Category Archives: coloured paper

Car Parklife

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I think a key part of urban sketching is depicting the stuff of everyday life, no matter how banal. So here are three quick views from the car while parked at motorway services during the trip to Scotland and back. That’s it, nothing to add! … Continue reading →

Posted in cars, coloured ink, coloured paper, holiday, journeys, Lexington grey, pencil, travel, urban sketching, vehicles, waiting | Tagged drawing cars, fountain pen sketches, line drawings of cars, motorway services, sketches from a car, sketches of car parks, sketching the banal, sketching while waiting, sketching with ink and pencil, Talking Heads, urban sketching | 3 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

Daily Sketch-kit updated…

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Ed Mostly

There are a few changes since the last update (pencils!), all explained on this page here. One of the key aspects of sketching is having a range of simple and familiar resources, always accessible. My daily carry is pocket-sized, but has … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, inks, kit, Lexington grey, marker pen, pencil, sketching, technique, watercolour sketch, white pen | Tagged daily sketch kit, every day carry sketching, home-made palette, inks for urban sketching, Muji card-case palette, pens for sketching, portable urban sketching kit, tiny water-colour palette, water-brush filled with ink | 2 Comments

Livestock

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More rural sketching: haughty llamas, inquisitive young bulls and nervous Blue-faced Leicesters, all seen last week in Galloway, South-West Scotland. I’ve sketched sheep and cattle before, but never llamas. Their faces reminded me of camels and kangaroos, with pursed lips and striking eye-lashes, and they … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, coloured paper, farm, Galloway, line drawing, pencil, rural | Tagged blue-faced Leicesters, farm sketches, fountain pen sketches, Four Tops, llama faces, pencil sketches of animals from life, rural sketching, sketch of cattle, sketch of llama, sketch of sheep, sketches of animals | 2 Comments

Toys again

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Toys and models are ever-reliable subjects for a quick drawing. You can arrange them how you like, getting a range of angles rarely available in the real world. They’ve also removed any unnecessary details, doing most of the simplification needed for a sketch! Lexington … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, animals, bikes, coloured paper, inks, line drawing, objects, toys | Tagged Chemical Brothers, fountain pen sketches, sketch of motorbike, sketch of toy puma, sketches of model plane, sketches of toys | 2 Comments

Mendip views

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A break from urban sketching with some rural pictures! They were all done in the Mendips, which rise above the Somerset Levels and have surprisingly good views for their size. An ink-filled water-brush was perfect for drawing the pattern of trees and hedges in the fields … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, coloured ink, coloured paper, journeys, landscape, seasonal, watercolour sketch | Tagged Brent Knoll, Gorillaz, ink brush sketches, path through fields, rural sketching, sketches of fields, sketches of trees and hedges, Somerset Levels, Steep Holm, the Mendips, watercolour sketches | 4 Comments

mostly Greek

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More sketches of classical statuary, mostly from the ongoing ‘Defining Beauty‘ exhibition at the British Museum, which is so full of wonderful stuff that I ended up doing very fast drawings with a marker pen, out of sight of the … Continue reading →

Posted in body, coloured paper, exhibitions, figures, London, monochrome, museum, objects, pencil, sculpture, statues | Tagged 'Defining Beauty', Belvedere Apollo, British Museum sketches, drawings of Discobolus, Greek sculpture, marker pen sketches, sketch of Sphinx, sketches of Greek statues, sketches of Socrates, The Coral | 4 Comments

Hands, again

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Ed Mostly

My hands, family member’s hands, stranger’s hands on trains, and hands on porcelain figures. Complicated miniature landscapes of curves, shadows, contours and foreshortenings that make regular appearances in my sketchbooks. As individual and expressive as a face, and always a challenge. No … Continue reading →

Posted in body, collections, coloured ink, coloured paper, family, hands, monochrome, people, people watching, self-portrait | Tagged drawings of hands, hands drawing, hands holding phones, Sandie Shaw, sketches of hands, sketching hands | Leave a comment

Statuesque

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A marble Roman mask of Pan in the Cordoba Archeological Museum, a contemporary brass statue of Siva sat on my desk (distant cousins?), followed by a couple of views of a battered ‘crouching Aphrodite/Venus‘ (also in the Cordoba museum). Lexington grey … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured ink, coloured paper, Cordoba, Lexington grey, monochrome, museum, objects, statues | Tagged Beastie Boys, Cordoba Archeological Museum, crouching Aphrodite statue, drawing of Shiva, Roman mask of Pan, sketch of Aphrodite, sketch of Pan, sketch of statue of venus, sketches of statues, statue of Shiva | 3 Comments

Back in the kitchen

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More monochrome kitchen scenes, with lots of ellipses, variety and repetition in all the jars, cans, bottles and packets. Made a mistake with one? Draw another, and keep going till you fill the page! Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, A5 – … Continue reading →