Category Archives: waterbrush

The Shrubbery

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Looking down The Shrubbery, a steep path near our home in Bath. You have to squint a bit for it to work, and that’s a conservatory half-way up the house on the left, built on a balcony. (I blended dilute Winsor … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, inks, kit, monument, urban, waterbrush | Tagged city view, complementary colours, Primal Scream, roof tops, steep path, The Shrubbery, Winsor and Newton inks | 2 Comments

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

Black tea isn’t…

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Ed Mostly

…it’s golden brown. Breaking in a new sketch book with a familiar cuppa. Fountain pen and water-brushes with lexington grey ink, white Gelly Roll pen, watercolour, A5

Posted in from life, home, Lexington grey, objects, waterbrush | Tagged cuppa, gelly roll, golden brown, mug, tea, the stranglers | Leave a comment

Park life

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A warm and sunny Saturday in the park, people reading, chatting and sunbathing, covering the lawn in front of the Royal Crescent. A great chance to do lots of fast and simple figure studies of people at rest. Fountain pen and water-brushes with … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, body, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, people, sketching, urban, waterbrush | Tagged figure studies, leisure, park, royal crescent, saturday in the park, Small Faces, Summer | 4 Comments

Bog Island

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Bath Abbey appearing over the rooftops on a bright and breezy day, sketched while leaning on a lamp-post (sincere apologies). I was on Bog Island, named after the public toilets, or ‘bogs’, which used to be there and that were converted … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, grisaille, urban, waterbrush, watercolour sketch | Tagged architecture, Bath Abbey, Bog Island, city, George Formby, Google Streetview, under-painting, water brush | Leave a comment

Sintra National palace

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Up on the roof at 7am, sketching Sintra National Palace as the sun rose over the hills. I used a handy folding ruler to draw some pencil guidelines at the start to get the foreground rooflines right, and found that their vanishing … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, from life, journeys, kit, Lexington grey, monochrome, Portugal, sketching, waterbrush | Tagged architecture, chimneys, early morning, gouache, Palace, roofscape, satellite dishes, Sintra, tinted paper | 6 Comments

No knead

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A crusty loaf baked using the very tolerant and adaptable no knead bread recipe, developed by Jim Lahey. This became a lesson in landscape painting, with miniature valleys, hills and peaks, all looking slightly volcanic… I was interested to see how rich and … Continue reading →

Posted in food, from life, home, inks, sketching, waterbrush | Tagged bread, ink, Lexington grey, no-knead | Leave a comment

Crow’s feet

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Another late evening sketch, using a mirror to sketch my left eye. I held a gleeful grin for several minutes, strongly top-lit by a daylight bulb, to capture my periorbital lines, or ‘crows feet’ in full detail; it felt like contour mapping part … Continue reading →

Posted in eye, home, people, self-portrait, sketching, waterbrush | Tagged contours, crows feet, daylight bulb, eye, people, self-portrait | 2 Comments

Ink brushes

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Ed Mostly

I’ve been filling water-brushes with dilute inks, creating another portable limited palette of colours that I can blend on the page. I’m using Windsor and Newton inks which are transparent and quickly become waterproof, enabling me to layer colours, building up tints, tone, … Continue reading →