Category Archives: sky

Landscapes at 80mph

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Six small gouache/opaque-watercolour sketches from a train heading South along the England/Wales border; each about the size of a credit card. The view was changing all the time but the sky was (relatively) consistent minute by minute, so this was … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, gouache, landscape, sky, trains, urban sketching | Tagged Chaka Khan, cloud sketches, Fatback band, gouache sketches, sketches of sky, Sketching on a train, urban sketching | 3 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

Cloudy, with a chance of sketching

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Ed Mostly

A collection of cloud studies (more here). The third one is the same cloud drawn three times as sunset arrived (I ‘overcooked’ this sketch and should have stopped much sooner. They’ve ended up looking like Aegean islands…). And the last two are … Continue reading →

Posted in blind drawing, colour, sky | Tagged blind drawing, contour drawing, Inktense pencils, Midlake, sketches of clouds | 7 Comments

Cloudy

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The same cloud sketched four times, continually changing as sunset approached (‘cloud’ is sometimes more verb than noun). The light pencil lines were mostly drawn blind, with watercolour wash added straight after the final drawing, the colours still fading from the sky. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, blind drawing, clouds, collections, line drawing, sky, sunset, twilight, watercolour sketch | Tagged blind contour, blind drawing, is this an urban sketch?, Kate Bush, pencil sketches of sky, sketches of clouds, sketching at sunset, sketching the sky | 2 Comments

Hedgy

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Three stages of a monochrome hedge sketch (sounds stunningly dull, but bear with me…). First the initial pencil line drawing; then adding grey ink (which blends really well with soft pencil) for the leaf shadows, and white gel-pen for the foliage outline; and … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, comparisons, garden, kit, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, sky, technique, white pen | Tagged Explosions in the Sky, foliage outline, high contrast sketch, pencil line drawing, pencil sketch of hedge, sketch of hedge, sketching technique, white gel pen sketch | 6 Comments

Chim chim cher-ee

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More soft pencil sketches; Summer evening views over Bath chimneys and roof-tops to the trees beyond. There’s a couple of seagulls flying home to roost (?) in the first one, and more of the telephone wires I love in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, landscape, pencil, rooftops, seasonal, sky, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged Bath sketches, distant trees, early Summer evening views, pencil sketching, rooftop sketches, rooftop views, seagulls flying, sketches of chimneys, Smokey Robinson, telephone wires, urban sketching | 1 Comment

Wiry views

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Drawn at dusk, sat on the bottom steps of The Shrubbery (previously), looking down Harley Street in Bath. My eye was caught by the telephone wires and chimneys silhouetted against the winter sky. I was sorry that I didn’t get … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, cars, coloured ink, from life, grisaille, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, sky, street scene, urban, vehicles, waterbrush | Tagged Bath sketch, Bath street, chimney silhouettes, drawing cars, fountain pen sketch, Japanese cabling, overhead wires, rooftops sketch, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, sketching in ink, street scene sketch, telephone cables overhead, telephone wires, urban sketching, winter sky | 3 Comments

Stantonbury

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lexington grey broad fountain pen and water-brush, water-colour, A6 – 20 minutes A quick sketch of a familiar view, looking South West towards Stantonbury Hill about 4 miles away. It was a balmy early summer evening, the trees all in leaf, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, home, landscape, seasonal, sketching, sky, trees, watercolour sketch, weather | Tagged early summer, fountain pen, horizon, Stantonbury Hill, sunset, The Seekers | Leave a comment

Stormy weather

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Storms are battering the coast and flood warnings are in place across the UK after a very wet and windy Christmas. This was the sky above Bath at dusk yesterday, some of the clouds shedding rain as they pass. Lexington … Continue reading →

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Travel thumbnails #3, planes

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Ed Mostly

More travel thumbnails in gouache, this time the view from an airplane flying Istanbul to London. The window shapes and wing-tips are a bit wonky… All in Black Pigma 1mm pen, water-brush with Lexington grey ink, gouache, A5 Taxiing down the … Continue reading →