Category Archives: from life

Walcot Street

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Night-time view up Walcot Street while waiting for a burger at Schwartz Bros, a Bath institution. It took about 3 minutes to draw the lines on location, and 5 more at home to add the ink wash and yellow highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, night, urban, vehicles, waiting | Tagged night time, pedestrian, Schwartz burgers, street lamp, street scene, Walcot Street | Leave a comment

Sketching fuel

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Ed Mostly

My sketching’s mostly fuelled by Lexington grey, a wonderful ink made by Noodlers in the USA. I use it in almost every sketch I do as it’s rapidly waterproof, but also safe for fountain pens. It works well with water-colour washes, and you … Continue reading →

Posted in from life, grisaille, inks, kit, Lexington grey, monochrome, objects | Tagged Fatboy Slim, fountain pen, grey ink, Ink bottles, Lexington, Noodlers, teapot, Ugg boots, waterbrushes | Leave a comment

Shrubbery steps

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Bath is full of steep footpaths, and I’ve sketched this one several times before, always looking down. Here I’m looking up for a change, on an overcast afternoon. 1mm Pigma pen, water-brush with dilute Lexington grey and Windsor and Newton inks, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, coloured paper, from life, inks, Lexington grey, sketching, urban | Tagged David Bowie, footpath, looking up, steps, The Shrubbery | Leave a comment

Green Park Station

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Saturday morning sketching with Louise and Mark at the farmer’s market in Green Park Station, Bath. (The last train left the station in 1962, part of the notorious Beeching cuts.) The line drawing took about 30 minutes, with another 20 … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, panorama, people, sketching, urban | Tagged Beeching cuts, farmer's market, Green Park Station, Poppy day, Remembrance Sunday, The Monkees | 2 Comments

Many hands

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Drawing hands continues to be a challenge so here are some recent attempts. The first set was while watching TV, pausing the program and drawing any hands in the shot as fast as possible. The second is a range of … Continue reading →

Posted in body, from life, hands, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, TV | Tagged Beastie Boys, Herge, left hand, oservational drawing, Tintin in Tibet, TV stills | 5 Comments

Seasonal skull

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Returning to a favourite model for a Halloween still life. This one’s a full size plastic medical model, bought in a flea market years ago. Skulls are fascinating subjects to draw, loaded with cultural traditions and artistic baggage, and currently appearing on … Continue reading →

Posted in death, from life, Lexington grey, marker pen, objects, skeleton | Tagged Halloween, Kraftwerk, memento mori, memento vivere, skull, Uni Posca | 2 Comments

Sitting

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Three pictures of seated subjects from the same day sketching around Bath. Ceramic ‘Immortals’ at the Museum of East Asian Art, an excellent busker called Ben Powell, and a resting shopper. The last two sketches are tiny, and the black … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, pencil, people, urban, waiting | Tagged Barefoot, Ben Powell, busker, guitar, Immortals, Museum of East Asian Art, musician, seated, shopper, solitary, The Strokes | Leave a comment

The Shrubbery

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Looking down The Shrubbery, a steep path near our home in Bath. You have to squint a bit for it to work, and that’s a conservatory half-way up the house on the left, built on a balcony. (I blended dilute Winsor … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, inks, kit, monument, urban, waterbrush | Tagged city view, complementary colours, Primal Scream, roof tops, steep path, The Shrubbery, Winsor and Newton inks | 2 Comments

Beach life

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Ed Mostly

People watching at the seaside this Summer. The first was drawn at beach level, with nearby families, passing promenaders, distant swimmers and surfers. The second was from a cliff path, the figures tiny and silhouetted on the sunlit beach below; … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, from life, line drawing, monochrome, people, sea | Tagged beach, cliff view, dogs, Dunraven, Lowry, Manorbier, P P Arnold, passers by, people watching, promenaders, Summer, surfers | 2 Comments

Life and death #2 Mostly dogs

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Ed Mostly

More sketches from the recent British Museum Pompeii exhibition. First the famously contorted death-cast of a guard dog, followed by a mosaic door sign (“Cave canem”- beware of the dog) found in the same villa; it’s hard not to see the sign as a portrait … Continue reading →