Category Archives: urban

Edding 30 marker pen

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Ed Mostly

I’ve used marker pens before, reloaded with different inks, with some mixed results. I tried a new one when I went to London last week. The bold lines were great for very fast sketches, and the ink is water-based (so doesn’t ‘bleed through’ the page), fast drying and … Continue reading →

Posted in figures, from life, inks, kit, line drawing, London, marker pen, musicians, people, sketching, technique, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Edding 30, Great Western Railway Paddington Band, James Hobbs, London sketches, marker pen sketches, sketch of crows, sketch of police, sketch of sketcher, sketch of tube travellers, The Clash, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Urban jungle

Posted on May 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Following the weeds, here are some more urban plants around Bath… Monochrome foliage on a Japanese Maple, ‘sticky weed’ amongst nettles (including initial line drawing), and a couple of attempts at ivy (the last one using a dried up marker pen and tea). … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, from life, garden, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, urban, urban sketching | Tagged drawing plants, monochrome plant sketches, sketch of nettles, sketches of ivy, sketching urban foliage, sketching weeds, The Kinks, urban jungle, urban plants, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Inside the Mezquita

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Back in Cordoba, this time inside the Mezquita. The first sketch is an attempt to describe the famous forest of columns, mostly inhabited by tourists; as the columns recede in all directions it feels slightly like being in an Escher … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, collections, coloured ink, Cordoba, faces, monochrome, monument, people, travel, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Cordoba sketches, Escher, faces on tomb, inside the Mezquita, Kasabian, sketches of people taking photos, stone faces, tourists taking photos, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Two wheelers

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Enough of cars, here are some scooters, motorbikes and bikes seen around Bath. The curvy scooters are a real joy to sketch, toy-like with tiny tyres and complicated engine parts discretely covered (but the tilted oblique wheels are tricky…). The floating blue bike on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, bikes, coloured ink, from life, sketching, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Bath sketches, drawing bikes, Hannah Peel, parked bikes, scooters, sketch of motor-bike, sketching scooters, street scene sketch, urban sketching | 5 Comments

More cars

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

More sketches of street-parking in Bath, ignoring the buildings, just strings of cars snaking up, down and around the contours (previously). Cars are ubiquitous, a familiar part of urban scenes, so I’ve been trying to get them right; the angle of the wheel arches seems … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, cars, street scene, technique, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged drawing cars, fountain pen sketches, lines of cars, Red Hot Chili Peppers, sketching Bath streets, sketching cars, street parking, urban sketching, urban sketching techniques | 5 Comments

Pulteney Bridge

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Sketches of Pulteney Bridge and weir in the centre of Bath. In the first one a river trip’s about to set off, and a red sight-seeing bus has just crossed the bridge; the tourist season is waking up. The close-up of the weir is from 2013 when I … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, Lexington grey, river, River Avon, sketching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath sketching, city bridge sketch, fountain pen sketches, Pulteney Bridge, sketches of a weir, The Foundations, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Bristol docks, horizontal and vertical

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Two sketches from Sunday’s inaugural sketchcrawl for the new ‘Urban Sketchers Bristol/South West’ group. It was chilly down by the water’s edge, but good company and absorption in sketching kept the cold at bay. Thanks to Jules and Charlotte for setting it all … Continue reading →

Posted in boats, Bristol, buildings, Lexington grey, monochrome, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bristol docks, fountain pen sketches, Otis Redding, sketch of seagull and boat, sketchcrawl, sketches of boats, sketches of dockside cranes, Urban Sketchers Bristol South West, urban sketching | 2 Comments

A room with a view

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A rooftop view of Cordoba’s Mezquita from our room, and a Moorish gateway in the street outside. The old town streets are narrow, with lovely strong shadows on the white walls and angled patches of sky above. These sketches are mostly grey/grisaille, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, Cordoba, grisaille, holiday, Lexington grey, street scene, technique, travel, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Cordoba street sketches, CSS, fountain pen sketches, grisaille sketching, Instant Streetview, Mezquita roof sketch, Moorish archway, rooftop view, rooftops view sketch, Steven Reddy, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Roman bridge

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Looking across Cordoba’s Roman bridge to the old town from the top of the Calahorra Tower, a paraglider buzzing overhead, and the river running low. I drew one side of the bridge before the other and failed to notice that the projecting stone … Continue reading →

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Can’t see the wood

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A break from Cordoba with some recent tree sketches, rural and urban. The first two are of an old mossy oak in a wood of mostly Scots Pine, done a couple of months apart. Then a tree in Queen’s Square in … Continue reading →