Category Archives: Lexington grey

Londoners

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Ed Mostly

19 of the thousands of people I saw yesterday in a very hot London. Sketched in cafes, train stations and the passport office where I was getting my passport renewed at extremely short notice ready for a return trip to Istanbul … Continue reading →

Posted in from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, sketching, urban, waiting | Tagged cafe, London, pigma pens, profiles, station | 1 Comment

Brock Street

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Late afternoon, looking down Brock Street while sat under one of the huge plane trees in the centre of the King’s Circus, Bath. There’s a red sight-seeing bus heading towards towards the Royal Crescent, and a delivery van parked up … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, gouache, Lexington grey, sketching, urban | Tagged architecture, Bath stone, Brock Street, heatwave, Kings Circus, Marthe Reeves, plane treees | Leave a comment

Toy museum

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A couple of sketches from the wonderful and surprisingly large Toy Museum in Sintra, Portugal. The museum houses the personal collection of João Arbués Moreira, who was there on the day we visited, keen to chat about his favourite exhibits and … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, collections, exhibitions, from life, grisaille, Lexington grey, monochrome, museum, objects, Portugal, sketching | Tagged doll's heads, dolls, Edwin Starr, heads, model plane, Sintra, staircase | 3 Comments

‘Fail better’ #2

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Another repeated subject, with 4 versions of a familiar view where I regularly have to wait. The cars change, a notice is tied onto the lamp-post, a badly drawn traffic cone appears, and a bird flies over. But the basic … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, sketching, urban | Tagged Fail better, lamp-post, pavement, The Kinks | Leave a comment

Scarlet tiger moth

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A silent visitor to our garden on a very hot afternoon, a Scarlet Tiger moth. There’s a tiny glimpse of the moth’s glorious scarlet inner wings just visible at the base of the centre line. Its Latin name, Callimorpha Dominula, could … Continue reading →

Posted in from life, garden, insects, Lexington grey, seasonal, sketching | Tagged Captain Scarlet, moth, nature, scarlet, Scarlet Tiger moth, Summer | Leave a comment

Strangeness abounding

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Ed Mostly

3 more sketches from the wonderful and mysterious gardens of the Quinta Da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal. Looking up from the bottom of the 27 metre deep “Initiation Well” or “Initiatic Well”. It has a secret entrance at the top and … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, from life, garden, gouache, Lexington grey, Portugal, sketching, sky, travel | Tagged animal statues, gargoyles, grotto, Initiation well, looking up, Quinta Da Regaleira, The Monkees | 3 Comments

Car window thumb-nails

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Quick thumb-nails sketched last weekend on the road back from North Devon. Spot the trailer-load of toilets being delivered to the Glastonbury Festival site, which is about 25 miles from Bath. All that wonderful music, just down the road from here. … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, from life, journeys, Lexington grey, sketching, travel, waterbrush | Tagged Canned Heat, cars, coloured paper, Glastonbury, road, thumb nails, traffic | 1 Comment

Black tea isn’t…

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Ed Mostly

…it’s golden brown. Breaking in a new sketch book with a familiar cuppa. Fountain pen and water-brushes with lexington grey ink, white Gelly Roll pen, watercolour, A5

Posted in from life, home, Lexington grey, objects, waterbrush | Tagged cuppa, gelly roll, golden brown, mug, tea, the stranglers | Leave a comment

TV thumbnails

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Using the pause button to do lots of quick thumbnail sketches while watching late night television. Good for trying to catch the key lines and shapes. Not happy with the sketch? Do another one. Still not entirely happy? Do another. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lexington grey, monochrome, people, sketching, thumbnails | Tagged In the morning, television, The Coral | 1 Comment

Park life

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A warm and sunny Saturday in the park, people reading, chatting and sunbathing, covering the lawn in front of the Royal Crescent. A great chance to do lots of fast and simple figure studies of people at rest. Fountain pen and water-brushes with … Continue reading →