Category Archives: drawing buildings

Virtually sketching

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Ed Mostly

Lockdown’s lack of group sketch-crawls has led to regular virtual meet-ups. Using Google Streetview you can freely wander a static location, get lost in side-streets and find a view that suits, joined by other sketchers on Zoom. Transcribing photos/2d images … Continue reading →

Posted in drawing buildings, Istanbul, Portugal, Spain, street scene, urban, virtual sketching | Tagged Google Streetview, Istanbul sketch, James Gurney, Lee Perry, Liver building sketch, sketch of Alhambra, sketch of Varanasi, virtual sketching | Leave a comment

Back to front with gouache

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Maru Godas’ work and the arrival of sunshine have inspired me to give gouache another chance. I’m enjoying exploring its flexible sketchy possibilities, love the physical presence that opaque colour has on the paper, and it’s speeded up some aspects of … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, drawing buildings, gouache, palettes, pencil, sketching, technique, urban, urban sketching, white marker pen | Tagged Amerigo Gazaway, gouache and ink drawing, gouache sketches, Maru Godas, Schmincke gouache, sketching palette, urban sketching, white sketching pens | 10 Comments

Rear windows

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Ed Mostly

The back of an old terrace of canal-side houses seen from Chester city walls, and a sketch looking right through a house on Camden terrace in Bath. Usually older buildings are more interesting to draw than new (lots of accretions, additions, alterations, patina…), … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, drawing buildings, urban, urban sketching | Tagged backs of buildings, bamboo dip pen sketches, Jonny Cash, sketching buildings, sketching in Bath, sketching rear views, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Skylines

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sorry for the lack of posts here recently (and thanks to Chris for the reminder!). I’ve got into a habit of posting my urban sketches to the USk Facebook page, leaving just the more domestic ones for the blog. So … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, buildings, drawing buildings, Manchester Symposium, monochrome, Stockholm, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, bamboo dip pen sketches, manchester panorama, Manchester Symposium, stockholm panorama, The Searchers, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Allotment views

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The same view (backs of Bath buildings from some allotments) sketched three times on separate days. All late afternoon/early evening, all in bamboo dip-pen, all in coloured ink (including an oddly muddy grey De Atramentis blend) but all a bit different as … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buildings, coloured ink, drawing buildings, rooftops, urban, urban sketching, white pen | Tagged bamboo dip pen, bamboo dip pen sketches, De Atramentis inks, Happy Mondays, sketch of rooftops, sketching backs of buildings, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Three corners

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Three sketches of the wonderfully ornate Victorian building on the corner of Westgate and Union Street in Bath. There’s about a year between each sketch, the most recent at the top, with a shift from fountain pen to bamboo dip-pen, and … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buildings, coloured ink, drawing buildings, Lexington grey, monochrome, street scene, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, De Atramentis inks, sketch of ornate building, sketching in Bath, Top Cat, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Funchal neighbourhood

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Yet more from Madeira… Fellow customers at our local bakery/cafe, a first floor view looking down the street we were staying in to the mountains beyond, and a much extended house on a steep street nearby (slightly Seuss-like with tower, external … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, cafe, drawing buildings, Inktense, Madeira, monochrome, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged cafe sketching, Derwent Inktense pencils, sketch in Funchal cafe, sketching buildings, sketching in Madeira, The Stairs, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Twilight

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Ed Mostly

It’s either late afternoon or early evening. Lights are coming on but the sky is still reflected in the car windows, colour’s fading from the cars, buildings and people. That’s the back of the Royal Crescent silhouetted in the background, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, drawing buildings, figures, ink brush, rooftops, street scene, twilight, Uncategorized, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath sketching, brush-pen sketching, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #8, Memory Tapes, sketch of street at twilight, street lamps, urban sketching | 8 Comments

Dusky

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Midwinter twilights in Bath; low light, muted colours, an occasionally dramatic big sky, silhouetted rooftops and chimneys, hazy views, and cold fingers while sketching… Happy New Year! Kuretake #40 and water brush with Lexington grey, pencil, watercolour, A5 – various … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, drawing buildings, ink brush, rooftops, street scene, twilight, urban, urban sketching | Tagged brush pen urban sketching, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #40, sketches of skies, sketching in Bath, street-scenes at dusk, The Hotrats, twilight sketches, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Ink-brush buildings #2

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Another sketch of the rear windows of the Circus (older versions below), this time using the Kuretake #40 ink-brush. Ink-brushes are wonderfully suited to drawing soft, curved and organic subjects (people, clothing, foliage, landscapes etc) so I’m seeing how they work with … Continue reading →