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Those of you that had a look at my recent posts will have seen my drawing (above) and subsequent watercolour of the row of houses on the Esplanade in Mortehoe on the north Devon coast. The watercolour of this drawing is really just a first attempt, and in this case I decided to try a […]
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I have been looking over some photographs of past holidays, you know the sort of thing, when you could actually go out and – gasp! – go on holiday. I have a few favourite views and one of them is of a row of shops and houses at the hilltop village of Mortehoe on the […]
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On a recent day of sunny and warmish weather I ventured out to explore the South Oxfordshire countryside and the possibility of sketching something. This post is about my sketch of the village of Cholsey, which is about 10 miles south of Oxford. The area around Cholsey lies on slightly raised ground between the Thames […]
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I’ve posted a couple of sketches of the grounds and Palace at Blenheim that I drew last week. This is the resulting watercolour so far. As it’s a panoramic layout, it’s difficult to show it at any reasonable scale on WordPress without zooming in to sections. For a better idea of what this actually looks […]
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My last post was about sketching Blenheim Palace with views across the lake. Today I’m including another sketch. This is admittedly quite a bit scrappier than the one from my last post, but I think it has a certain amount of potential to turn it into a half-decent watercolour. So more on this later… For […]
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