Author Archives: Ed Mostly

About Ed Mostly

Enthusiastic daily sketcher based in Bath Uk

Monochrome set

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Four more experiments sketching on pre-stained paper, this time using a homemade sepia ink for the stain, leaving a white border. From the top there’s a quiet moment in The Waterstones cafe, two busy scenes near Kingsmead Square, and finally … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, cafe, coloured paper, monochrome, street scene, urban, urban sketching, white pen | Tagged cafe sketches, monochrome sketches, sketching in Bath, The Kinks, urban sketching, white pens for sketching | 13 Comments

Pencil selfies

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Ed Mostly

The latest batch of quick late evening mirror selfies from my daily drawing habit. All done using the blackest and least smudgy pencil that I’ve found, the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black. It’s high carbon and low (no?) graphite so the … Continue reading →

Posted in daily drawing, pencil, self-portrait | Tagged daily drawing, Mars Lumograph Black, pencil selfies, Self Portrait Sundays, sketching self from life, Visage | 2 Comments

All aboard…

Posted on October 20, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Waiting at Bath Spa station (you can just see the ghost of a train I tried to draw that left too soon, its windows running across the centre of the sketch)… ..and en route to Shropshire. This fellow passenger was … Continue reading →

Posted in Duke Confucius, fude pen, journeys, monochrome, trains, urban, urban sketching, Wales | Tagged duke confucius drawing, fude pen sketches, Sister Sledge, train sketching, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Pre-coloured pages

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Sorry for the lack of posts since June (!). I accidentally fell out of the social media habit, which I guess is a good thing? Anyway, here are some recent experiments with sketching on pre-inked pages (A4). I’ve always enjoyed … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buskers, coloured paper, Duke Confucius, fude pen, monochrome, street scene, urban, urban sketching, white pen | Tagged cafe sketches, fude ink pen, Joy Division, sketching in Bath, toned paper, urban sketching | 7 Comments

Waiting…

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Ed Mostly

iPad sketches from a visit to hospital for a check-up. (I use an Apple Pencil and Paper by 53 for the drawing app as it’s fairly simple, not too many options to distract!). Further below some previous sketches of people waiting…

Posted in hospital, iPad sketches, people watching, urban, urban sketching, waiting | Tagged Billy Bragg, hospital sketches, iPad urban sketches, Paper by 53 urban sketches, sketches of people waiting, urban sketching | 3 Comments

…and then to France

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Ed Mostly

A second batch of sketches from a recent trip South. First some gouache and pencil sketches on the road over the border, snow-capped Canigou dominating the landscape.Then a quiet weekday corner in Villelongue-dels-Monts, sketched in bamboo dip-pen as a gift for … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, clouds, France, people watching, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged bamboo dip-pen sketch, Bob and Marcia, Franglais, French village sketch, sketching in Collioure, urban sketching | 4 Comments

To Spain…

Posted on May 4, 2019 by Ed Mostly

A fairly long post with the first of two sets of sketches from a recent trip. This is the Spanish batch, with the French ones to follow… The scene at Bristol airport, drawn from an upper level, the busy crowd … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, bamboo dip pen, clouds, dip pen, landscape, Spain, urban, urban sketching | Tagged airplane sketches, bamboo dip pen sketches, Big Train, Collsacabra sketches, L'Avenc, landscape sketches, urban sketching | 11 Comments

Life outdoors

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Ed Mostly

We had four days of unbroken sunshine for the Easter bank holiday weekend, so parks and public spaces were full of people enjoying themselves; here are some of them, drinking tea and smoking e-cigarettes, having an ice-cream, or just sitting and … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, park, people, people watching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen sketches, Belle and Sebastian, sketch of busy park, sketches of Bath, sketching people, urban sketching | 4 Comments

More inky people…

Posted on April 1, 2019 by Ed Mostly

All sketched in Bath, and all in bamboo dip-pen. From the top there’s Seb Guettier busking by the Baths, then Justin Towell busking by the Abbey, Saturday crowds observed from outside a cafe, and finally sketching amongst the chimneys up on … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buskers, monochrome, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen sketches, sketching buskers, sketching in Bath, The Drifters, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Inky people

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Five recent sketches using a bamboo dip-pen for juicy inky lines (which go grey when you blot them). From the top there’s the Saturday market in Stroud (mmm, delicious Portuguese pastries), Seb Guettier busking by Bath Abbey (apologies for the … Continue reading →