Tag Archives: pavement

Urban trees

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sketches of nature in the city, making a change from scurrying shoppers, buildings and resting tourists! Here’s looming birch on London’s Hampstead Heath, the shady base of five plane trees in the centre of the King’s Circus in Bath, and a neighbour’s conifer; … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, coloured ink, London, trees, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen sketches, De Atramentis inks, pavement, sketches of urban trees, sketching foliage, sketching in Bath, urban sketching | 2 Comments

Winter crowds

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Bath’s Christmas shoppers filling the wet streets (a festive carousel in the far distance), battling the wind and rain, pacing the pavements, queuing for the bus home, and generally milling around town. All sketched using my new best friend, the Kuretake #8 brush-pen, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, brush pen, dogs, figures, ink brush, Lexington grey, people, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged brush pen urban sketching, ink brush sketches, pavement, sketches of feet walking, sketches of people with umbrellas, sketches of shoppers, sketching in Bath, sketching street scenes, urban sketching | 4 Comments

Outdoor museum

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The Weald and Downland Museum is a collection of old buildings that have been saved from dereliction and demolition and given a new home. It’s like a much smaller, rural English version of Skansen, the wonderful original ‘open air museum’ in … Continue reading →

Posted in brush pen, buildings, drawing buildings, ink brush, monochrome, museum, rural, technique | Tagged drawing of anvils, pavement, rural sketching, sketch of hover-fly, sketch of poppy heads, sketch of shady interior, sketch of smithy, sketch of thatched cottage, Weald and Downland Museum | 4 Comments

‘Fail better’ #2

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Another repeated subject, with 4 versions of a familiar view where I regularly have to wait. The cars change, a notice is tied onto the lamp-post, a badly drawn traffic cone appears, and a bird flies over. But the basic … Continue reading →