Tag Archives: street scene

Camden Road

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Chimney pots and windows at the back of Camden Road in Bath, sketched from the road above, while leaning on a high wall (in the foreground bottom left). It’s another view of Bath where the chaotic backs of the buildings are more interesting than the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, cars, from life, grisaille, Lexington grey, line drawing, street scene, technique, urban | Tagged acetate grid, Bath, Camden Road, chimney pots, composition of sketch, Fatboy Slim, fountain pen sketch, grisaille, rear windows, rooftop sketch, street scene, urban sketching, using a grid when sketching | 10 Comments

Buskers, home and away

Posted on January 7, 2015 by Ed Mostly

The large numbers of tourists visiting Bath means that it is blessed with many good street entertainers, excellent models for a quick sketch, and mostly fine performers. So here’s another collection of buskers, this time including one I saw in Japan. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buskers, coloured ink, coloured paper, figures, Japan, line drawing, people, street scene, urban | Tagged Bath, bath buskers, Ben Powell, Benji Ross, drawing street performers, fountain pen sketching, Joel Grainger, Khoomiiman, Kwabana Lindsay, Maruyama Park Kyoto, playing violin, saxophone player, sketching buskers, Steely Dan, street scene, urban sketching | 3 Comments

Grey paper

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Ed Mostly

A quiet street near the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul on a hot summer Sunday morning, a pool of dappled shade slowly moving across the tarmac. I love the strong contrast produced by gouache on coloured paper, very useful for (relatively) … Continue reading →

Posted in Birds, buildings, coloured paper, from life, gouache, Istanbul, Lexington grey, monochrome, sketching, urban, waiting, white marker pen | Tagged eaves, Hagia Sophia, street scene, strong contrast, Sunday morning, swallows, tree shade, Uni Posca pen, Velvet Underground | Leave a comment

Walcot Street

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Night-time view up Walcot Street while waiting for a burger at Schwartz Bros, a Bath institution. It took about 3 minutes to draw the lines on location, and 5 more at home to add the ink wash and yellow highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, buildings, from life, Lexington grey, monochrome, night, urban, vehicles, waiting | Tagged night time, pedestrian, Schwartz burgers, street lamp, street scene, Walcot Street | Leave a comment

Steep street

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Ed Mostly

Looking up a street near the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, next to the entrance to the seventeenth century Valide Han or caravanserai on the right. It was a Sunday and most of the shops were closed, with shutters down. The Han … Continue reading →