Category Archives: inks

Lockdown sketches #3: botanical

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Ed Mostly

Having more time to watch the loveliest Spring I can remember means I’ve been drawing more plant life. Weeds like ivy and bindweed and sticky weed caught my eye at first; I love the way they’re creeping and covering. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, ink brush, inks, park, seasonal, Spring, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged botanical sketches, lockdown sketches, park sketching, sketching in Bath, sketching plants, sketching weeds, The Stairs | 9 Comments

My eyes! My eyes!

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Ed Mostly

A GIF-tastic round-up of some recent sketches, mostly of Bath, showing how water-colour works with drawings done in bamboo dip-pen and coloured ink. I love the way that the coloured ink lines can fade back into the sketch or be brought forward, … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, boats, coloured ink, figures, GIF, inks, kit, technique, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged bamboo dip pen, bamboo dip pen sketches, coloured ink sketches, De Atramentis inks, Frank Black, urban sketching | 8 Comments

Multi-coloured dip-pen

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Ed Mostly

For the last few months nearly all my sketching has been in bamboo dip-pen and multi-coloured inks. I love the juicy draggable lines I get with the dip-pen, the wide variation in width and saturation, and having a range of coloured inks … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, coloured ink, inks, kit, line drawing, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, De Atramentis inks, non-spill ink pots, urban sketching, urban sketching kit | 12 Comments

Testing, testing…

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Ed Mostly

All my sketchbooks have back pages like this, messing around with inks, pens, pencil and paints, seeing how new resources mix with each other on paper; great fun! In amongst the chaos there are occasional serendipitous combinations and miniature abstract … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, coloured ink, inks, kit, pencil, technique | Tagged ink and paint combinations, serendipitous combinations and miniature abstract delights, sketchbooks, testing sketch materials, The Ramones | 2 Comments

Baywatch, day and night

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Two more Summer seaside views, when I was moving from pen to ink-brush for the key elements of a sketch. The first is from a ledge at the top of the North Cliffs, looking across the bay to Tenby old-town, with tree-tops below … Continue reading →

Posted in boats, comparisons, ink brush, inks, landscape, Lexington grey, monochrome, sea, Tenby, Wales, waves | Tagged Belle and Sebastian, cliff-top sketches, coastal sketching, distant view of Tenby, ink-brush landscape sketch, sketch looking along the coast, sketches of Tenby, sketching at night, Tenby life-boat stations | 4 Comments

Six left hands

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Ed Mostly

All the lines were done in brush-pen, loaded with various water-proof inks; Noodlers Brown 41 (the first four), Noodlers Lexington grey (the fifth), and Carbon black (the last). The warm brown ink suits the subject best, merging with the colour wash at times, … Continue reading →

Posted in body, brush pen, coloured paper, hands, ink brush, inks, Lexington grey, seasonal, self-portrait | Tagged brush-pen sketching, ink brush sketching, kuretake ink-brush sketches, Noodlers ink for sketching, sketches of hands, sketching at home, Visage | 5 Comments

Daily sketch-kit updated

Posted on November 16, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A simpler kit; less is more, and much lighter in the pocket! Details here…

Posted in brush pen, ink brush, inks, kit, Lexington grey, technique, waterbrush | Tagged Can, home-made water-colour palette, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #40, minimal sketch kit, portable sketching kit, sketching kit, urban sketching kit | 5 Comments

Same difference

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Compare and contrast time again with three sketches looking down the same street towards the Royal Crescent, while sat under one of the five huge trees in The Circus. The first was done with ink-brush a few days ago (colour wash added … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, comparisons, grisaille, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath, Bath sketches, Brock Street, fountain pen sketching, ink brush sketches, Rolling Stones, The Circus, urban sketching, urban sketching techniques | 7 Comments

Tenby in ink

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The view from Castle Hill, and Tim’s corner barber-shop (“Quality haircuts at fair prices”). I used the acetate grid to mark some key lines in pencil, and then started in the middle with the ink-brush and worked my way out. They’re … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, buildings, church, grisaille, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, rooftops, street scene, Tenby, urban, urban sketching | Tagged ink brush sketches, King Tubby, monochrome ink sketches, sketch looking down street, sketch of barber-shop, sketches of Tenby, street scene sketch, Tenby Castle Hill view, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 6 Comments

A pair of mugs

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Late night cuppas and their shadows, as featured several times before. Just the usual three inks, and I left the table-top unpainted this time. Namiki Blue in fountain pen, Brown 41 and Lexington grey in water-brush, A5 – 30 mins