Category Archives: buildings

Harbour life #1

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Four sketches of low tide at Tenby Harbour Beach this Summer. First some boats moored to the harbour wall (white Gelly Roll pen invaluable for the ropes), then small dinghies being taken out for a day’s sailing. The third one is from Castle … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, boats, brush pen, buildings, comparisons, holiday, ink brush, nautical, urban, urban sketching, Wales | Tagged boat names, boats at low tide, harbour scene, ink brush sketching, nautical sketches, Rozi Plain, sketching boats, Tenby harbour, Tenby Harbour Beach, twilight sketching | 7 Comments

Ink-brush buildings

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Following on from my experiments in sketching with an ink-filled water-brush I dug out an old Platinum fude brush pen. The nylon brush-tip’s a bit shredded so it’s not very detailed, but the ink flow is hugely better than the very popular Pentel … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buildings, drawing buildings, ink brush, Lexington grey, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Bath streets, fude brush sketches, ink brush sketching, sketches of Bath, sketching street scenes, The Libertines, urban sketching, urban sketching kit, urban sketching technique | 8 Comments

Outdoor museum

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The Weald and Downland Museum is a collection of old buildings that have been saved from dereliction and demolition and given a new home. It’s like a much smaller, rural English version of Skansen, the wonderful original ‘open air museum’ in … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, buildings, drawing buildings, ink brush, monochrome, museum, rural, technique | Tagged drawing of anvils, pavement, rural sketching, sketch of hover-fly, sketch of poppy heads, sketch of shady interior, sketch of smithy, sketch of thatched cottage, Weald and Downland Museum | 4 Comments

Same difference

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Compare and contrast time again with three sketches looking down the same street towards the Royal Crescent, while sat under one of the five huge trees in The Circus. The first was done with ink-brush a few days ago (colour wash added … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, comparisons, grisaille, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath, Bath sketches, Brock Street, fountain pen sketching, ink brush sketches, Rolling Stones, The Circus, urban sketching, urban sketching techniques | 7 Comments

Tenby in ink

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The view from Castle Hill, and Tim’s corner barber-shop (“Quality haircuts at fair prices”). I used the acetate grid to mark some key lines in pencil, and then started in the middle with the ink-brush and worked my way out. They’re … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, buildings, church, grisaille, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, rooftops, street scene, Tenby, urban, urban sketching | Tagged ink brush sketches, King Tubby, monochrome ink sketches, sketch looking down street, sketch of barber-shop, sketches of Tenby, street scene sketch, Tenby Castle Hill view, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 6 Comments

More marker pen

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Ed Mostly

St Nicholas’ Church in Burton, Cheshire, and another one of busy kitchen shelves, both sketches using fairly strong perspective, vertical and horizontal. The church was built out of sandstone in 1720 in a very plain style, and the clock only has one hand, dating ‘from a time … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, church, coloured paper, domestic, home, marker pen, monochrome, objects | Tagged drawing of church tower, kitchen sketch, marker pen sketching, perspective in sketches, Sidney Barnes, sketch of jars and packets, sketch of kitchen shelves, sketching on coloured paper, St Nicholas Church Burton, water-brush shading | 2 Comments

More pencil

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I’m still enjoying using the Grafwood 6B pencil, with no rubbing out so no hesitant and uncommitted lines! It’s very smooth, perfect for quick contour sketches of people, and can go from light to dark with the lightest touch. Here … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, eye, figures, line drawing, pencil, people, self-portrait, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Jr Walker and The All Stars, pencil drawings of people, pencil sketches around town, selfie pencil sketch, sketch of windows, sketching in Bath, sketching people, sketching people walking, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Chim chim cher-ee

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More soft pencil sketches; Summer evening views over Bath chimneys and roof-tops to the trees beyond. There’s a couple of seagulls flying home to roost (?) in the first one, and more of the telephone wires I love in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, landscape, pencil, rooftops, seasonal, sky, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged Bath sketches, distant trees, early Summer evening views, pencil sketching, rooftop sketches, rooftop views, seagulls flying, sketches of chimneys, Smokey Robinson, telephone wires, urban sketching | 1 Comment

In praise of pencils

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I’ve tried to like pencils, really I have. I love their woody simplicity, but never found one that felt right on the paper (too waxy, too smudgy etc). But a couple of weeks ago I tried a Grafwood 6B. It’s consistently … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, blind drawing, buildings, cars, figures, hands, kit, line drawing, pencil, people, street scene, technique, urban, urban sketching | Tagged drawing of hand, pencil sketches of people, pencil street-scenes, sketches of Bath, urban sketching, urban sketching kit, water-colour rose | 7 Comments

Inside the Mezquita

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Back in Cordoba, this time inside the Mezquita. The first sketch is an attempt to describe the famous forest of columns, mostly inhabited by tourists; as the columns recede in all directions it feels slightly like being in an Escher … Continue reading →