With the weather improving I decided to brave the showers and blustery weather to do some more drawing around Oxford. Finding a view point from among the various cycle stands on Broad Street I settled down to draw a view along the street. Below is a cropped version of the drawing and my finished drawing […]
I have been looking back at past holiday photographs, in this case from Pisa in Italy. One of my favourite subjects from this historic City is the Baptistery of San Giovanni in the famous Piazza dei Mirocoli. I have done various other drawings and watercolours around Pisa in the past but this is my latest […]
A couple of months ago I was out doing some drawings around Christ Church College. These feature in previous posts as drawings of ‘The Meadows’ and of Christ Church from St. Aldates. Here is my is my update on this ‘classic’ view from the road at St. Aldates. This is now also a print available […]
This weekend with the weather improving I took a ride out down country lanes to Rousham House in North Oxfordshire. I wasn’t specifically going to visit to house and gardens themselves but to visit the adjacent (12th C) church with its clipped Yew trees. I also found a different view of the house and stables […]
About a month ago I was out sketching the South Oxfordshire countryside, which resulted in my post ‘Sketching Cholsey‘ (6th April). This is an update on that post – with my initial watercolour of the landscape looking towards Cholsey. Below is my original drawing and a view of the drawing in-situ. And a panoramic close […]