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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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A few days ago I was out drawing at Folly Bridge in Oxford. If you have seen my last post you’ll know I have been working up a couple of drawings and starting a watercolour of my sketch. This is pretty much where I ended up last time… And here is my slightly more finished […]
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Yesterday the Sun made an appearance and I made my way into Oxford – to take some photos and hopefully find somewhere to sketch. I eventually settled next to the river at Folly Bridge, on the southern side of the city centre. This turned out to be a pretty good spot, fairly quiet and sheltered, […]
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Today I started a study of the Old Tom bell-tower and entrance to Christ Church College, Oxford. Looking through my previous posts I’m a bit surprised that I’ve not posted any previous drawings of this iconic Oxford landmark. This is perhaps because it’s quite hard to do this tower and frontage justice. My drawing is […]
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During a flying visit to the village of Islip, near Oxford, I settled down to do a quick sketch of the church there. With squally showers blowing across the fields I produced the quick sketch below and later I took a bit more time to paint the relatively simple watercolour above. One thing I did […]
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