Category Archives: watercolour sketch

3 Stockholm doorways

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Ostermalm in central Stockholm is full of late nineteenth century apartment blocks, some with lovely doorways. I planned to sketch lots of them when we were there this Summer but only managed three… All Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, watercolour, … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, collections, from life, holiday, line drawing, Stockholm, travel, urban, watercolour sketch | Tagged apartment blocks, doorways, fountain pen sketches, grand entrances, My Bloody Valentine, Ostermalm, Stockholm sketches, urban sketching | 3 Comments

One bad apple

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Another go at mostly painting, just using pencil lines for the overall shape and some pens for the lettering on the sticker. I usually add water-colour at the end of a sketch, after establishing line and shade with ink. Here it … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, food, from life, fruit, objects, pencil, sketching, technique, watercolour sketch, white pen | Tagged braeburn apple, Broken Bells, observational panting of apple, painting fruit, rotting apple, sketch of an apple, sketching fruit, watercolour sketch | Leave a comment

Mostly painting

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Ed Mostly

I’ve been reading ‘Urban Watercolor Sketching’ by Felix Scheinberger (here’s Tina’s review). It’s not very ‘urban’, but I recommend it as an enthusiastic, conversational and practical guide to water-colour sketching, with a strong focus on the power of colour. So I’m trying to be a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in colour, from life, fruit, kit, line drawing, technique, watercolour sketch | Tagged 'Urban Watercolor Sketching', apples, bananas, Billie Holiday, cake stand, Felix Scheinberger, fruit sketches, line drawing, oranges, watercolor sketching | 2 Comments

Swedish birds

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Ed Mostly

A collection of birds seen in Stockholm. First there are two sketches from the Biologiska Museet, a beautiful wooden Victorian museum full of dioramas populated by stuffed animals who’ll hold a pose for as long as you need (the first picture looks like a scene from … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, Birds, from life, Lexington grey, line drawing, monochrome, museum, Stockholm, Uncategorized, watercolour sketch | Tagged Biologiska Museum, duck, goose, heron, Mercury Rev, Skansen, sketching birds, sketching from nature, sketching stuffed animals, Stockholm, swan family, swans, watercolour sketches, wolf | 2 Comments

Honeysuckles

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Several attempts to sketch highly fragrant Honeysuckle from the last two years. I enjoyed working out the refractive effects of water and glass as much as drawing the very fiddly flowers… Brown/blue/green Pigma pens, fountain pens with Carbon and Lexington grey ink, water brush … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, flowers, from life, line drawing, sketching, watercolour sketch | Tagged fountain pen sketching, glass of water, Honeysuckle, Lexington grey waterbrush, refractive effects, sketching flowers, sketching water refraction, Stephane Grappelli, Yehudi Menuhin | Leave a comment

Stantonbury

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lexington grey broad fountain pen and water-brush, water-colour, A6 – 20 minutes A quick sketch of a familiar view, looking South West towards Stantonbury Hill about 4 miles away. It was a balmy early summer evening, the trees all in leaf, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, from life, home, landscape, seasonal, sketching, sky, trees, watercolour sketch, weather | Tagged early summer, fountain pen, horizon, Stantonbury Hill, sunset, The Seekers | Leave a comment

Beside the seaside

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Some sketches from a week by the sea in Wales, with more painting than drawing in an attempt to catch the soft natural forms. First some wave-watching, a tiny fish washed up on the beach, and a solitary morning beach walker… …the … Continue reading →

Posted in beach, clouds, from life, gouache, holiday, sea, Wales, watching, watercolour sketch, waves | Tagged Aberporth, beach, headland, scallop shell, seaside rocks, small fish, The Waterboys, tide | Leave a comment

Rear windows

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Ed Mostly

1mm Pigma pen reloaded with Lexington grey, Lexington grey water-brush, white Gelly Roll pen, watercolour, A6 – 50 minutes Revisiting Marlborough buildings, this time the higgledy-piggledy back, on an overcast afternoon. You can pick out some of the symmetry and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, kit, Lexington grey, line drawing, sketching, urban, watercolour sketch | Tagged chaotic building, Georgian facade, Lexington, line and form, Marlborough Buildings, Moody Blues, refilled Pigma pen, white gelly roll pen, windows | 2 Comments

Tomb, hydrant, B+B

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A final group of sketches from Portugal before I get to grips with scanning all the Istanbul pictures… The tomb of Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal’s greatest poet, in Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon. Fountain pen with Carbon ink, water-brush with Lexington … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, from life, Lisbon, Portugal, sketching, travel, urban, watercolour sketch | Tagged hydrant, Jean-Christophe Defline, Jeronimos, Luis Vaz de Camoes, Palace, Sintra, Spiritualized, tomb | Leave a comment

Lisbon views

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Fountain pen with Carbon ink, water-colour, A5 Marker pen with Carbon ink, watercolour, A5 Two views of Lisbon from the apartment we stayed in, with two different approaches to line. I loved looking across at a neighbouring roof-top and its eclectic collection … Continue reading →