In the summertime and particularly on a weekend, Oxford can be a busy place. Making the trip in on a Sunday and cycling along Broad Street it is really noticeable that the tourist season is upon us – especially when you have three or four coach parties in the same place at the same time. […]
On a Sunday afternoon I took a trip out to the village of Bishopstone which lies just over the border from Oxfordshire into Wiltshire. This is one of a string of villages along the northern slopes of the Ridgeway set in some pretty special countryside. My trip was specifically to draw one of Bishopstone’s picturesque […]
East Hagbourne is a village just to the south of Didcot in southern Oxfordshire. It is a charming place with a whole array of old houses around its centre. Many of these are timber framed and some are thatched. There is also a good pub and an interesting church but my focus on my last […]
Sometimes you just fancy a bit of sketching – and fairly local to me in North Oxford there is our Skoda car sales showroom. It is a building that an urban sketcher might take an interest in with its distinctive modern roof. So, finding a convenient bench, I sat down and started drawing. it was […]
It seems to have rained almost every day for three months now. As an urban sketcher- or pretty much any kind of outdoor sketcher – this kind of cramps your style and limits what you can or might want to sketch. One solution is to find a nice cafe, get a beverage of some sort […]