Category Archives: Lexington grey

Ubiquitous, invisible

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Ed Mostly

A while ago I became fascinated by the strings of cars I passed as I moved around the city; always there, curling round the city’s contours, but rarely noticed… The mania passed, but it was good practise! (All done when … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, cars, collections, Lexington grey, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Bert Kaempfert, sketches of cars, sketching in Bath, street scenes, urban sketching | 8 Comments

Nineteen musicians and two train-spotters

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Ed Mostly

A jazz band in Oswestry (my sister’s playing saxophone) sketched from the balcony of the old chapel they rehearse in… …Nik Jovcic-Sas busking in front of the queue for the Roman Baths… …an acapella group singing Bulgarian and Romanian folk songs … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buskers, coloured ink, Lexington grey, musicians, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, bamboo dip pen sketches, sketch of jazz band, sketching in Bath, sketching musicians, The Fast Show, The Soup Dragons, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Three corners

Posted on October 22, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Three sketches of the wonderfully ornate Victorian building on the corner of Westgate and Union Street in Bath. There’s about a year between each sketch, the most recent at the top, with a shift from fountain pen to bamboo dip-pen, and … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buildings, coloured ink, drawing buildings, Lexington grey, monochrome, street scene, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, De Atramentis inks, sketch of ornate building, sketching in Bath, Top Cat, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Barry’s book

Posted on September 24, 2016 by Ed Mostly

My friend Barry is writing a book about his recent experience of learning to use a wheelchair and the wider impact this has had on his life. He’s kindly asked me to illustrate the reflections and anecdotes; some are positive, … Continue reading →

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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

Down and up the path

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Ed Mostly

First a four panel sequential sketch, done in brush-pen while walking down The Shrubbery, a steep local path, last month. Then the same view as the last panel a couple of years ago, and finally the view looking back up The … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buildings, ink brush, Lexington grey, monochrome, sequential, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bomb the Bass, ink brush sketching, sequential sketches, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Improving a brush-pen

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Ed Mostly

My favourite media for urban sketching is brush-pen (Inktense pencils a close second), and my favourite brush-pen is the Kuretake #8. It’s the cheapest (direct from Japan here), has great ink-flow (the Pentel is very dry), the brush is springy (firmer than … Continue reading →

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City life

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Ed Mostly

People about town; waiting for the lights to change so they can cross the road (excellent fast sketching opportunity, the tableau changes every couple of minutes…), watching a busker (the violin playing slack-rope walker I’ve sketched before, see below), dodging … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buskers, figures, ink brush, Kuretake, Lexington grey, monochrome, people watching, shoppers, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged brush-pen sketching, Manchester Symposium, monochrome, Seu George, sketching in Bath, sketching people at gallery, sketching people in the rain, sketching street scenes, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Bath Half

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sunday was the annual Bath half-marathon, with great weather helping over twelve thousand runners pace the streets. It’s an amazing and moving spectacle, with a huge variety of people running for lots of different causes, some very personal and some very … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, figures, ink brush, Lexington grey, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath half-marathon, brush-pen sketching, John Gregory, Kuretake #8, Lexington grey, sketch of marathon, sketching in Bath, sketching runners, urban sketching | Leave a comment

More illustrations

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

An antique phone, a g-clamp, and nine leather jackets; all from life, and all illustrating a particular story in Barry’s book. It’s interesting to be using fountain-pen for these, as almost all my daily sketching is now done using brush-pens. Pen-lines have … Continue reading →