Sketching Shakespeare’s Stratford – The Guildhall

With the sun shining, Spring appears to be finally here. I ventured out to Stratford Upon Avon. At this time of year the town was thankfully not too busy but in the high Summer the place can be awash with tourists. On this visit it was quiet enough to find a seat and have lunch […]

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Sketching Faringdon, part 3

My last couple of posts have been about sketching in the Market Square in Faringdon, Oxfordshire. I’ve since been back and drawn a third part to add to this panorama – this is the drawing below… If you are wondering why the building on the right has been left largely undrawn it’s because it is […]

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Sketching Faringdon part 2

In my last post I was drawing part of this old coaching town’s historic core from a bench in the Market place. Yesterday I went back to do some more drawing while the Sun was still shining and this post shows my progress with this so far. This is pretty much as far as I […]

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Sketching Faringdon

The weather is gradually getting just a little more Spring-like, although still cold. With sunshine pretty much all day today I decided to venture out to the old coaching town of Faringdon, which is about 18 miles west of Oxford. This is a town that still possesses quite a bit of character and has many […]

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A drawing of a Brisfit

Hendon Air Museum is one place I hope to return to this year when I feel confident that the ravages of Covid have sufficiently abated. In the meantime I’ve been doing some sketching and drawing from photographs taken years ago on previous visits to the museum. The drawing above is of a Bristol reconnaissance aircraft […]

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