Category Archives: Lexington grey

Rising tide

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Ed Mostly

From a visit to Aberporth a couple of years ago, trying out an inflatable canoe (it’s great!). I paddled around the headland to an inaccessible cove near the missile testing range, and sketched the beached canoe as the tide came in… … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, boats, holiday, Lexington grey, monochrome, nautical, sea, Wales, waves | Tagged drawing incoming tide, fountain pen sketch, Lexington grey, Martha and the Muffins, seaside sketching, sketch of a canoe, waves on a beach | 2 Comments

Lots of buskers

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Lots of buskers, mostly in Bath, and some of their audiences (ranging from the totally disinterested to the partially engaged). There’s a few more sketches of barefoot Ben Powell, a bottle-neck slide cigar-box guitar player, and a couple who were accompanying … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buskers, comparisons, figures, ink brush, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bobby Fuller Four, drawing street scenes, drawings of street musicians, ink brush sketching, sketching buskers, sketching in Bath, urban sketching, urban sketching technique | 2 Comments

Oxford faces

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I’ll follow Stuart’s advice and post something cheerier and less morbid (mostly). So here’s a range of faces seen on a day trip to Oxford, most from the wonderful Ashmolean Museum, which I’ve posted about before. They span the whole history of portraiture, … Continue reading →

Posted in body, brush pen, faces, grisaille, ink brush, Lexington grey, monochrome, museum, Oxford, people watching, sculpture, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Ashmolean museum, Fayum mummy portrait, Max Greger, museum sketching, sketch of man asleep on train, sketching in Oxford, train sketching, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Return to Arnos Vale…

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Ed Mostly

After our sketchcrawl I returned for another go at sketching the old crematorium oven. I tried an oblique angle this time and used the acetate grid to get the angles right before starting with the ink (see below). I entered the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, cemetery, death, Lexington grey, line drawing, museum, objects, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Arnos vale cemetery, fountain pen sketching, graveyard sketching, James Gurney, Lee Perry, Lexington grey, sketch of crematorium oven, urban sketching | 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

More selfies

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Another batch of late night selfies, including some deliberate attempts to avoid the usual self-portrait surly stare; I’m not sure that they’re any less alarming! All but one were done with my new favourite sketching tool, Kuretake brush-pens, either number 8 (plastic … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, collections, faces, Lexington grey, monochrome, self-portrait | Tagged David Bowie, drawing self-portraits, ink-brush self-portraits, Kuretake #40 #8, Kuretake brush-pens, sketching selfies | 4 Comments

Homework…

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I rarely sketch from photos, but the wonderfully encyclopaedic People of the Twenty-First Century by Hans Eijkelboom is a treasure trove of reference images for the urban sketcher. It’s a beautiful catalogue of real people going about their lives, and copying the pictures … Continue reading →

Posted in faces, figures, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, people, sequential, technique, urban sketching | Tagged 'People of the Twenty First Century', Hans Eijkelboom, ink brush sketching, Malcolm Mclaren, practising urban sketching, sketching from photos, sketching people, sketching urban figures, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Fairly fast

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I had great fun yesterday at our sketch-crawl on the roof of Bath Abbey, I’ll scan and post pictures soon. In the meantime here are some speedy urban sketches from the last few months, using a variety of materials; the lines and basic shadow patterns were done fast … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, drawing buildings, ink brush, kit, Lexington grey, technique, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Chester buildings sketch, DJ Shadow, fast sketching technique, ink brush sketching, Kirkudbright, sketch of burger van, sketch of pub, sketching in Bath, sketching technique, Tide Inn, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Shifting focus

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A couple of attempts to simulate depth of field by using pen for the foreground and ink-brush (and lighter ink) for the background. A partial success? I think the first one’s more effective, partly because the key subject (the mug) is … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, domestic, ink brush, interiors, Lexington grey, objects, technique | Tagged creating depth in a sketch, depth of field in a sketch, domestic sketches, ink brush sketching, interior sketching, The Roses of Success | 6 Comments

End of the line?

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I love a good memento mori, and this is the most striking one I’ve sketched so far. It’s a decommissioned crematorium oven (!) in the museum at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, found while on a sketchcrawl there with the Bristol/South … Continue reading →