Category: Buildings

The Oxford Sciences Innovation building at No. 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford

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In a recent post I’ve been attempting to draw the Radcliffe Observatory in the Royal Observatory Quarter (ROQ) of Oxford. This area also has quite a selection of modern buildings, including the Blavatnik, the Mathematics Institute Buildings and others. Just across the road is another new building – the Oxford Sciences Innovation Building at No. […]

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The Radcliffe Observatory

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After sketching and drawing out in the countryside of Blenheim, I thought I’ve venture into the city of Oxford to do some more studies around the Royal Observatory Quarter (ROQ). I’ve been trying to do a decent drawing of the Radcliffe Observatory with the aim of maybe producing a watercolour later. One thing I can […]

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A watercolour of Blenheim Palace

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I’ve posted a couple of sketches of the grounds and Palace at Blenheim that I drew last week. This is the resulting watercolour so far. As it’s a panoramic layout, it’s difficult to show it at any reasonable scale on WordPress without zooming in to sections. For a better idea of what this actually looks […]

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Sketching Blenheim Palace No.2

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My last post was about sketching Blenheim Palace with views across the lake. Today I’m including another sketch. This is admittedly quite a bit scrappier than the one from my last post, but I think it has a certain amount of potential to turn it into a half-decent watercolour. So more on this later… For […]

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Sketching Blenheim Palace No.1

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With the weather gradually improving and a couple of hours of sunshine I made my way to the grounds of Blenheim Palace again. The grounds were fairly quiet and the Palace seems to be in an in-between state being neither fully open or closed. Still, the up-side of that was that it was relatively easy […]

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