Category Archives: watercolour sketch

Lockdown sketches #3: botanical

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Ed Mostly

Having more time to watch the loveliest Spring I can remember means I’ve been drawing more plant life. Weeds like ivy and bindweed and sticky weed caught my eye at first; I love the way they’re creeping and covering. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, botany, ink brush, inks, park, seasonal, Spring, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged botanical sketches, lockdown sketches, park sketching, sketching in Bath, sketching plants, sketching weeds, The Stairs | 4 Comments

Outskirts

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Ed Mostly

Sketchy distant views of the skies and countryside around Bath, seen from the city at various times of day. Gouache/watercolour

Posted in Bath, gouache, rural, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged gouache sketches, Loving' Spoonful, rural sketching, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | Leave a comment

More small sketches…

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Ed Mostly

More from the small pocket-sized notebook, tiny landscapes this time, with a fair few from early morning dog-walking, featuring clouds that caught my eye, occasional goats and passers by.

Posted in clouds, landscape, rural, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged cloud sketches, sketches of goats, small landscape sketches, Supergrass, urban sketching | Leave a comment

My eyes! My eyes!

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Ed Mostly

A GIF-tastic round-up of some recent sketches, mostly of Bath, showing how water-colour works with drawings done in bamboo dip-pen and coloured ink. I love the way that the coloured ink lines can fade back into the sketch or be brought forward, … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, boats, coloured ink, figures, GIF, inks, kit, technique, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged bamboo dip pen, bamboo dip pen sketches, coloured ink sketches, De Atramentis inks, Frank Black, urban sketching | 8 Comments

Six distant hills

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Ed Mostly

They’re all Stantonbury Hill, which I’ve sketched many times before, seen from North Bath. The first three were painted in quick succession in opaque watercolour on a rainy afternoon, then one in bamboo dip pen, and then a couple of quick translucent watercolours. After … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, comparisons, landscape, opaque watercolour, rooftops, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged alternatives to gouache, landscape sketches, opaque water-colour, Prince Buster, sketching in Bath, Stantonbury Hill, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Hospital visit

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Apologies for the lack of recent posts, all was put on hold due to an unplanned trip to hospital. I’m out now, thoroughly resting and with enough time and energy to post the sketches I made during all the empty hours in hospital… … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, body, hospital, Manchester Symposium, pencil, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged hospital sketches, Paul Heaston, pencil and watercolour sketching, self-portrait in hospital, sketch of IV drip, sketching in hospital, Spiritualized, urban sketching, wide-angle sketching | 9 Comments

Apples and beets

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Ed Mostly

More domestic than urban, some quick pencil and watercolour sketches from the late night kitchen, trying to break my over-reliance on dilute Lexington grey for tone/shadow! Although the grey ink wash is very fast and effective for quick shadows, it can make … Continue reading →

Posted in coloured paper, domestic, food, fruit, kit, kitchen, Lexington grey, pencil, technique, watercolour sketch | Tagged 5B Grafwood pencil, observational drawing, pencil sketches of fruit, sketches of apples, sketching fruit, The Shadows, watercolour sketches of fruit | Leave a comment

Cloudy

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Ed Mostly

The same cloud sketched four times, continually changing as sunset approached (‘cloud’ is sometimes more verb than noun). The light pencil lines were mostly drawn blind, with watercolour wash added straight after the final drawing, the colours still fading from the sky. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, blind drawing, clouds, collections, line drawing, sky, sunset, twilight, watercolour sketch | Tagged blind contour, blind drawing, is this an urban sketch?, Kate Bush, pencil sketches of sky, sketches of clouds, sketching at sunset, sketching the sky | 2 Comments

Mendip views

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Some rural sketching for a change… three views from an Autumnal walk along the Mendips. The first is from the top of Crook Peak, looking down onto the motorway (shining after a recent rain shower), and across the Bristol Channel to the … Continue reading →

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Apples and shelves

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The evenings are drawing in, so there’ll be more interior sketches for a few months… Here are recently harvested apples and kitchen shelves, all done with my new preferred kit (Kuretake #40 brush-pen with Lexington grey for line, dilute LG ink in fine … Continue reading →