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It’s been a while…

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Ed Mostly

Oh dear, nearly two years since my last post here, and it was getting fairly infrequent before then; apologies to anyone who is still there/here! I’ve kept up the daily drawing from life (thirteen years now!), and am still regularly … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, exhibitions, from life, pencil, self-portrait, Uncategorized, urban sketching | Tagged daily drawing from life, pencil selfies, Pharrell Williams, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 5 Comments

Dip pen hack movie!

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Zowee, New York Urban Sketcher Jeffrey Levine has made a short video showing how I modified my bamboo dip-pen. He’s improved my hack by using a Dremel to make the notches, and I think the picture wire he uses might … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, kit, Uncategorized | Tagged bamboo dip pen, dip-pen sketching, Jeffrey Levine, urban sketching, urban sketching kit | 1 Comment

Funchal museum

Posted on May 5, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Back to Madeira with some sketches from the Frederico de Freitas museum in Funchal. A small ivory carving (with a lamb on the shoulder and one on the knee, St Agnes?), figures on tiles, and a C19th engraving of Madeira printed in … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, collections, figures, Inktense, Madeira, museum, objects, Uncategorized, white pen | Tagged drawing of St Agnes, Fleetwood Mac, Frederico de Freitas museum, Funchal museum, sketches of Delft tiles, sketching in Madeira, sketching in museum | 2 Comments

Twilight

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Ed Mostly

It’s either late afternoon or early evening. Lights are coming on but the sky is still reflected in the car windows, colour’s fading from the cars, buildings and people. That’s the back of the Royal Crescent silhouetted in the background, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, drawing buildings, figures, ink brush, rooftops, street scene, twilight, Uncategorized, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath sketching, brush-pen sketching, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #8, Memory Tapes, sketch of street at twilight, street lamps, urban sketching | 8 Comments

Near the Easter processions…

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Back in Cordoba with people waiting for Easter processions to start, watching them from a balcony, and some band members recovering after hours of playing in the heat! I think drawing groups of figures is my default for ‘urban sketching’; I love picking out … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured ink, coloured paper, Cordoba, figures, from life, holiday, line drawing, monochrome, parades, people, street scene, travel, Uncategorized, urban, waiting | Tagged band members resting, Cordoba sketches, drawing a street scene, figures on a balcony, fountain pen sketching, Mike Nesmith, Semana Santa sketches, simple line drawings of figures, sketching groups of figures, urban sketching, waiting for Easter processions | 4 Comments

I, Robert

Posted on November 29, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Some robot/robert sketches from Japan, mostly at the Tokyo Museum of Emerging Science. First some animatronic manikin heads that nod and change expression empathetically when you speak into a microphone. They’re looking down on Asimo, the museum’s star attraction, named after Isaac Asimov, … Continue reading →

Posted in body, coloured paper, from life, hands, inks, Japan, Lexington grey, line drawing, pencil, people, robots, Uncategorized, urban | Tagged Asimo, Dr John, Isaac Asimov, large model Transformer, manikin heads, robot hand, robots, sketches from Japan, sketching robots, Tokyo Museum of Emerging Science, Transformer robot | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in animals, Birds, from life, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, museum, Stockholm, Uncategorized, watercolour sketch | Tagged Biologiska Museum, duck, goose, heron, Mercury Rev, Skansen, sketching birds, sketching from nature, sketching stuffed animals, Stockholm, swan family, swans, watercolour sketches, wolf | 2 Comments

Panoramic

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Ed Mostly

An oddly tidy living room with a detailed panoramic engraving of Bath by Trevor Haddrell (it’s hung straight in the real room. And the table top is level. And the chairs are the same height. Harrumph). I’m following Steven Reddy’s approach again (watch the linked … Continue reading →

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Beady

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Ed Mostly

“Necklace with beads of glass, rock crystal, silver and amber. Late Viking age. Woman’s costume from Gotland.” The beads came from many countries, evidence of the Vikings’ extensive trading network. Sketched at the very lovely Stockholm National Historical Museum (could … Continue reading →

Posted in exhibitions, jewellery, objects, Stockholm, Uncategorized, Vikings | Tagged exhibitions, jewellery, objects, Stockholm, Vikings | Leave a comment

iPad sketches

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Two sketches, two weeks apart, of Sherry on her iPad. My current sketchbook has coloured paper every few pages making a white marker pen very useful. I’ve tried to sketch on an iPad but the time delay in mark-making and … Continue reading →