In the summer when I took the opportunity to go out and do some sketching I settled on our local Skoda garage, With urban sketching you don’t always end up drawing what you expect but that is probably part of its charm, where drawing and observation prompt you to draw things you might not have […]
Here is one of my slightly older watercolours – it is of St Mary’s Church in Adderbury. This is an imposing church, one of the largest in northern Oxfordshire and features an ornate Lady Chapel built in the perpendicular style. Like a lot of country churches it is a little off the main roads but […]
After an excursion into some urban sketching last week I thought I’d put up this older post. This is more like a classic view of one of the Oxford Colleges and it is of the entrance to the Old Quad at Brasenose from Radcliffe Square, with the Radcliffe Camera in the background.
I thought I’d put up something a little different today – a bit of urban sketching from around Oxford. This is a view of what may be taken as unprepossessing shops on Between Towns Road at Temple Cowley, Oxford. A couple of the aspects that I like from this view that I like are the […]