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It has been hovering around freezing here for a while but I suppose that is to be expected in mid January. A good thing about this is we have also had a few crisp sunny days and that is enough to tempt me to go out sketching again. So it was that yesterday I set […]
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Northern Oxfordshire has some good pubs and countryside to explore while also being relatively quiet and un-trampled. A favourite pub in this part of the world is The Stag’s Head at Swalcliffe, about 4 miles SW of Banbury. If driving from Oxford to Swalcliffe you will most likely pass through the nearby village of Tadmarton. […]
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It has been wet and cold for a while and I have not been out doing as much sketching as I’d like. However yesterday the Sun came out briefly whilst visiting the Christ Church College Meadows and I did manage to do a couple of sketches. One is a re-hash of an earlier drawing, except […]
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Back in May I was visiting our local Artweeks events in Watlington, a small town at the foot of the Ridgeway hills in southern Oxfordshire. While there I decided to also do a small sketch of one of the many characterful local houses – in this case a former pub – Black Horse House- with […]
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I went back to Blenheim Palace to do some more sketching, this time with the aim to add more drawings for a new panoramic view. I found a quiet spot in the main courtyard to sit and sketch a couple of drawings. After a day of scattered showers the sun decided to come back out […]
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