Category Archives: landscape

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

Pencil landscapes

Posted on November 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

As a break from ink-brush propaganda here are some pencil landscapes from the Summer. The first is on a lane in Lancashire during a light rain shower, the second and third on the Galloway coast (clouds over the distant Isle … Continue reading →

Posted in blind drawing, clouds, Galloway, landscape, line drawing, pencil, sea, technique | Tagged Blind Boys of Alabama, blind drawing foliage, gum arabic as fixative, pencil landscape sketches, sketch of birds on a wire, sketch of sky at dusk, sketches of Galloway coast, sketching in pencil | 6 Comments

Twilight

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A couple of sketches looking South from Bath towards Stantonbury Hill at dusk, trying to catch the receding planes of trees in the autumnal half-light. And then five earlier attempts at the same view from the last few years, trying out water-colour, coloured … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, comparisons, landscape, Lexington grey, technique, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged Bath sketching, sketches of views from Bath, sketching at dusk, Stantonbury Hill, The Dave Clark Five, urban sketching technique | 1 Comment

Chim chim cher-ee

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More soft pencil sketches; Summer evening views over Bath chimneys and roof-tops to the trees beyond. There’s a couple of seagulls flying home to roost (?) in the first one, and more of the telephone wires I love in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, landscape, pencil, rooftops, seasonal, sky, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged Bath sketches, distant trees, early Summer evening views, pencil sketching, rooftop sketches, rooftop views, seagulls flying, sketches of chimneys, Smokey Robinson, telephone wires, urban sketching | 1 Comment

Mendip views

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A break from urban sketching with some rural pictures! They were all done in the Mendips, which rise above the Somerset Levels and have surprisingly good views for their size. An ink-filled water-brush was perfect for drawing the pattern of trees and hedges in the fields … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, coloured ink, coloured paper, journeys, landscape, seasonal, watercolour sketch | Tagged Brent Knoll, Gorillaz, ink brush sketches, path through fields, rural sketching, sketches of fields, sketches of trees and hedges, Somerset Levels, Steep Holm, the Mendips, watercolour sketches | 4 Comments

Can’t see the wood

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A break from Cordoba with some recent tree sketches, rural and urban. The first two are of an old mossy oak in a wood of mostly Scots Pine, done a couple of months apart. Then a tree in Queen’s Square in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, coloured ink, coloured paper, inks, landscape, trees, urban | Tagged Burton woods, drawing trees, fountain pen sketches, old mossy tree, Queen's Square Bath, sketching in the woods, sketching trees, St Etienne, tree in a clearing, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Take off, in-flight, landing

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Scenes from a flight to Stockholm… A sketchy impression of the rolling patchwork landscape around Bristol airport as the plane took off, random images from a flight safety card (including a wildly optimistic ‘landing on water’), and planes waiting at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport under low … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, landscape, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, sketching, Stockholm | Tagged airport sketch, Arlanda airport, in-flight drawing, landing on water, Lexington grey, Major Lazer, monochrome sketch, patchwork fields, plane safety card, simple figures, sketching planes, take off view | Leave a comment

Stantonbury

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lexington grey broad fountain pen and water-brush, water-colour, A6 – 20 minutes A quick sketch of a familiar view, looking South West towards Stantonbury Hill about 4 miles away. It was a balmy early summer evening, the trees all in leaf, … Continue reading →