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The Cowley Road in east Oxford turns out to be one of the more rewarding places for me to sketch and I’ve done a few posts from this busy and jumbled road (thumbnails and links at the end). My latest is a view of the Baptist centre which I think also doubles as an arts […]
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Sometimes on a weekend I’ll go into Oxford to do a little sketching. Depending on how busy the city is at any particular time, it is quite nice to just do some sketching for relaxation. A subject I keep returning to in Oxford is the Sheldonian Theatre. Here I am sketching from outside the Sheldonian […]
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The Oxford Town Hall is described as ‘Jacobean’ in style by Wikipedia and, when you look at it, it is quite a complicated building. That is probably why it hardly ever appears in sketches – it is just too daunting! Nonetheless, I’ve been building up to draw more complicated views around Oxford so I thought […]
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On a quiet Easter Sunday afternoon I made my way into Oxford and settled on doing a drawing from outside the Radcliffe Observatory. The most striking thing from this viewpoint is the new site between the Observatory and the Blavatnik Building (links below). Here they are constructing a big new Humanities building which will hopefully […]
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A couple of weeks ago I was sketching the Randolph Hotel’s skyline from the rooftop restaurant at the Ashmolean Museum. This is in a previous post ‘Sketching the Randolph’s skyline – pt. 1’. Since then the weather has not been too good – with snow, rain and wind. However yesterday the temperatures rose a little […]
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