Category Archives: urban

Back to front with gouache

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Maru Godas’ work and the arrival of sunshine have inspired me to give gouache another chance. I’m enjoying exploring its flexible sketchy possibilities, love the physical presence that opaque colour has on the paper, and it’s speeded up some aspects of … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, drawing buildings, gouache, palettes, pencil, sketching, technique, urban, urban sketching, white marker pen | Tagged Amerigo Gazaway, gouache and ink drawing, gouache sketches, Maru Godas, Schmincke gouache, sketching palette, urban sketching, white sketching pens | 10 Comments

French Collection 2

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Various sketches from a trip to Southern France at Easter, mostly bamboo dip-pen and watercolour, with some correction pen and ink-brush for variety. I was busy posting these on Facebook at the time, but forgot to put them here… (And … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, brush pen, buildings, France, holiday, landscape, panorama, travel, urban, urban sketching, white pen | Tagged airport sketches, panoramic sketch, sketching in France, sketching on a plane, The Chambers Brothers, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Sharing

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Ed Mostly

A lovely aspect of the Urban Sketchers community is members’ enthusiasm for freely sharing top-tips and information; about kit, techniques, locations, approaches etc. This spirit of generosity was particularly evident at the symposium I attended, and continued after it ended … Continue reading →

Posted in International Symposium, Manchester Symposium, technique, urban, urban sketching | Tagged The Exciters, urban sketching approaches, urban sketching symposium workshops, urban sketching techniques | 6 Comments

Seven year sketch

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Ed Mostly

In March 2011 I read my wife’s copy of Danny Gregory’s ‘Creative License’ and started doing a drawing from life every day; this was one of my better decisions… Some days the drawings are tiny brief scraps, my hand on … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, daily drawing, every day matters, sketchbooks, sketching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged daily drawing, Danny Gregory, every day matters, LCD Soundsystem, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 12 Comments

Snow days

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Sketches from the last couple of days when the snow was fresh and powdery, perfect for sledging on the nearby golf course. The roads and schools and shops were shut and an unofficial hillside frost-fair appeared! I did these in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, people watching, seasonal, snow, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bath sketches, ink brush sketching, Red Hot Chili Peppers, simple figure drawing, sketches of sledgers, sketching in the snow, snow sketches, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Room with a view, and coffee

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Sketches over time (three years?) of the same pedestrianised street seen from above. All were sketched from the same cafe, which has changed hands during this period, but still offers the clearest view of a long busy street in Bath. … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, cafe, fude pen, ink brush, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bing Crosby, cafe sketching, sketching busy streets, sketching crowds, sketching in Bath, street scene from above, urban sketching | 5 Comments

The great indoors

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Ed Mostly

A current theme, mostly driven by the weather, is cafe sketching. The busier the cafe the better, partly to give me more subjects to draw, but also to make my large sketchbook/bamboo dip-pen set-up slightly less conspicuous… All are in … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, cafe, natural perspective, people watching, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, cafe sketching, Monty Python, natural perspective, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 6 Comments

Tate Modern

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sketches from a recent visit to Tate Modern; visitors encountering ‘Babel 2001’, taking a break in the cafe, viewing Karl Blossfeldt photos, and waiting at Paddington for the train home.

Posted in bamboo dip pen, cafe, exhibitions, London, urban, urban sketching | Tagged art gallery sketches, cafe sketch, Paddington, Tate Modern, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Brief catch up…

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Four recent urban sketches, all in Bath, all in bamboo dip-pen, and all from the big square sketchbook; George Street in the rain, double-page spread in the Forum cafe, Remembrance day in Victoria Park, and Christmas shoppers in Milsom Street. … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, buildings, cafe, figures, parades, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, Bath street sketch, cafe sketching, portrait sketch, Remembrance Sunday, sketch of Christmas shoppers, Supergrass, urban sketching | 5 Comments

Vacance

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sorry for the absence… Here are some sketches from a trip to Southern France in various media with watercolour washes. A sunny morning at Girona airport (drawn in brush-pen), pure watercolour studies of a mountain in the Eastern Pyrenees, looking … Continue reading →