Tag Archives: The Byrds

You be illin’

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Ed Mostly

Sketching daily selfies can capture all sorts of things… Here’s six days when I went from the depths of a cough/cold to relative wellness, moving from grey fountain-pen to black/brown marker-pen, gaining colour while apparently shedding a few years in the … Continue reading →

Posted in collections, daily drawing, faces, marker pen, self-portrait | Tagged daily sketching, Gram Parsons, marker pen portraits, sketches of illness, sketching selfies, The Byrds | 1 Comment

Walking zoom

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Ed Mostly

A sequence of tiny sketches, starting half-a-mile away from Bristol’s St Mary’s Redcliffe church (which Queen Elizabeth I called “the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in England”), passing the Thekla boat, and gradually zooming in on the beautiful and unusual moorish doorway and … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, brush pen, buildings, church, ink brush, sequential, street scene, urban, urban sketching | Tagged Bristol sketching, brush-pen sketching, ink brush sketching, Kuretake #8, sequential sketches, sketch of church, St Mary's Redcliffe, The Byrds, Urban Sketchers Bristol/South West, urban sketching | Leave a comment

Mothly drawing

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A quick sketch of a dead moth for my three-hundredth post. Followed by some older sketches of other insects found in our garden for your further enjoyment… Lexington grey in fountain pen and water-brush, water-colour, tiny – about 10 minutes

Posted in fauna, from life, garden, insects, Lexington grey | Tagged back garden sketching, fountain pen sketch, sketch of beetle, sketch of moth, sketches of insects, The Byrds | 2 Comments

Grounded

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Ed Mostly

Stuffed and numbered birds on display at the small but wonderful Stewartry Museum, Kircudbright; I didn’t have time to paint all their glorious colours, so had to settle for ink-brush monochrome, concentrating on feathers and form. Then the head of a dead Gannet found while … Continue reading →

Posted in animals, beach, beachcombing, Birds, collections, death, exhibitions, fauna, museum, sea, skulls | Tagged beachcombing sketch, fountain pen sketching, Gannet beaks, ink-brush for shading, monochrome sketches of birds, sketch of gannet head, sketch of stuffed birds, Stewartry Museum, The Byrds | Leave a comment

Waiting in town

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Ed Mostly

A bus queue lined up alongside Bath Abbey, and more tourists sat on benches (previously, and here). Drawing directly with ink means ‘mistakes’ are visible, recording the process of feeling out where the lines need to go. Usually I just restate the line, … Continue reading →