Category Archives: fruit

Apples and beets

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Ed Mostly

More domestic than urban, some quick pencil and watercolour sketches from the late night kitchen, trying to break my over-reliance on dilute Lexington grey for tone/shadow! Although the grey ink wash is very fast and effective for quick shadows, it can make … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, domestic, food, fruit, kit, kitchen, Lexington grey, pencil, technique, watercolour sketch | Tagged 5B Grafwood pencil, observational drawing, pencil sketches of fruit, sketches of apples, sketching fruit, The Shadows, watercolour sketches of fruit | Leave a comment

Madeiran market

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Just back from Madeira, a beautiful sub-tropical Portuguese island, 360 miles west of Morocco. Many sketches to share, starting with the main fruit and flower market in Funchal, the capital. I used an acetate grid to mark out key lines, then sketched fairly loosely in … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, fruit, holiday, Madeira, markets, pencil, people, travel, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Brother Bones, Funchal market, pencil sketch of market, sketch of Funchal market, sketching in Madeira, urban sketching, yellow umbrellas | 5 Comments

Domestic sketching

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Shoes, bananas, glasses and bottles; all drawn in November when daylight was short and indoor evening sketching the only option. Now the days have started getting longer, two or three minutes every day, so more outdoor sketching is just over the horizon… Lexington grey … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, domestic, fruit, Lexington grey, monochrome, objects | Tagged brush-pen sketching, Crosby Stills and Nash, domestic sketching, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #8 brush pen, sketch of bananas, sketch of glasses, sketches of shoes, sketching around the home | 2 Comments

Barry’s book #2

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Another five illustrations for Barry’s book, all from life, illustrating various anecdotes and reflections. The holidays are approaching so there’s a fair chance I’ll get more done soon… Lexington grey in fountain-pen and water-brush, watercolour, A4 – about 1 hour each

Posted in Barry's book, domestic, fruit, grisaille, illustration, line drawing, monochrome, objects | Tagged Andy Williams, domestic sketching, fountain pen sketching, grisaille sketches, Simon & Garfunkel, sketch of bookshelves, sketch of hand holding pass, sketch of lemons, sketch of suitcases, tyre tracks | 4 Comments

Apples and shelves

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The evenings are drawing in, so there’ll be more interior sketches for a few months… Here are recently harvested apples and kitchen shelves, all done with my new preferred kit (Kuretake #40 brush-pen with Lexington grey for line, dilute LG ink in fine … Continue reading →

Posted in domestic, food, fruit, glass, ink brush, kitchen, Lexington grey, watercolour sketch | Tagged Belle and Sebastian, ink brush sketching, kitchen sketches, Kuretake #40 brush pen, sketches of apples, sketches of bottles and jars, sketching at home, sketching technique | Leave a comment

In the kitchen

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More late night monochrome sketches, this time corners of the kitchen. In the first sketch I was drawn to the way that strong overhead light made shadows wrap around the apples. In the second one it was the tilted ellipses in the collection of bottles … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, from life, fruit, grisaille, kitchen, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, objects | Tagged domestic scenes, drawing ellipses, drawing jars and bottles, drawing shadows, fruit sketch, kitchen sketches, line and tone, monochrome sketching, overhead light, Peter Gabriel, sketching with fountain pen | 1 Comment

Skulls

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A bit late for Halloween, but here are some recent skull sketches. The first is of the full-size medical model that I’ve drawn many times before. I love its tricky curves and deep hollows, and the brown and blue inks combine to … Continue reading →

Posted in animal, body, coloured ink, death, fruit, inks, Japan, Lexington grey, monochrome, skulls | Tagged ape skull, different views of an object, drawings of skulls, fountain pen sketches, human skull, macaque skull, monochrome sketches, Noodlers inks for sketching, sketching in ink, skull netsuke, The Kinks | 1 Comment

One bad apple

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Another go at mostly painting, just using pencil lines for the overall shape and some pens for the lettering on the sticker. I usually add water-colour at the end of a sketch, after establishing line and shade with ink. Here it … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, food, from life, fruit, objects, pencil, sketching, technique, watercolour sketch, white pen | Tagged braeburn apple, Broken Bells, observational panting of apple, painting fruit, rotting apple, sketch of an apple, sketching fruit, watercolour sketch | Leave a comment

Mostly painting

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Ed Mostly

I’ve been reading ‘Urban Watercolor Sketching’ by Felix Scheinberger (here’s Tina’s review). It’s not very ‘urban’, but I recommend it as an enthusiastic, conversational and practical guide to water-colour sketching, with a strong focus on the power of colour. So I’m trying to be a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in colour, from life, fruit, kit, line drawing, technique, watercolour sketch | Tagged 'Urban Watercolor Sketching', apples, bananas, Billie Holiday, cake stand, Felix Scheinberger, fruit sketches, line drawing, oranges, watercolor sketching | 2 Comments

Late night snacks

Posted on June 21, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Some late night table-top sketches, keeping up the daily drawing commitment; a square glass mug of oolong, a bunch of bananas, and almond butter and jam on oatcakes with a glass of milk…yum. I was very tired by the time I did these and … Continue reading →