Category Archives: people watching

A mixed bag

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Ed Mostly

This month I have been mostly using Caran d’Ache Luminance pencils, in ‘dark indigo’. They’re my new favourite mark-maker; soft and responsive on the paper, lots of pigment for rich lines, and barely any smudging. They combine well with watercolour, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, benches, collections, figures, pencil, people watching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Caran d'Ache Luminance sketches, pencil sketches from life, sketching in Bath, traffic, urban sketching, Wonka | 5 Comments

Post lockdown park-life

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Ed Mostly

Here are around 170 people enjoying fresh-air, benches, sunshine, ice-creams, solitude and company. It’s been busy busy busy in Bath’s parks, not surprising with fine weather after months of lockdown. Due to foreshortening, trying to fit them all onto the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, Duke Confucius, figures, park, people watching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath sketching, DJ Shadow, ice-cream van sketch, park sketches, sketches of people in parks, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Lockdown #2: people (and birds)

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Ed Mostly

Given social distancing I’m having to be more resourceful to sketch my favourite subject… Here’s a 2m distanced supermarket queue, neighbours sat outside their front doors on VE day, a man doing tai-chi in the park, three Zooming sketchers watching … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, dip pen, figures, line drawing, park, people watching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged lockdown sketching, sketching in Bath, tai chi sketch, The Clash, urban sketching, Zoom portraits | 5 Comments

London calling #1

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Ed Mostly

The first of three posts collecting sketches from a recent trip to London, all drawn with a Duke Confucius Fude pen, some onto pre-stained pages, with various washes/colours etc Fellow passengers waiting on the opposite station platform…Myself in the window … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, Duke Confucius, fude pen, London, people watching, trains, urban, urban sketching | Tagged cafe sketches, fude sketching, Iggy Pop, sketching in London, train sketches, urban sketching | 1 Comment

Waiting…

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Ed Mostly

iPad sketches from a visit to hospital for a check-up. (I use an Apple Pencil and Paper by 53 for the drawing app as it’s fairly simple, not too many options to distract!). Further below some previous sketches of people waiting…

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…and then to France

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Ed Mostly

A second batch of sketches from a recent trip South. First some gouache and pencil sketches on the road over the border, snow-capped Canigou dominating the landscape.Then a quiet weekday corner in Villelongue-dels-Monts, sketched in bamboo dip-pen as a gift for … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, clouds, France, people watching, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged bamboo dip-pen sketch, Bob and Marcia, Franglais, French village sketch, sketching in Collioure, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Life outdoors

Posted on April 23, 2019 by Ed Mostly

We had four days of unbroken sunshine for the Easter bank holiday weekend, so parks and public spaces were full of people enjoying themselves; here are some of them, drinking tea and smoking e-cigarettes, having an ice-cream, or just sitting and … Continue reading →

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Inky people

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Five recent sketches using a bamboo dip-pen for juicy inky lines (which go grey when you blot them). From the top there’s the Saturday market in Stroud (mmm, delicious Portuguese pastries), Seb Guettier busking by Bath Abbey (apologies for the … Continue reading →

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See-through city

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Three attempts to capture the animation of Bath city centre, drawing people as they pass by, near or far, focussing mainly on the faces and posture and not worrying about overlaps. I was sat down, so some of the closer … Continue reading →

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Homage to Catalonia #2

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Ed Mostly

After enjoying the coolth and peace of the hills it was down to the heat, busy-ness and concentrated loveliness of Girona. Here’s the view from our tiny apartment, looking down the shallow river that runs through town, occupied by noisy … Continue reading →