Category Archives: sketching

Urban sheep

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A flock of sheep on the steep field in front of Lansdown Crescent on the Northern slopes of Bath. An odd but lovely urban sight, a very faint echo of the times when drover’s roads criss-crossed the UK, bringing flocks of sheep into many city-centre markets. … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, Bath, buildings, coloured paper, from life, Lexington grey, sketching, urban, white pen | Tagged Bath, coloured paper, Curved Air, drover's roads, flock of sheep, fountain pen sketching, Lansdown Crescent, Lexington grey ink, medieval Bath, Noodlers brown ink, sheep in city, sketching sheep, urban sheep, White Rotring pen | 2 Comments

Glasses and bottles

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Six attempts to sketch translucency using a range of line thicknesses; from ‘barely there’ (the pencil on the green San Pelegrino), to ‘bold’ (1mm Pigma pen on the chair with pint glass). They’re all late evening sketches of whatever’s in front of me, to keep up … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, coloured paper, from life, glass, inks, Lexington grey, monochrome, objects, sketching, waterbrush | Tagged Bobby McFerrin, closure in sketching, drawing water, glass of water, line drawings, pint glass, sketch of wine bottle, sketching a glass, sketching bottles, Spencer Davis Group, translucent | 3 Comments

Seated

Posted on September 27, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A seated figure sketched while waiting for a couple of minutes at the Sports Village at Bath University; I used the rest of the page to test inks on top of paint. One corner of the testing was oddly beautiful, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, inks, Lexington grey, line drawing, people, sketching | Tagged Cornershop, fountain pen sketching, ink testing, quick figure sketch, serendipity, sketch of seated figure, sketching people | Leave a comment

One bad apple

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Another go at mostly painting, just using pencil lines for the overall shape and some pens for the lettering on the sticker. I usually add water-colour at the end of a sketch, after establishing line and shade with ink. Here it … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, food, from life, fruit, objects, pencil, sketching, technique, watercolour sketch, white pen | Tagged braeburn apple, Broken Bells, observational panting of apple, painting fruit, rotting apple, sketch of an apple, sketching fruit, watercolour sketch | Leave a comment

From a moving vehicle

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A collection of fast drive-by sketches; trees seen from a train, and vehicles from a car. The trees were glimpsed for a few seconds as we shot past, so a brush-pen was ideal for quickly capturing their individual shapes and key lines, with … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, coloured paper, from life, inks, journeys, monochrome, sketching, technique, trains, travel, urban, vehicles | Tagged drive-by sketches, individual trees, Lexington grey ink, sketching from a vehicle, sketching on coloured paper, sketching on the move, sketching trees, sketching vehicles, The Temptations, tree shapes | 2 Comments

Steam Fair

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Ed Mostly

The wonderful Carters Steam Fair was in Bath over the summer, with steam-powered bumper cars, dodgems, dive bombers, chair-o-planes, giant octopus and much more. I sketched some of the logos on the vintage slot machines in the penny arcade (just doing the lines on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, collections, from life, gouache, nostalgia, park, sketching, urban, vehicles, white pen | Tagged Arcade Fire, Bath, Carter's Steam Fair, fairground sketching, penny arcade, Scammel lorry, slot machine logos, steam fair, urban sketching, vintage truck | 1 Comment

Take off, in-flight, landing

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Scenes from a flight to Stockholm… A sketchy impression of the rolling patchwork landscape around Bristol airport as the plane took off, random images from a flight safety card (including a wildly optimistic ‘landing on water’), and planes waiting at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport under low … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, landscape, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, sketching, Stockholm | Tagged airport sketch, Arlanda airport, in-flight drawing, landing on water, Lexington grey, Major Lazer, monochrome sketch, patchwork fields, plane safety card, simple figures, sketching planes, take off view | Leave a comment

Stockholm sketching

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, watercolour, A5 – one hour We spent last week in Stockholm, and I was delighted to have the chance to go on a sketchcrawl, kindly arranged by Nina Johansson. Here are Tina (on the fence) and Nina … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, from life, holiday, journeys, people, sketching, Stockholm, urban, waves | Tagged docks, fountain pen, kayak, Nina Johansson, ship, sketchcrawl, sketchers, Stockholm sketching, The Doors, urban sketching, water | 2 Comments

Honeysuckles

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Several attempts to sketch highly fragrant Honeysuckle from the last two years. I enjoyed working out the refractive effects of water and glass as much as drawing the very fiddly flowers… Brown/blue/green Pigma pens, fountain pens with Carbon and Lexington grey ink, water brush … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, flowers, from life, line drawing, sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged fountain pen sketching, glass of water, Honeysuckle, Lexington grey waterbrush, refractive effects, sketching flowers, sketching water refraction, Stephane Grappelli, Yehudi Menuhin | Leave a comment

Birds flying, pigs not

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Swifts and seagulls flying over our house at dusk. I wanted to work out the seagulls’ odd wing angles (forward and up, and back and down?) as they’re ubiquitous in Bath at the moment, and very hard to get right; so I did … Continue reading →