Travel Sketching Classes
by Email
with Erin Hill
‘Abbaye Saint-Hilare France’
Watercolour & Line Sketch
ABOUT
Here we have a architectural of an ancient Abbey.
In fact this is Abbeye Saint-Hilaire in France, where Dom Perignon, a Benedictine Monk discovered a way of putting bubbles into wine!
Historic buildings like this may well be the kind of thing you come across in your travels.
This step by step class will help you with where to start and how to get an impression into your sketchbook.
We’re using watercolour over our line sketch.
I layer the colours to get light and dark and I take you through as I do it.
You can then set up one of your own and follow the same steps, on location of course.
By taking the time to observe and learn my techniques, you’ll soon see how it applies to more complex subjects with ease.
Click here to get to know me.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
•To take a large foreground of arches and focus on the view within.
•To keep either the foreground or background light or dark. You need the contrast.
•To find a point of interest in the scene, near the centre. I used one of the sketchers sitting on a wall.
•Keep plenty of white space. No need to fill every corner with paint.
WHAT YOU GET
• You’ll receive several pages as a PDF similar to above.
•Each page has easy to follow instruction/guidance notes with full colour sketches to follow.
• We’ll start with the first planning sketch right through to the completed work in full colour.
• You can take as long as you like. Stop and start anytime.
•Aim for 30mins or so later, to do the sketch, and same for the colour.
•This is exactly the way I tutor my classes when we’re all together.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Sketch Kit you’ll need.
https://erinhillsketching.com/the-sketch-kit
*Any size sketchbook with flat white paper - not textured. 125gm is fine. I use A5 often.
*Black waterproof pen. (No lead pencil needed)
*Set of 12 Watercolours (check the link above and you’ll see the 8 -10 colours)
Chinagraph wax pencil to highlight whites before you apply paint
COST
$19.95 for each class.
BUY YOUR CLASS
I’ll invoice you by Paypal and you can pay by credit card
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