Category: Landscape

Bladon Church, near Woodstock

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This is my watercolour of St. Martin’s Church in the village of Bladon, which is immediately southeast of the grounds at Blenheim Palace. St. Martin’s is the parish church for Woodstock and is perhaps best known as the resting place of Sir Winston Churchill and other members of the Spencer-Churchill family. Bladon is now a […]

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Drawing St. Mary’s Church at North Leigh

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It was another cloudy day today but with a few breaks in the clouds – enough to make it worthwhile to go out and try some more drawing. So I ventured out to North Leigh near Witney, to take another look at the church there and possibly do a drawing. I settled near the entrance […]

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A view of Blenheim Palace – a watercolour

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On Saturday I visited Blenheim and took the time to sit down and sketch the palace from across the lake. Today I added a little more drawing and finishing this as a watercolour sketch (above). For those of you who missed my original post here is the original sketch too. If you’d like to see […]

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A view of blenheim from across the lake

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I took a cycle ride out to Blenheim Palace yesterday. I’m not sure that I have ever seen it so busy – so many people out walking. I did however manage to find a quiet spot and settled down to do a drawing of the Palace from across the lake. Above is the resulting drawing […]

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Tenby Harbour boats V

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I’ve been looking back over some of my summer holiday photos – this time of Tenby and Tenby harbour and decided to have a go at another view of the harbour. The result is this painting. Its a bit more ‘Big Sky’ and panoramic than my usual layouts and I’m not too sure that sits […]

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