Category Archives: urban sketching

See-through city

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Three attempts to capture the animation of Bath city centre, drawing people as they pass by, near or far, focussing mainly on the faces and posture and not worrying about overlaps. I was sat down, so some of the closer … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buildings, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, Bath sketching, Pulp, sketching people, street scene sketch, urban sketching | 3 Comments

City evenings

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Ed Mostly

Sorry for the lack of recent posts; there’s no particular excuse, just the usual Christmas busy-ness and all the rest. I was still out sketching though, so here are four evening scenes in central Bath. Winter’s a busy time for … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buskers, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged city evening sketches, Dinosaur Jr, fude pen sketches, sketches of busy streets, sketches of street scenes, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Analogue and digital in London

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Sketches from a trip to London, including trying out a new entry level iPad with Apple Pencil for drawing (I’m using Paper by 53 as the sketching app; it’s very basic in options so not too distracting with choices, but … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, iPad sketches, London, museum, trains, urban, urban sketching | Tagged British Museum sketch, iPad urban sketching, Parliament Hill sketch, sketch of totem poles, sketch on London view, The Jam, urban sketching | 7 Comments

Ubiquitous, invisible

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Ed Mostly

A while ago I became fascinated by the strings of cars I passed as I moved around the city; always there, curling round the city’s contours, but rarely noticed… The mania passed, but it was good practise! (All done when … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, cars, collections, Lexington grey, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Bert Kaempfert, sketches of cars, sketching in Bath, street scenes, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Sequentialistical (Sequentialicious?)

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Various attempts to sketch sequences of time passing, in most of my favourite media… Preparing a hot-air balloon for launch in Bath’s Victoria Park. The passengers help with the spreading out of the balloon, and help to hold it open … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, cars, clouds, fude pen, gouache, journeys, landscape, sequential, urban, urban sketching | Tagged fude pen sketches, hot air balloon launch sketch, motorway sketches, sketch of hot air balloon, sketches from moving car, sketches of clouds, sketching in Bath, The Kinks, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Twenty seven mile view

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Looking many many miles West from the top of Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral; across the city centre and docks, across the Mersey to Birkenhead, right across the top of the Wirral peninsula, then across the Dee estuary, past an offshore wind … Continue reading →

Posted in fude pen, panorama, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Liverpool Anglican cathedral, Liverpool rooftops, sketch of horizon, sketch of Liverpool, sketch panorama, The Who, urban sketching | 10 Comments

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 →