One of my watercolour sketches of the quay and boats out along the river at the North Norfolk town of Well-next-the-Sea. Wells is a pretty place, if a little over-run by tourists in the summer-time. Despite this it is still a charming place with its miniature railway, the ebb and flow of the tides and […]
This was a study done whilst working up ideas for my watercolour painting seen elsewhere on this blog as ‘Oxford Morning’ This is the view looking south from the corner of Broad Street and Catte Street in the center of Oxford and is just around the corner from the Hertford College ‘Bridge of Sighs’. Incidentally […]
The Natural History Museum in Oxford has recently re-opened after being closed for a while – so I thought I’d post my painting of this fine building. If you’d like to know more they have a twitter account. The Museum building was started in the mid 19th century, initially to house natural history specimens moved […]
Another sketch of the Hertford College Bridge of Sighs in Oxford. For other views of the bridge and of Oxford, take a look at my Oxford Gallery page (via this link https://oxfordartistonline.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/oxford/ ). There is also a smaller picture of the Bridge in my page header!
Here’s a different view of the rather impressive County Hall in Abingdon. For me this is a different style: a line drawing with solid blocks of colour infilling.