Category Archives: Stockholm

Skylines

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sorry for the lack of posts here recently (and thanks to Chris for the reminder!). I’ve got into a habit of posting my urban sketches to the USk Facebook page, leaving just the more domestic ones for the blog. So … Continue reading →

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Stockholm museums

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Ed Mostly

More sketches from Stockholm’s wonderfully rich collection of museums, this time the Museum of Ethnography, the Mediterranean Museum, and the Nordic Museum. From the top… a cabinet of small statues, a pair of Roman busts, a Saami knife handle (and portrait … Continue reading →

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Ship ahoy!

Posted on September 10, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Museum sketches from Stockholm. First some of the haunting facial reconstructions of bodies found in the C17th Vasa shipwreck (and the skulls they worked off) at the wonderful Vasa Museum. Then looking down from an upper viewing platform on galleries of visitors looking at the ship … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, boats, faces, figures, museum, nautical, Naval museum, people watching, skulls, Stockholm, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Maritime Museum, museum sketching, sketches of model ships, sketching faces, skull sketches, Stockholm museums, The Upsetters, urban sketching, Vasa Museum | Leave a comment

Gothic horror

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Here’s the amazing C15th statue of George and the Dragon in Stockholm’s Storkyrkan. It’s huge, gruesome (body parts are scattered on the ground beneath the dragon) and made of wood and deer antlers (the spiky bits on the dragon). That’s the … Continue reading →

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Stockholm hot rods

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Ed Mostly

We were surprised and delighted to find a massive unofficial hot-rod rally taking place on Sveavägen, the main drag where we were staying in Stockholm. It was the annual city gathering of ‘raggare’, fans of old American cars and 50’s ‘greaser’ … Continue reading →

Posted in cars, marker pen, night, parades, Stockholm, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged sketch of vintage cadillac, sketching in Stockholm, sketching raggere, sketching vintage cars, Sveavägen car rally, The Suzan, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Island life

Posted on August 9, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sketches from a recent trip to Grinda Island in the Stockholm archipelago; a couple of attempts to describe the ferry’s energetic wake; the view of nearby islands from our rocky peninsula with my daughter reading on a sunny ledge, drawn in bamboo … Continue reading →

Posted in art abandonment, bamboo dip pen, brush pen, clouds, dip pen, sea, Stockholm, waves | Tagged art abandonment, bamboo dip pen, Grinda Island, Marc Bolan, sketch of clouds, sketches of Stockholm archipelago, sketching waves | 7 Comments

3 Stockholm doorways

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Ostermalm in central Stockholm is full of late nineteenth century apartment blocks, some with lovely doorways. I planned to sketch lots of them when we were there this Summer but only managed three… All Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, watercolour, … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, collections, from life, holiday, line drawing, Stockholm, travel, urban, watercolour sketch | Tagged apartment blocks, doorways, fountain pen sketches, grand entrances, My Bloody Valentine, Ostermalm, Stockholm sketches, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Swedish birds

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A collection of birds seen in Stockholm. First there are two sketches from the Biologiska Museet, a beautiful wooden Victorian museum full of dioramas populated by stuffed animals who’ll hold a pose for as long as you need (the first picture looks like a scene from … Continue reading →

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38 boats

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Ed Mostly

While in Stockholm we caught a ferry to Grinda, one of 30,000 (!) islands in the surrounding archipelago. We swam in the warm Baltic and I tried to sketch the many pleasure craft that passed. As most were going fairly fast I ended up with a collection … Continue reading →

Posted in boats, coloured paper, holiday, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, Stockholm | Tagged Grinda, kayakers, Modest Mouse, monochrome, one minute drawings, sailing boats, sketching boats, speed boats, Stockholm archipelago, white pen sketches | 5 Comments

Worshippers, ancient and modern

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lexington grey fountain pen and water-brush, white Gelly Roll pen, white gouache, on coloured paper, A5 – 10 minutes line drawing at the museum, and 30 minutes adding the light and shade at home A small fraction of the 2,000 votive figures … Continue reading →