Going back to Stonesfield

On the shortest day of the year the sun decided that it was going to come out and the rain stopped for a while. Well, we don’t get that many good days this time of year so I decided to skip the consumerist frenzy that is Christmas shopping for the day and go out to […]

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Sketching crows on The Lizard

On a recent holiday we stayed for a few nights on the Lizard, Cornwall, and used that as a base to tour around. I am usually an early riser and from our B&B had a good view of the hundreds of crows that regularly gathered on the phone lines and cables around the village shortly […]

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Another view of Stonesfield

After a day of rain the skies brightened, the clouds parted and it turned into a nice summer’s evening. So – time to get the bike out and go for a ride; this time over to Stonesfield which is about ten miles west of Oxford. This is somewhere I’ve been sketching before as the village […]

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Chipping Norton mill

The old Bliss Tweed Mill at Chipping Norton is quite a landmark but one that you tend to just pass by on the way to somewhere else. So on a sunny Sunday afternoon I decided to make the trip out and actually try to sketch this impressive building. The Bliss Mill was originally built in […]

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Sketching on Oxford High Street on another chilly day

In southern England the weather has been cold, grey and unexceptional for weeks now – and there has been hardly a glimmer of Sun. That means it is harder to go out and actually feel inspired enough to draw something. Hence no postings for a while. Yesterday I decided I’d dress for the weather, go […]

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