Tag Archives: Lexington grey

Take off, in-flight, landing

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Scenes from a flight to Stockholm… A sketchy impression of the rolling patchwork landscape around Bristol airport as the plane took off, random images from a flight safety card (including a wildly optimistic ‘landing on water’), and planes waiting at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport under low … Continue reading →

Posted in airplane, airport, landscape, line drawing, monochrome, pencil, sketching, Stockholm | Tagged airport sketch, Arlanda airport, in-flight drawing, landing on water, Lexington grey, Major Lazer, monochrome sketch, patchwork fields, plane safety card, simple figures, sketching planes, take off view | Leave a comment

Bath streets

Posted on July 5, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, watercolour, white Gelly Roll pen, A7 – 10 minutes drawing and ink wash on site, 10 minutes at home for colour My recent sketching’s been more domestic than urban so here are a … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, Lexington grey, urban | Tagged architecture, Bath streets, cars, clouds, David Bowie, fountain pen, Georgian buildings, Lexington grey, terrace, urban, urban sketching, watercolour sketch | 2 Comments

Afternoon shade

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Another one from Portugal using gouache and inks on tinted paper. Sketched while sat in the shade of a spreading oak tree on one of the terraces in the fabulously strange and beautiful gardens of the Quinta Da Regaleira in Sintra. … Continue reading →

Posted in botany, from life, garden, gouache, Portugal, sketching, travel | Tagged Lexington grey, marker pen, monochrome, oak tree, Quinta Da Regaleira, shade, terrace | 1 Comment

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

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 →