Revisiting my drawings of Blenheim Palace, with the aim of working up some panoramas of the palace and grounds. The palace itself is quite difficult to draw, with a mass of detail in it’s turrets, towers and ornamentation – but hopefully this is a decent enough sketch. This is one of two original A3 sized […]
Cuxham is a small village in southern Oxfordshire. The village straddles a small stream, the Marlbrook, with some large farm buildings to the west and a small church that originally dates back to pre-Norman times. For me this is usually a stop on the way to Watlington, about another mile or so to the southeast. […]
A couple of weeks ago I visited the village of Aldbourne in Wiltshire and stopped to explore the village and do a drawing of their magnificent church. Here is an update on that drawing. I’ve added a little more line work to extend the drawing and to add a bit of perspective – and started […]
A new drawing and watercolour of one of the colourful villages on the Cinque Terre coast of NW Italy. Here is my line and wash of Riomaggiore, which is probably the largest of the Cinque Terre villages, at the southern end of this area. The coast here is typically very rocky with steep slopes and […]
Northleach in Gloucestershire is an old market town perhaps best know for its impressive ‘Wool’ church. The town has many fine stone buildings but for me the half-timbered Tudor House in an area known as ‘The Green’ is a star attraction. This building is presently occupied by a family Butchers at one end and a […]