Category Archives: Lexington grey

Fourty-eight fast faces

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Ed Mostly

First twenty-nine drivers, sketched from the passenger seat while overtaking on the motorway. Their faces were only glimpsed in passing, so I had to quickly memorise the key lines, but they were always in full profile which helped simplify things! … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, cars, collections, faces, ink brush, journeys, Lexington grey, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Bath sketches, brush-pen sketching, collections of faces, fast sketches of faces, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #40 brush pen, Motörhead, sketches from a car, sketching faces with brush-pen, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Domestic sketching

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Shoes, bananas, glasses and bottles; all drawn in November when daylight was short and indoor evening sketching the only option. Now the days have started getting longer, two or three minutes every day, so more outdoor sketching is just over the horizon… Lexington grey … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, domestic, fruit, Lexington grey, monochrome, objects | Tagged brush-pen sketching, Crosby Stills and Nash, domestic sketching, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #8 brush pen, sketch of bananas, sketch of glasses, sketches of shoes, sketching around the home | 2 Comments

Winter crowds

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Bath’s Christmas shoppers filling the wet streets (a festive carousel in the far distance), battling the wind and rain, pacing the pavements, queuing for the bus home, and generally milling around town. All sketched using my new best friend, the Kuretake #8 brush-pen, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, dogs, figures, ink brush, Lexington grey, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged brush pen urban sketching, ink brush sketches, pavement, sketches of feet walking, sketches of people with umbrellas, sketches of shoppers, sketching in Bath, sketching street scenes, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Drink?

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More wrestling with ellipses, reflections, distortions and translucency. Coloured paper and white water-colour’s a great combination for these late night studies. Lexington grey in Kuretake #8 ink-brush and water-brush, watercolour, A5 – a range of times, but fairly fast as it was … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, coloured paper, domestic, glass, Lexington grey, monochrome, objects | Tagged coloured paper and white water-colour, drawing mugs and glasses, LCD Soundsystem, sketches of glasses, sketches of mugs, sketching ellipses, sketching glass, translucency in sketching | Leave a comment

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

Barry’s book #1

Posted on November 28, 2015 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 it, so once a month I go round to … Continue reading →

Posted in Barry's book, collections, domestic, hands, illustration, Lexington grey, objects | Tagged illustrating a book, sketch of boots, sketch of car interior, sketch of Doc Martens, sketch of interior staircase, sketch of skin-care tubes, sketches of hands, Steve Reich | 5 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

Ink-brush buildings #2

Posted on November 14, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Another sketch of the rear windows of the Circus (older versions below), this time using the Kuretake #40 ink-brush. Ink-brushes are wonderfully suited to drawing soft, curved and organic subjects (people, clothing, foliage, landscapes etc) so I’m seeing how they work with … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buildings, comparisons, drawing buildings, ink brush, Lexington grey, sketching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath urban sketching, brush pen urban sketching, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Kings Circus Bath, Kuretake #40 #8, Kuretake ink brush, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 4 Comments

Apples and shelves

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The evenings are drawing in, so there’ll be more interior sketches for a few months… Here are recently harvested apples and kitchen shelves, all done with my new preferred kit (Kuretake #40 brush-pen with Lexington grey for line, dilute LG ink in fine … Continue reading →