Category Archives: sketching

Car window thumb-nails

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Quick thumb-nails sketched last weekend on the road back from North Devon. Spot the trailer-load of toilets being delivered to the Glastonbury Festival site, which is about 25 miles from Bath. All that wonderful music, just down the road from here. … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, from life, journeys, Lexington grey, sketching, travel, waterbrush | Tagged Canned Heat, cars, coloured paper, Glastonbury, road, thumb nails, traffic | 1 Comment

TV thumbnails

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Using the pause button to do lots of quick thumbnail sketches while watching late night television. Good for trying to catch the key lines and shapes. Not happy with the sketch? Do another one. Still not entirely happy? Do another. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lexington grey, monochrome, people, sketching, thumbnails | Tagged In the morning, television, The Coral | 1 Comment

Father’s Day

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Ed Mostly

My father painted last year by me. I went straight in with water-colour for a change, and the facial features are pleasingly soft/blurred as they were done ‘wet on wet’. Watercolour, A4 Below is a drawing of me by my daughter. … Continue reading →

Posted in family, from life, parents, people, sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged bald, Chicory Tip, father, father's day, Hester, mortal engines, Orbix Xaxis, parenthood | 4 Comments

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

Afternoon shade

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Another one from Portugal using gouache and inks on tinted paper. Sketched while sat in the shade of a spreading oak tree on one of the terraces in the fabulously strange and beautiful gardens of the Quinta Da Regaleira in Sintra. … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, from life, garden, gouache, Portugal, sketching, travel | Tagged Lexington grey, marker pen, monochrome, oak tree, Quinta Da Regaleira, shade, terrace | 1 Comment

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

Travel kit

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Flying off to Lisbon and nearby Sintra for a week, expecting many sketching opportunities, and hoping that my family patiently indulge my addiction hobby. I’m trying to keep my kit relatively simple… I’ve packed small and medium sized gouache and … Continue reading →

Posted in gouache, journeys, kit, sketching, travel | Tagged Jean-Christophe Defline, packing, pens, sketchbook, travel sketching kit | 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

‘Fail better’

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Ed Mostly

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett A good description of learning to sketch, amongst other things, and my frequent attempts at drawing my left hand are an excellent example! So here’s the latest batch … Continue reading →