Category Archives: night

Stockholm hot rods

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Ed Mostly

We were surprised and delighted to find a massive unofficial hot-rod rally taking place on Sveavägen, the main drag where we were staying in Stockholm. It was the annual city gathering of ‘raggare’, fans of old American cars and 50’s ‘greaser’ … Continue reading →

Posted in cars, marker pen, night, parades, Stockholm, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged sketch of vintage cadillac, sketching in Stockholm, sketching raggere, sketching vintage cars, Sveavägen car rally, The Suzan, urban sketching | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, buildings, cars, ink brush, International Symposium, Lexington grey, night, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Belle and Sebastian, Kuretake #8, night sketching, Rivers Street Bath, sketch of evening street, sketch of street scene, sketching in Bath, sketching with a brush-pen, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Monochrome flames

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A couple of mid-winter sketches, trying to capture the dancing shapes of a log fire. I drew ‘blind’, watching the flames to catch their individual fluid shapes, feeling out the lines with a pencil, and occasionally looking down at the page to get their location about right. They reminded me … Continue reading →

Posted in blind drawing, coloured paper, fire, from life, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, night, pencil, sketching, watching | Tagged blind drawing, David Bowie, drawing flames, monochrome flames, natural forms, sketch of a log fire, sketching fire, sketching the evanescent | 2 Comments

26 more Japanese commuters

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Ed Mostly

More quick sketches from Japan, this time a collection of commuters at Kyoto main station around 10pm. I was sketching from one of the many high balconies (see below), pleased to catch a couple of salarymen in the middle of a … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, from life, inks, Japan, journeys, kit, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, night, people, trains, urban | Tagged coloured paper, Japanese bowing, Japanese commuters, Kyoto station, monochrome, salarymen, simple sketching kit, sketching commuters, sketching in Japan, sketching with fountain pen, The Jam, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Digital art

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lots more fingers and toes, all drawn late in the evening when there’s nothing else around to sketch. Strange to see my hands age so dramatically as the drawings become more detailed, with more lines and shading… (A range of pens and inks, … Continue reading →

Posted in body, collections, coloured paper, from life, hands, night, self-portrait | Tagged brush pen, drawing feet, drawing hands, drawing own hand, fingers, fingers and toes, Lexington grey ink, Queens of the Stone Age, self-portrait, white gelly roll pen | 2 Comments

Night vision

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Sketching at night presents some extra challenges; cold hands, low light, and increased self-consciousness (“What’s he up to…?”). So these two were done fast by the light of street lamps; the first while waiting for a bus in Larkhall (Streetview link), … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, night, pencil, urban, waiting | Tagged Larkhall, night sketching, Sesame Street, Stevie Wonder, street lamps, The Star Inn, Uni Posca brush pen, white gelly roll pen | 2 Comments

Walcot Street

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Night-time view up Walcot Street while waiting for a burger at Schwartz Bros, a Bath institution. It took about 3 minutes to draw the lines on location, and 5 more at home to add the ink wash and yellow highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, night, urban, vehicles, waiting | Tagged night time, pedestrian, Schwartz burgers, street lamp, street scene, Walcot Street | Leave a comment

A little night music

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Ed Mostly

I was in Istanbul during Ramadan and every night the old city became a family friendly festival with food stalls, craft markets, groups of picnickers, and free open-air concerts, mostly showcasing traditional music. I started this sketch before the band … Continue reading →

Posted in from life, Istanbul, night, people, travel, urban | Tagged Air, coloured paper, concert, crowd, festival, Kelly watch the stars, open air concert, Ramadan | Leave a comment

Mosques at night

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Ed Mostly

I was in Istanbul during Ramadan which meant the streets, squares and mosques were busy till late at night, with families breaking their day’s fast and socialising. I could wander around the centre of the old town as part of … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, from life, Istanbul, line drawing, monument, night, urban, white marker pen | Tagged architecture, Atik Ali Pasha, Blue mosque, Dobie Gray, minaret, mosques, night time, Ramadan, Suleymaniye | Leave a comment

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