This week I’ve been back to draw more of the village of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire.

Stonesfield is about 8 miles NW of Oxford and so is quiet enough for me to enjoy getting out in the country again. Last week I did a post of a couple of drawings in the village of ‘The Old Bakehouse’. This time, having done some previous reconnoitering, I decided to try a landscape view from just outside the village. Setting up on a farm track, I drew a series of smaller sections of this landscape, gradually joining them together. Like most en plein-air it was again something of a learning experience as I went along.

Here is a photograph of the view.

And here are some photos of my drawings…

Here is my finished sketch.

Some days later, with some new watercolour paper, I decided to turn this into a series of new drawings and then add watercolour. The results are below.

Drawing and then watercolouring a smaller section…

And my finished landscape view of Stonesfield.