In my last post I was drawing part of this old coaching town’s historic core from a bench in the Market place. Yesterday I went back to do some more drawing while the Sun was still shining and this post shows my progress with this so far. This is pretty much as far as I […]
The weather is gradually getting just a little more Spring-like, although still cold. With sunshine pretty much all day today I decided to venture out to the old coaching town of Faringdon, which is about 18 miles west of Oxford. This is a town that still possesses quite a bit of character and has many […]
On a cloudy day that threatened rain, I ventured into Oxford to see how the world is getting along. With Covid loosening its grip the city is becoming busy again, noticeably so over the past couple of weeks. Perhaps people just want to get out, spend money and get on with their lives? I took […]
Here in England at the end of February we are getting hopeful that Spring is almost here. Today the Sun came out and the wind dropped to offer us our first early Spring-like day. It is still a bit cold so the puffer-jackets will be in use for a while yet. Today after delivering a […]
Previously I’ve done a few sketches and the occasional watercolour of Blenheim Palace. Here I’m just playing around with a couple of similar watercolour sketches of the Palace and its landscaped surroundings. Although these are far from polished they are quite fun to do and spark a few ideas -perhaps in the summer to do […]