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Author Archives: Ed Mostly
Back in the city
“Hey, I am just a city boy, I’m really not the country kind, I miss the city streets and the neon lights. See the train comin’ round the bend…” The first sketch is a passenger on a train back to the city (Bath, not … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, cafe, figures, hands, line drawing, people watching, trains, urban sketching, waiting
Tagged cafe sketch, fountain pen sketches, seated figures, sketching in Bath city, sketching people in the city, sketching people on train, sketching people using phones, urban sketching, Velvet Underground
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Mendip views
A break from urban sketching with some rural pictures! They were all done in the Mendips, which rise above the Somerset Levels and have surprisingly good views for their size. An ink-filled water-brush was perfect for drawing the pattern of trees and hedges in the fields … Continue reading
Posted in clouds, coloured ink, coloured paper, journeys, landscape, seasonal, watercolour sketch
Tagged Brent Knoll, Gorillaz, ink brush sketches, path through fields, rural sketching, sketches of fields, sketches of trees and hedges, Somerset Levels, Steep Holm, the Mendips, watercolour sketches
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mostly Greek
More sketches of classical statuary, mostly from the ongoing ‘Defining Beauty‘ exhibition at the British Museum, which is so full of wonderful stuff that I ended up doing very fast drawings with a marker pen, out of sight of the … Continue reading
Posted in body, coloured paper, exhibitions, figures, London, monochrome, museum, objects, pencil, sculpture, statues
Tagged 'Defining Beauty', Belvedere Apollo, British Museum sketches, drawings of Discobolus, Greek sculpture, marker pen sketches, sketch of Sphinx, sketches of Greek statues, sketches of Socrates, The Coral
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Comparing flowers and sketches
More botanical sketching, this time in our back garden. First some new leaves sprouting from a shiny hazel trunk, then Japanese and Chinese wisteria flowers compared. The final sketch is a similar wisteria comparison study, but was done when I’d just started sketching … Continue reading
Ink brush sketching
Here’s another collection of people in town, this time a monochrome set, done with a water-brush filled with dilute ink for speed. They were sketched one afternoon while sat outside a cafe in early Spring, hence the scarves and big coats. The last of the … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, body, brush pen, clothing, Feet, figures, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching, waterbrush
Tagged brush pen urban sketching, drawing walking feet, sketches from a cafe, sketches of people passing by, sketching in Bath, sketching people on the move, The Monochrome Set, urban sketching people, water-brush filled with ink
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Hands, again
My hands, family member’s hands, stranger’s hands on trains, and hands on porcelain figures. Complicated miniature landscapes of curves, shadows, contours and foreshortenings that make regular appearances in my sketchbooks. As individual and expressive as a face, and always a challenge. No … Continue reading
Mind the Gap
Spring has sprung and people are out and about, enjoying the extra light and air. Here’s a batch of recent sketches of the public around Bath, mostly in parks. The limited range of colours makes them look oddly like Gap adverts! (the wonderful original track … Continue reading
Posted in Bath, clothing, coloured ink, figures, line drawing, people, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching
Tagged blow up a go-go, drawing passers by, fountain pen sketches, James Clark, simple figure drawing, sketching in parks, sketching people around town, urban sketching
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Statuesque
A marble Roman mask of Pan in the Cordoba Archeological Museum, a contemporary brass statue of Siva sat on my desk (distant cousins?), followed by a couple of views of a battered ‘crouching Aphrodite/Venus‘ (also in the Cordoba museum). Lexington grey … Continue reading
Posted in coloured ink, coloured paper, Cordoba, Lexington grey, monochrome, museum, objects, statues
Tagged Beastie Boys, Cordoba Archeological Museum, crouching Aphrodite statue, drawing of Shiva, Roman mask of Pan, sketch of Aphrodite, sketch of Pan, sketch of statue of venus, sketches of statues, statue of Shiva
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Edding 30 marker pen
I’ve used marker pens before, reloaded with different inks, with some mixed results. I tried a new one when I went to London last week. The bold lines were great for very fast sketches, and the ink is water-based (so doesn’t ‘bleed through’ the page), fast drying and … Continue reading
Posted in figures, from life, inks, kit, line drawing, London, marker pen, musicians, people, sketching, technique, urban, urban sketching
Tagged Edding 30, Great Western Railway Paddington Band, James Hobbs, London sketches, marker pen sketches, sketch of crows, sketch of police, sketch of sketcher, sketch of tube travellers, The Clash, urban sketching
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Back in the kitchen
More monochrome kitchen scenes, with lots of ellipses, variety and repetition in all the jars, cans, bottles and packets. Made a mistake with one? Draw another, and keep going till you fill the page! Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, A5 – … Continue reading
Posted in collections, coloured ink, coloured paper, domestic, home, kitchen, line drawing, marker pen, monochrome, objects
Tagged domestic sketches, drawing ellipses, drawings of bottles and jars, Hot Chip, kitchen sketches, lexington grey sketch, monochrome sketching, sketching at home, sketching collections of objects, water-brush sketches
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