Author Archives: Ed Mostly

About Ed Mostly

Enthusiastic daily sketcher based in Bath Uk

Daily sketch kit update

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Ed Mostly

3 months late, but here’s an update to my daily sketch-kit page…

Posted in coloured ink, inks, kit, television, urban sketching | Tagged clips for sketchbook, daily sketch kit, fountain pen sketching, portable sketch kit, simple sketching resources, sketching with water-brushes, urban sketching kit | 2 Comments

A break from Cordoba with some recent tree sketches, rural and urban. The first two are of an old mossy oak in a wood of mostly Scots Pine, done a couple of months apart. Then a tree in Queen’s Square in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, coloured ink, coloured paper, inks, landscape, trees, urban | Tagged Burton woods, drawing trees, fountain pen sketches, old mossy tree, Queen's Square Bath, sketching in the woods, sketching trees, St Etienne, tree in a clearing, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Near the Easter processions…

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Back in Cordoba with people waiting for Easter processions to start, watching them from a balcony, and some band members recovering after hours of playing in the heat! I think drawing groups of figures is my default for ‘urban sketching’; I love picking out … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured ink, coloured paper, Cordoba, figures, from life, holiday, line drawing, monochrome, parades, people, street scene, travel, Uncategorized, urban, waiting | Tagged band members resting, Cordoba sketches, drawing a street scene, figures on a balcony, fountain pen sketching, Mike Nesmith, Semana Santa sketches, simple line drawings of figures, sketching groups of figures, urban sketching, waiting for Easter processions | 4 Comments

Holy Week in Cordoba

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Six Semana Santa processions in Cordoba, great practise for drawing spectators! Each one was subtly different, reflecting the brotherhood they represented; the colours of the pointed hoods, the scenes depicted on the floats, the specific music played. But all shared the thick clouds of incense, the … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, Cordoba, figures, from life, holiday, journeys, parades, people, street scene, travel, urban, watching | Tagged Cordoba sketches, drawing crowds, Easter week parades, Jesus carrying cross, Moby, Pointed hoods, Semana Santa sketches, sketch of Holy Week procession, Sketching crowds watching parades, urban sketching | 5 Comments

Sunshine

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Back to the silvery grey light of England after a week of golden sunshine in Cordoba, Spain. I’ll scan and post the sketches over the next few weeks, including many attempts to capture the Holy Week parades (tall pointy hats, huge … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, Cordoba, from life, holiday, journeys, Lexington grey, monument, people, street scene, travel, trees, urban, watercolour sketch | Tagged Afternoon shade, Cordoba, Cordoba sketches, Cordoba street scene sketch, Court of Oranges, Mezquita, Mezquita bell tower sketch, Palm trees sketch, The Legends, urban sketching | 9 Comments

68 feet

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Commenting on my recent cafe sketches Chris said “How about a focus on feet and shoes for your next post? They drive me mad, and can make or break a quick sketch.” Be careful what you wish for… Here are all the … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, cafe, coloured paper, Feet, from life, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, objects, sculpture, sketching, urban | Tagged cafe sketching, collection of feet, drawing feet, fountain pen sketch, Hokusai manga, ink sketches, Michelangelo's David, Ride, sketching sculpture, sketching shoes, urban sketching | 10 Comments

Japanese shrines

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Four shrines in Japan, where many of the statues wear red bibs (‘yodarekake‘), placed on them as a sign of devotion and usually faded to a soft pink in the sun and the rain. The second sketch is looking down one section … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, coloured ink, figures, Japan, journeys, sculpture, urban | Tagged bullet train sketch, fountain pen sketches, Fushimi Inari-taisha, Iggy Pop, inari, Japanese shrines, Kyoto sketches, sketching in Japan, torii avenue, urban sketching, very fast sketches of people | 5 Comments

In the kitchen

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More late night monochrome sketches, this time corners of the kitchen. In the first sketch I was drawn to the way that strong overhead light made shadows wrap around the apples. In the second one it was the tilted ellipses in the collection of bottles … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, from life, fruit, grisaille, kitchen, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, objects | Tagged domestic scenes, drawing ellipses, drawing jars and bottles, drawing shadows, fruit sketch, kitchen sketches, line and tone, monochrome sketching, overhead light, Peter Gabriel, sketching with fountain pen | 1 Comment

Cafe life

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Ed Mostly

People watching in cafes, mostly this year in Bath, but the last one’s from Istanbul a couple of years ago when I was using a marker pen. If you can get a good table a cafe’s a great winter sketching location; strong light sources, sheltered, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, cafe, clothing, coloured ink, coloured paper, figures, from life, Istanbul, Lexington grey, line drawing, marker pen, monochrome, people, urban, waiting | Tagged Bath cafes, cafe sketching, drawing shoes, fountain pen sketches, Hafiz Mustafa, marker pen sketch, Rolling Stones, sketching people, sketching seated people, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Street parking

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More cars parked up on Bath streets. I didn’t use the acetate grid for these, but did have to work hard to get the relative size of the receding cars correct, to see what was there and not what I … Continue reading →