Category Archives: monochrome

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 →

Posted in Bath, body, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, sketching, urban, waterbrush | Tagged figure studies, leisure, park, royal crescent, saturday in the park, Small Faces, Summer | 4 Comments

Sintra National palace

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Up on the roof at 7am, sketching Sintra National Palace as the sun rose over the hills. I used a handy folding ruler to draw some pencil guidelines at the start to get the foreground rooflines right, and found that their vanishing … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, from life, journeys, kit, Lexington grey, monochrome, Portugal, sketching, waterbrush | Tagged architecture, chimneys, early morning, gouache, Palace, roofscape, satellite dishes, Sintra, tinted paper | 6 Comments

There, and back again

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Two more airplane sketches, flying to and from Portugal (sketches from Lisbon and Sintra to follow…). On the first flight I had an aisle seat and drew shoes, the strong perspective and my hands sketching. Returning home I had the middle seat so focussed … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, baby, from life, hands, journeys, monochrome, sketching | Tagged creativity and learning, in-flight, Lisbon, sketching self sketching, slice of lemon, water brush | Leave a comment

Headlines

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Revisiting cross-hatching by drawing a concrete dragon’s head at the bottom of the garden. I’m learning to keep the initial guidelines fairly fine, unlike in the Skansen picture, so they don’t unbalance the overall effect. I’m also starting to understand … Continue reading →

Posted in garden, hatching, kit, line drawing, monochrome, objects, sculpture, sketching | Tagged cross-hatching, dragon, head, Lamy Safari | 1 Comment

Now in glorious Technicolor, or not

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A view from the Accademia Bridge in Venice, sketched quickly using a thick marker pen before my family got too bored. Marker pen with carbon ink, A4 As an experiment I used a photo taken at the same time to … Continue reading →

Posted in from life, inks, kit, marker pen, monochrome, sketching, urban, Venice | Tagged Academia Bridge, city, fade to grey, Grand Canal, ink washes, monochrome, tonal values, Venice | 3 Comments

Mum and Dad

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Ed Mostly

My mother and father walking up a hill ahead of me after a good lunch at the Pump Rooms in Bath. Dad is keen to point out that it is a very steep hill, and Mum wants you to know that … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, monochrome, parents, people, urban | Tagged Bath, mum and dad, people, pump rooms, walking | 6 Comments

Night time

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A fast sketch on a cold night on the way back from The Star, an exceptionally fine pub in Bath. Pigma 1mm pen, water-brushes filled with dilute Diamine grey and Chinese sumi ink, A6

Posted in Bath, brush pen, monochrome, night, urban | Tagged Bath, brush pen, city, monochrome, pub, The Star Inn | Leave a comment

Venetian cadavers

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Ed Mostly

More cheery sculptures from Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice (see previous post), this time on the Giovanni Pesaro monument. These two figures are slightly hidden in the shadows, looking like coy zombies emerging from the shower. Pilot V7 pen and … Continue reading →

Posted in death, Frari, monochrome, monument, sculpture, skeleton, Venice | Tagged death, Frari, monochrome, sculpture, Venice, zombie | Leave a comment

Not Casanova

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Ed Mostly

One of the many extravagant and dramatic monuments in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. This one’s for the sculptor Canova (not Casanova, another famous Venetian) and his heart’s buried here. The monument is a large plain pyramid and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Canova, death, Frari, monochrome, monument, pyramid, sculpture, Venice | Tagged Canova, death, Frari, monochrome, pyramid, sculpture, Venice | 1 Comment

In flight

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Ryanair yellow on a flight to Venice. Returned to find that this blog had 20 times the usual number of visitors yesterday… Many thanks to Nina Johansson for posting about my blog on hers! Marker pen with carbon ink, water-brush … Continue reading →