Tag Archives: street scenes

Ubiquitous, invisible

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Ed Mostly

A while ago I became fascinated by the strings of cars I passed as I moved around the city; always there, curling round the city’s contours, but rarely noticed… The mania passed, but it was good practise! (All done when … Continue reading →

Posted in Bath, cars, collections, Lexington grey, street scene, urban, urban sketching, vehicles | Tagged Bert Kaempfert, sketches of cars, sketching in Bath, street scenes, urban sketching | 8 Comments

Busy busy

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Ed Mostly

Sitting on the lawn in front of the Royal Crescent trying to sketch everyone that passes by during a sunny 20 minutes, sometimes just catching their feet, sometimes seeing them in the distance. It’s a sort of survey/sampling exercise, a bit messy, … Continue reading →

Posted in bamboo dip pen, Bath, dip pen, figures, people watching, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged bamboo dip pen, dip-pen sketching, John Barry, royal crescent, sketch of street in rain, sketch sampling movement, sketching in Bath, street scenes, urban sketching | 5 Comments

An urban stroll

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Ed Mostly

I’ve been reading Freehand Drawing and Discovery by James Richards. Richards is an architect so his drawings look like planning proposals, but it’s got a lot of good tips on creating simple but effective urban landscapes. It also mentions ‘serial visions’, a … Continue reading →

Posted in buildings, from life, inks, journeys, line drawing, sequential, street scene, technique, travel, urban | Tagged city walls, Freehand Drawing and Discovery, Gordon Cullen, pedestrians, sequential sketches, serial vision, sketching an urban walk, street scenes, Tenby streets, Vision On gallery, walking through a town | 7 Comments

46 strangers

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Ed Mostly

Urban sketching turns the busy city centre into a giant, free (clothed) life-drawing class. It’s great practise for gesture drawing, and you’ve got to be fast to catch the pedestrians, but some are sitting ducks… Here are members of the public around Bath over … Continue reading →