Author Archives: Ed Mostly

About Ed Mostly

Enthusiastic daily sketcher based in Bath Uk

Walky, talky

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Here’s a video of my lecture at the Manchester Symposium. It’s about an hour long and is an attempt to trace the history of urban sketching through old and vintage sketching books, and earlier art movements. Many thanks to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Manchester Symposium, urban sketching | Tagged history of urban sketching, Manchester Symposium, Neil Young, urban sketching, vintage books on sketching | 7 Comments

Stockholm museums

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Ed Mostly

More sketches from Stockholm’s wonderfully rich collection of museums, this time the Museum of Ethnography, the Mediterranean Museum, and the Nordic Museum. From the top… a cabinet of small statues, a pair of Roman busts, a Saami knife handle (and portrait … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, exhibitions, masks, museum, statues, Stockholm, urban, urban sketching | Tagged museum sketching, sketch of Saami knife, sketches of masks, sketches of Roman busts, sketching in Stockholm, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Ship ahoy!

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Museum sketches from Stockholm. First some of the haunting facial reconstructions of bodies found in the C17th Vasa shipwreck (and the skulls they worked off) at the wonderful Vasa Museum. Then looking down from an upper viewing platform on galleries of visitors looking at the ship … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, boats, faces, figures, museum, nautical, Naval museum, people watching, skulls, Stockholm, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Maritime Museum, museum sketching, sketches of model ships, sketching faces, skull sketches, Stockholm museums, The Upsetters, urban sketching, Vasa Museum | Leave a comment

Gothic horror

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Here’s the amazing C15th statue of George and the Dragon in Stockholm’s Storkyrkan. It’s huge, gruesome (body parts are scattered on the ground beneath the dragon) and made of wood and deer antlers (the spiky bits on the dragon). That’s the … Continue reading →

Posted in church, sculpture, Stockholm, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Band of Horses, fountain pen sketches, sketch in Storkyrkan, sketch of dragon, statue of George and the dragon, Stockholm sketching, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Urban bamboo

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Trying out the bamboo dip pen around town, people (and dog) watching in the parks and streets. It’s great for gesture drawing and foliage, something about the nib invites a playful wandering line, feeling out the shapes and shadows. From the top: … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buskers, coloured ink, figures, park, people watching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, Blur, park sketches, sketches of buskers, sketches of dogs, sketching in Bath, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 2 Comments

Sketches of sketchers, some sketching

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sketchers at the recent wonderful Manchester Symposium, and sketches of me by other sketchers, sometimes while I sketched them; the Symposium felt like a hall of mirrors at times, a walk-in Escher! From the top there’s Lapin not sketching, Favian EE … Continue reading →

Posted in comparisons, concertina sketchbooks, figures, Manchester Symposium, people, sketchcrawl, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Arno Hartman, Camera Obscura, Favian EE, Gerard Michel, Lapin, Manchester Symposium, Marion Rivolier, Nina Johansson, Paul Heaston, pencil sketches of people, Pete Scully, sketching sketchers, Tina Koyama, urban sketchers, urban sketching | 9 Comments

Muji pocket palette

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Here’s my new homemade pocket palette. It cost about £8 and two hours to make, weighs almost nothing (53 grams or less than 2 ozs, including paint…) and has lots of room for pigments and mixing. It’s small enough to be part of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, kit, palettes, technique, urban, urban sketching | Tagged home-made palette, mini watercolour palette, Muji card-case palette, pocket palette, urban sketching, urban sketching kit, urban sketching palette | 10 Comments

Scrolling sketch

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Ed Mostly

My clever friend Jim (who has an excellent art blog) showed me how to display photos of a concertina sketchbook as a continuous image. I haven’t quite got the colour/lightness matching correct across the photos, but the overall effect is close to … Continue reading →

Posted in concertina sketchbooks, farm, journeys, landscape, Mendips, rural, walking | Tagged accordion fold sketchbook, concertina sketchbook, displaying concertina sketchbook, Public Image Limited, rural sketching, sketches of the Mendips, urban sketching, urban sketching kit | 8 Comments

Busy busy

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sitting on the lawn in front of the Royal Crescent trying to sketch everyone that passes by during a sunny 20 minutes, sometimes just catching their feet, sometimes seeing them in the distance. It’s a sort of survey/sampling exercise, a bit messy, … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, dip pen, figures, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, dip-pen sketching, John Barry, royal crescent, sketch of street in rain, sketch sampling movement, sketching in Bath, street scenes, urban sketching | 5 Comments

In transit

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Travelling to Stockholm and back; the view from 38,000 feet (both ways), and fellow passengers at Heathrow and Arlanda (so many free models…). I’d never noticed the plane’s fuselage reflected on the engine before, a good example of the way … Continue reading →