Category Archives: cemetery

A country walk…

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Some Springtime rural sketching, mostly colour, with an intense black and white interlude. I’d set off across the fields to sketch Shotwick graveyard with its toppling stones and collapsing tombs, but ended up getting distracted en route, drawing pylons and a … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, cemetery, church, farm, journeys, rural, urban sketching | Tagged Mahalia Jackson, Shotwick village, sketch of farmyard, sketches of graveyard, sketching pylons, urban sketching | 10 Comments

Return to Arnos Vale…

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Ed Mostly

After our sketchcrawl I returned for another go at sketching the old crematorium oven. I tried an oblique angle this time and used the acetate grid to get the angles right before starting with the ink (see below). I entered the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, cemetery, death, Lexington grey, line drawing, museum, objects, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Arnos vale cemetery, fountain pen sketching, graveyard sketching, James Gurney, Lee Perry, Lexington grey, sketch of crematorium oven, urban sketching | 6 Comments

End of the line?

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I love a good memento mori, and this is the most striking one I’ve sketched so far. It’s a decommissioned crematorium oven (!) in the museum at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, found while on a sketchcrawl there with the Bristol/South … Continue reading →