Author Archives: Ed Mostly

About Ed Mostly

Enthusiastic daily sketcher based in Bath Uk

Beach life

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Two scenes of Tenby beach-life, complete with seagull drones, ice-cream van, and parasols. The first was from the cliff top, the second from rocks at the base of the cliff, and each is followed by their pre-watercolour version. Finally the same view as … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, figures, holiday, people watching, sea, Tenby, Wales | Tagged beach sketching, sketch of busy beach, sketches of crowds, sketches of people on beach, Sketching in Tenby, Tenby beaches, The Beatles, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Barry’s book #1

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Ed Mostly

My friend Barry is writing a book about his recent experience of learning to use a wheelchair and the wider impact this has had on his life. He’s kindly asked me to illustrate it, so once a month I go round to … Continue reading →

Posted in Barry's book, collections, domestic, hands, illustration, Lexington grey, objects | Tagged illustrating a book, sketch of boots, sketch of car interior, sketch of Doc Martens, sketch of interior staircase, sketch of skin-care tubes, sketches of hands, Steve Reich | 5 Comments

Six left hands

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Ed Mostly

All the lines were done in brush-pen, loaded with various water-proof inks; Noodlers Brown 41 (the first four), Noodlers Lexington grey (the fifth), and Carbon black (the last). The warm brown ink suits the subject best, merging with the colour wash at times, … Continue reading →

Posted in body, brush pen, coloured paper, hands, ink brush, inks, Lexington grey, seasonal, self-portrait | Tagged brush-pen sketching, ink brush sketching, kuretake ink-brush sketches, Noodlers ink for sketching, sketches of hands, sketching at home, Visage | 5 Comments

Pencil landscapes

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

As a break from ink-brush propaganda here are some pencil landscapes from the Summer. The first is on a lane in Lancashire during a light rain shower, the second and third on the Galloway coast (clouds over the distant Isle … Continue reading →

Posted in blind drawing, clouds, Galloway, landscape, line drawing, pencil, sea, technique | Tagged Blind Boys of Alabama, blind drawing foliage, gum arabic as fixative, pencil landscape sketches, sketch of birds on a wire, sketch of sky at dusk, sketches of Galloway coast, sketching in pencil | 6 Comments

Daily sketch-kit updated

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A simpler kit; less is more, and much lighter in the pocket! Details here…

Posted in brush pen, ink brush, inks, kit, Lexington grey, technique, waterbrush | Tagged Can, home-made water-colour palette, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #40, minimal sketch kit, portable sketching kit, sketching kit, urban sketching kit | 5 Comments

Ink-brush buildings #2

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Another sketch of the rear windows of the Circus (older versions below), this time using the Kuretake #40 ink-brush. Ink-brushes are wonderfully suited to drawing soft, curved and organic subjects (people, clothing, foliage, landscapes etc) so I’m seeing how they work with … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buildings, comparisons, drawing buildings, ink brush, Lexington grey, sketching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath urban sketching, brush pen urban sketching, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Kings Circus Bath, Kuretake #40 #8, Kuretake ink brush, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 4 Comments

Apples and shelves

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The evenings are drawing in, so there’ll be more interior sketches for a few months… Here are recently harvested apples and kitchen shelves, all done with my new preferred kit (Kuretake #40 brush-pen with Lexington grey for line, dilute LG ink in fine … Continue reading →

Posted in domestic, food, fruit, glass, ink brush, kitchen, Lexington grey, watercolour sketch | Tagged Belle and Sebastian, ink brush sketching, kitchen sketches, Kuretake #40 brush pen, sketches of apples, sketches of bottles and jars, sketching at home, sketching technique | Leave a comment

Rising tide

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Ed Mostly

From a visit to Aberporth a couple of years ago, trying out an inflatable canoe (it’s great!). I paddled around the headland to an inaccessible cove near the missile testing range, and sketched the beached canoe as the tide came in… … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, boats, holiday, Lexington grey, monochrome, nautical, sea, Wales, waves | Tagged drawing incoming tide, fountain pen sketch, Lexington grey, Martha and the Muffins, seaside sketching, sketch of a canoe, waves on a beach | 2 Comments

Lots of buskers

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Lots of buskers, mostly in Bath, and some of their audiences (ranging from the totally disinterested to the partially engaged). There’s a few more sketches of barefoot Ben Powell, a bottle-neck slide cigar-box guitar player, and a couple who were accompanying … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buskers, comparisons, figures, ink brush, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bobby Fuller Four, drawing street scenes, drawings of street musicians, ink brush sketching, sketching buskers, sketching in Bath, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 2 Comments

Oxford faces

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I’ll follow Stuart’s advice and post something cheerier and less morbid (mostly). So here’s a range of faces seen on a day trip to Oxford, most from the wonderful Ashmolean Museum, which I’ve posted about before. They span the whole history of portraiture, … Continue reading →