Category Archives: travel

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

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

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 →