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Sketching The Liaison on a rainy day in Oxford

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I’m settling into a typically English summer – and here in Oxford that means occasional days of rain too. So on a wet and dull day I ventured back into the city and sat on the steps of the Westgate shopping centre to do yet another sketch of the old Liaison Cantonese take-away. This is […]

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Sketching Blenheim on a Sunday afternoon

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Sometimes on a weekend I will go into Oxford to sketch but the crowds can get to be a bit much – depending where exactly you are sketching. As an alternative, visiting Blenheim Palace is usually quieter and less pressured, so last Sunday, with a shiny new yearly pass, I ventured back to the Palace. […]

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More sketching in Brill

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Yesterday I went back to Brill in western Buckinghamshire for another late lunch and to sit and do a little more sketching. My last post was about sketching the church here- and some of those Brill chimneys. On this trip, in the late afternoon sunshine I did some more house and chimney sketching to complete […]

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Brill Sketching

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The village of Brill in west Buckinghamshire is a bit of an oddity. It is a little bit off the beaten path, sited on a big hill some seven miles south of Bicester and it seems to have a other-worldly charm to it. The houses and building mostly seem to date from the 17th C. […]

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Learning from experience? Drawing St. Mary’s Church at Ashbury.

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Here in Oxfordshire we’ve been waiting for the summer proper to arrive. With high pressure over the North Sea and winds from the northeast we’ve been having a lot of cloudy mornings – not good for drawing. However yesterday the Sun came out a little earlier and it was like a proper summer’s day for […]

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