Category Archives: rural

Misterioso

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Ed Mostly

A couple of small watercolour sketches, done on recent misty morning dog walks. The first is looking across Bath city centre, with the Abbey and other church towers/spires in the middle distance. The second is looking from above Bath towards … Continue reading →

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Outskirts

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Sketchy distant views of the skies and countryside around Bath, seen from the city at various times of day. Gouache/watercolour

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More small sketches…

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Ed Mostly

More from the small pocket-sized notebook, tiny landscapes this time, with a fair few from early morning dog-walking, featuring clouds that caught my eye, occasional goats and passers by.

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A country walk…

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Some Springtime rural sketching, mostly colour, with an intense black and white interlude. I’d set off across the fields to sketch Shotwick graveyard with its toppling stones and collapsing tombs, but ended up getting distracted en route, drawing pylons and a … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, cemetery, church, farm, journeys, rural, urban sketching | Tagged Mahalia Jackson, Shotwick village, sketch of farmyard, sketches of graveyard, sketching pylons, urban sketching | 10 Comments

A rural interlude…

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Here is a Welsh valley sketched twice in different media (Sally says it looks like a Geography textbook…), four views from a train in four different media (felt-tip, pencil, ink-brush, watercolour), some sheep and lambs (topical!), and a different Welsh valley (out-take … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, bamboo dip pen, clouds, farm, opaque watercolour, rural, Wales | Tagged rural sketching, sketch of Welsh valley, sketches of sheep, sketching views from train, The Monkees | 2 Comments

Cloudy

Posted on November 19, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Six attempts at describing morning and evening clouds flowing over the Pyrenees, and one in the middle of just the mountains, trying different approaches (opaque white ink, reserved white paper, titanium white watercolour). I think the third and the last are starting … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, comparisons, France, rural, sky, white pen | Tagged Charles Wright, clouds over mountains, opaque white ink sketch, sketching clouds, sketching mountain cloud, sketching the Pyrenees | 2 Comments

Scrolling sketch

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Ed Mostly

My clever friend Jim (who has an excellent art blog) showed me how to display photos of a concertina sketchbook as a continuous image. I haven’t quite got the colour/lightness matching correct across the photos, but the overall effect is close to … Continue reading →

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Bosky

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Looking up a steep slope past an old yew tree, deep in the mossy/rocky woods below Bath University (Alex and Jim know the spot); followed by the boots that carried me there. The tree sketch line work was done on site, shade and colour … Continue reading →

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Mendip views

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Some rural sketching for a change… three views from an Autumnal walk along the Mendips. The first is from the top of Crook Peak, looking down onto the motorway (shining after a recent rain shower), and across the Bristol Channel to the … Continue reading →

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Outdoor museum

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The Weald and Downland Museum is a collection of old buildings that have been saved from dereliction and demolition and given a new home. It’s like a much smaller, rural English version of Skansen, the wonderful original ‘open air museum’ in … Continue reading →