Category Archives: Lexington grey

…and one dog

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Quick brush-pen sketches of anyone who caught my eye while I sat outside Bath Abbey, waiting for the shops to open last Sunday morning. I got faster as I sketched, focussing on eye-line angles and getting head/torso relationships right (scarves make … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, figures, ink brush, Kuretake, Lexington grey, Manchester Symposium, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath Abbey, brush-pen sketching, fast sketches of people, ink-brush urban sketching, Jonny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, Kuretake #8, quick street figure sketching, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Perfect View

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Read from top left to bottom right, six quick pencil and ink-wash sketches on grey paper (white sky and colour added at home) made while walking up Perfect View, dodging occasional passing cars and dog-walkers. The road looks rural, but is in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, comparisons, figures, journeys, Lexington grey, pencil, sequential, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged dilute ink wash shadows, ink brush sketching, James Newton Howard, Lexington grey, Perfect View Bath, sequential sketch, sketch of walking up raod, sketching in Bath, streetview, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Bosky

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Looking up a steep slope past an old yew tree, deep in the mossy/rocky woods below Bath University (Alex and Jim know the spot); followed by the boots that carried me there. The tree sketch line work was done on site, shade and colour … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, boots, botany, brush pen, coloured ink, Lexington grey, rural, technique, trees, white pen | Tagged Kuretake #8 brush pen, Noodlers inks for sketching, Sakura white pen, sketch of boots, sketch of yew tree, sketching in Bath, sketching trees, The Suzan, woodland sketch | 7 Comments

Turn the other cheek

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Left and right profiles of the same model skull, sketched on two consecutive evenings using a thick white pen for initial lines, then dilute grey ink to add form/shadows, and water-colour for background. This skull’s been a favourite and familiar subject since I started … Continue reading →

Posted in death, faces, Lexington grey, monochrome, skulls, white pen | Tagged Lexington grey, memento mori, memento vivere, model skull, Sakura white pen, shade and form, sketch of skull, The Clash, white pen sketch | 2 Comments

Evenin’ all

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Looking up Rivers Street in Bath on a crisp cold evening, nobody about. Here it is on a sunny day courtesy of Streetview. A quick brush-pen sketch, with colour and white highlights added at home. Lexington grey in Kuretake #8 … Continue reading →

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Six pigeons

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sat on my habitual weekend sketching perch, the steps by the back-door to the Roman Baths, overlooking the paved square next to Bath Abbey. The people on the benches were the original focus for the sketch, and then the pigeons … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, benches, brush pen, figures, ink brush, Lexington grey, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath Abbey, brush-pen sketching, Kuretake #40, sketch of people on benches, sketch of pigeons, sketching in Bath, Teenage Fanclub, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Yet more…

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Another seven selfies, in pen, pencil and brush-pen, with the usual self-portrait expressions (aloof, bored, angry, vacant, odd). All done fairly fast as it was late, and sleep beckoned… Both friends and family say there’s little resemblance to me in any of … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, collections, eye, faces, ink brush, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, self-portrait | Tagged brush-pen sketching, ink-brush sketches of faces, LCD Soundsystem, monochrome sketching, sketch selfies, sketching self-portraits | 6 Comments

Manchester Symposium

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Ed Mostly

I’m very excited to have been selected to present a demo (using brush-pens for sketching) and a lecture (on the long and rich history of books about sketching) at this year’s Urban Sketchers International Symposium in Manchester. Yippee! Maybe see you there … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, cafe, figures, ink brush, International Symposium, Lexington grey, people watching, shoppers, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bobby Womack, brush-pen sketching, Kuretake #40, Manchester Symposium, Picnic cafe Bath, sketch of busy shoppers, sketch of street scene, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Six corners

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The same busy corner of a kitchen work-top, sketched on six different evenings, in fountain-pen, brush-pen and pencil. It could probably make a very dull time-lapse; sauce, wine and oil bottles slowly moving around the pepper grinder! Lexington grey in fountain-pen, … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, domestic, ink brush, interiors, kitchen, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, objects | Tagged brush-pen sketching, domestic sketching, fountain pen sketches, ink brush sketching, kitchen sketches, monochrome, sketches of bottles and jars, Supergrass | 2 Comments

A pair of pistols

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The one on the left’s a replica black-powder revolver (each of the six chambers has to be hand-loaded), and the one on the right’s a Magnum (as favoured by this chap). I’ve sketched guns a couple of times before, but always deactivated … Continue reading →