Sketching the Six Bells at Warborough

After sketching a row of cottages in Warborough a couple of weeks ago I thought I’d go back and attempt to draw their pub – The Six Bells. However, what a difference the weather makes – drawing the cottages I choose to find some shade from brilliant sunshine and temperatures in the high 20s (C). […]

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A Naunton Landscape

The Gloucestershire village of Naunton is about six miles east of Stow-on-the-Wold, set among rolling hills in this part of the Cotswolds. The main road from Stow runs to the south of the village and you need to turn off to drive into the village if coming from this direction. Probably best known to walkers […]

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Adding watercolour to a drawing – Warborough Cottages

After drawing a row of cottages in the village of Warborough in southern Oxfordshire a couple of days ago, here is my attempt at adding watercolour to that drawing. Here is the original drawing… And a view of my drawing on location…

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Drawing Fulbrook Church

Fulbrook is a village in West Oxfordshire, a few miles NE of Burford. The village is mentioned in the Doomsday book and has a small Norman church tucked away just off the main road. The church is therefore easy to miss, especially if like most people you are travelling on the relatively straight road to […]

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Swinbrook Church

Here is one of my older watercolours – of St. Mary’s Church in the small village of Swinbrook. Swinbrook is in a small river valley a few miles to the east of Burford. The church itself isn’t that inspiring from the outside, though its setting on raised ground in the village is interesting – and […]

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