’ve all had a good week, and as we welcome back the sketchers today we can’t believe it’s already halfway...
View ArticleSketching. Playing With Colour
Monday Class. November 17 ’14. Another blue sky day. We’re getting these more now that summer is mostly here. Today the big tables were back and nothing setup on them. Nobody commented as being new...
View ArticleSketching. Finding Your Eye Level
Eye level perspective is what we’ve worked on this week. The ‘P’ word can create a lot of fear in people. OOOh I can’t do this. I never understood it. I can’t see how it goes down not up etc. So it...
View ArticleSketching Treasure Hunt
So this is it. All the blood sweat and tears. It’s over for the year. Sketching luckily requires none of that. More likely ‘observe, sketch and laugh’ An interesting week indeed having our Sketching...
View ArticleNew Sketchers Week 4. Flat Perspective.
MONDAY APRIL 30 ’15 Our sketching classes have bumped into Easter. To complete our very important syllabus, we simply stop, eat Easter eggs, and carry on the next week. So we’ll have a look at Week 4...
View ArticleSketching Week 10. Classical Architecture
A beautiful week at Balmoral Beach for all our classes completing week 10. We scored fine weather each time and shared our sketching space on the island with a couple of resident bunnies. Now at last...
View ArticleSketch&French, Week 2
S&F Monday May 4 ’15 Our sketching this week was a small still life of fruit with white jug. Simple and clear shapes which make it easy to see the differences. Colour would be simple too. Layers of...
View ArticleSat Intensive Oct 24 ’15. Fun with Perspective
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...
View ArticleSydney.Summer Sketching.The Travel Journal.
We’ve started our weekly Summer Sketching Tuesdays. Just 3 of us today but we chatted, laughed, coffeed, and sketched the whole time. Criniti’s is our ‘Studio’ each week. At least, that’s where we...
View ArticleWeek 10 Term2. Sketchcrawl
A wonderful term 2 has just concluded and everyone has made huge progress along the way. People who had no idea they had a shred of creative ability are now hooked. For most though it’s just the sheer...
View ArticleSketching Holidays Week 2
Saturday July 16 ’16 What I’m going to say may not seem related to sketching but you’ll see that in fact it is very much part of being a cohesive society. To be here in this small village in the South...
View ArticleFrench Sketch Classes this Week
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...
View ArticleWeek1.Term3. Back Together
From Erin: Back into action. With all pens and brushes flying. So exciting. Ok let me settle down. Whew. Such great sketches came down the airwaves to me this week, here in Barcelona. New Sketchers...
View ArticleWeek4.Term3. Fabric & Folds
New Sketchers. Always an exciting and eagerly anticipated week- Watercolours! Finally new sketchers discovered for themselves the joy contained in that small travel set of jewel bright colours. In...
View ArticleWeek8.Term3. Wheels & Spiral Sketching
EHS SYDNEY NEW SKETCHERS. As travel sketchers, we like to capture the essence of a place. The bicycle is an everyday mode of transport in many Asian and European cities, even our favourite Manly. Not...
View ArticleWeek9 Term3. People are just Shapes
Week 9 Term 3. Sept 17 ’16 Wow this term has gone quickly. New Sketchers and General were all tackling ‘people’ this week. We’ve made big people shapes on rolls of paper, we’ve thrown paint and crayon...
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