Category Archives: airport

Summer Scilly Isles sketches

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Ed Mostly

Here’s a belated collection from a June trip to the Scilly Isles, thirty miles West of Land’s End. After months of lockdown and restricted travel the trip felt oddly exotic; being in a propeller airplane helped. From the top there’s … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, coastal, holiday, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged Scilly Isles sketches, sketches of Tresco, The Telescopes, Twin Otter drawing, 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

Homage to Catalonia #1

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Back from a wonderful time in Catalunya, initially in the hills of the Collsacabra near Tavertet, then in Girona city where I enjoyed meeting up with the local Urban Sketchers group. I was mostly using a new larger sketchbook (it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in airport, cars, gouache, holiday, Spain, urban sketching | Tagged airport sketch, drawing of Romanesque church, gouache sketches, L'Avenc, Leftfield, sketches of cliffs, sketches of clouds, sketching in Catalonia, urban sketching | 9 Comments

French Collection 2

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Various sketches from a trip to Southern France at Easter, mostly bamboo dip-pen and watercolour, with some correction pen and ink-brush for variety. I was busy posting these on Facebook at the time, but forgot to put them here… (And … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, brush pen, buildings, France, holiday, landscape, panorama, travel, urban, urban sketching, white pen | Tagged airport sketches, panoramic sketch, sketching in France, sketching on a plane, The Chambers Brothers, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Vacance

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sorry for the absence… Here are some sketches from a trip to Southern France in various media with watercolour washes. A sunny morning at Girona airport (drawn in brush-pen), pure watercolour studies of a mountain in the Eastern Pyrenees, looking … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, Bath, France, rooftops, travel, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged airport sketch, bamboo dip pen, Canigou, Collioure, Hot Butter, moped sketch, Perpignan, urban sketching, watercolour mountain sketches | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in airplane, airport, clouds, figures, journeys, kit, people watching, travel, urban, urban sketching | Tagged airplane sketches, airport sketches, sketch of clouds from plane, sketches of view from plane, sketching fellow passengers, sleeping on benches, The Replacements, urban sketching | 5 Comments

En route

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Fellow passengers on the way to Cordoba; waiting at the airport, sleeping on the plane, and passing time on the train. Pencil works well for larger and more detailed portraits, it can be hard for a face to recover from a poorly placed ink-line… (My previous post got … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, coloured paper, faces, from life, holiday, journeys, monochrome, pencil, people, trains, travel | Tagged airport sketch, drawing of people waiting, Fellow passengers, Leonard Nimoy, sketching on planes, sleeping passengers, travel sketches, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Take off, in-flight, landing

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Scenes from a flight to Stockholm… A sketchy impression of the rolling patchwork landscape around Bristol airport as the plane took off, random images from a flight safety card (including a wildly optimistic ‘landing on water’), and planes waiting at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport under low … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, landscape, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, sketching, Stockholm | Tagged airport sketch, Arlanda airport, in-flight drawing, landing on water, Lexington grey, Major Lazer, monochrome sketch, patchwork fields, plane safety card, simple figures, sketching planes, take off view | Leave a comment

Enough thumbnails, already…

Posted on August 25, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A last example, for now, of travel thumbnails. This time in a taxi from Istanbul airport to a city centre hotel, where we arrived before I could finish the last frame. The driver was puzzled when I showed him the … Continue reading →

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Travel thumbnails #3, planes

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Ed Mostly

More travel thumbnails in gouache, this time the view from an airplane flying Istanbul to London. The window shapes and wing-tips are a bit wonky… All in Black Pigma 1mm pen, water-brush with Lexington grey ink, gouache, A5 Taxiing down the … Continue reading →