Category Archives: flowers

Overcooked?

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Four sketches where I pushed the contrast by using stronger inks and white highlights, including some knobbly autumnal squash. With the last two I had that horrible moment when I realised I’d carried on working on them too long and that there wasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, clouds, coloured ink, flowers, objects, white pen | Tagged coloured ink sketches, sketch of clouds, sketch of flowers, sketch of knobbly squash, Talking Heads | 2 Comments

Magnolias

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Three attempts to catch the rich lusciousness of magnolias blooming in Bath’s Botanical Gardens. For the first and last ones I used fountain pen for the initial drawing, for the second one brush-pen and white roller-ball. The white paper and Payne’s Grey … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, brush pen, coloured paper, comparisons, flowers, garden, urban sketching, white pen | Tagged Bath Botanical Gardens, fountain pen sketches, sketches of flowers, sketches of magnolias, sketching in Bath, The Apples in Stereo, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Comparing flowers and sketches

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More botanical sketching, this time in our back garden. First some new leaves sprouting from a shiny hazel trunk, then Japanese and Chinese wisteria flowers compared. The final sketch is a similar wisteria comparison study, but was done when I’d just started sketching … Continue reading →

Posted in blossom, botany, comparisons, flowers, garden, seasonal, Spring | Tagged botanical sketching, fountain pen sketching, garden sketches, Johnny Cash, progress in sketching, sketch of hazel tree, wisteria sketches | 7 Comments

Weedy

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Spring, sunshine and showers, and months of neglect, so weeds are flourishing in our garden. Each week a different one appears, competing with the others for light and space, and ripe for drawing… First a mostly monochrome sketch of some wild strawberry flowers amongst dandelions and other … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, flowers, garden, grisaille, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, seasonal | Tagged back garden sketching, dandelions, drawing of dandelion, garden sketches, initial line drawings, line drawing of weeds, sketches of weeds, strawberry flowers, The Stairs | 8 Comments

Honeysuckles

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Several attempts to sketch highly fragrant Honeysuckle from the last two years. I enjoyed working out the refractive effects of water and glass as much as drawing the very fiddly flowers… Brown/blue/green Pigma pens, fountain pens with Carbon and Lexington grey ink, water brush … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, flowers, from life, line drawing, sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged fountain pen sketching, glass of water, Honeysuckle, Lexington grey waterbrush, refractive effects, sketching flowers, sketching water refraction, Stephane Grappelli, Yehudi Menuhin | Leave a comment

Spring has sprung

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Pencil, Lexington grey water-brush and fountain pen, watercolour, white Gelly Roll pen, blue Uni Posca brush pen, A5 – various times A double page spread from last weekend, when the weather was fine, the clocks went forward and everyone was out … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, buildings, coloured paper, flowers, from life, park, people, seasonal, sketching, Spring, urban, waiting | Tagged Botanical Gardens, magnolia flower, Mother's day, North Parade Buildings, old couples, park bench, Spring, Uni Posca brush pen, walking sticks, white gelly roll pen | Leave a comment

Hyacinth’s decline

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Bamboo dip-pen pen with dilute Lexington grey ink, water-brush with acrylic ink, A4 – two hours This is probably the last drawing there’ll be of the hyacinth that I’ve been documenting since Christmas. Although the leaves have now collapsed under their own weight and … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, death, dip pen, flowers, from life, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome | Tagged bamboo dip pen, Beatles, brown acrylic ink, decline, dying flower, hyacinth, leaf shadows, Lexington grey ink, long leaves | Leave a comment

Moving picture

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Bamboo dip pen and water-brush with dilute Lexington grey ink, watercolour, A5 – 20 minutes per stage More evidence of Jim’s cleverness. He’s combined scans showing three stages of a sketch into one animated Gif image, creating a clear way to see the … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, flowers, from life, grisaille, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, sequential, sketching | Tagged animated Gif image, animated sketch, Gif picture sequence, hyacinth, line and form, sketch process, Talking Heads | 3 Comments

Hyacinth revisitted

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Bamboo dip-pen pen and water-brush, dilute Lexington grey ink, watercolour, A4 – 20 minutes each Once the hyacinth that I drew a few weeks ago was in full bloom the fragrance/smell became too much, so it went outside. It survived the recent … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, dip pen, flowers, from life, grisaille, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome | Tagged bamboo dip pen, blue flower, Dick van Dyke, flowering bulb, grey ink, hyacinth, Lexington grey ink, long green leaves | 1 Comment

Hyacinth bulb flowering

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Ed Mostly

I was given a Hyacinth bulb, potted in a tiny bucket with moss, before Christmas (thanks Daisy!) and started sketching it. I eventually captured two weeks growth in four pictures, a very primitive time-lapse sequence. In the last sketch the flowers … Continue reading →