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The Cowley Road in east Oxford has a colourful mix of eateries, convenience stores, charity shops and pubs – and is a good spot for an occasional bit of urban sketching. Although the buildings here are a little rundown, there are still some interesting buildings-if you look. Setting up opposite a row of eateries this […]
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A couple of weeks ago I was in Oxford and decided to try drawing one of the city’s older hotels – The Randolph. The Randolph has had something of a turbulent recent past. A few years ago it had a fire that spread from the kitchen and closed the hotel for many months. Since then […]
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With the summer turning distinctly Autumnal, I’ve been trying to get out and do more drawing – before those evenings draw in and the temperatures drop. I’ve also been continuing with a fairly ambitious round of drawings – that is in terms of scope and complexity. With this in mind I went back to Oxford […]
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A few days ago I posted a view of Market Street in Oxford – Sketching Market Street, Oxford – and today returned to do some more drawing. This is also a view that I’ve drawn before, quite a long time ago, as ‘An Entrance to the Covered Market, Oxford‘. That was at the beginning of […]
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Last weekend, was the Oxford ‘Open Doors’ – where some of the colleges, other notable buildings and landmarks are open to the public for a few hours. After visiting a couple of smaller colleges, I took a wander around The Bodleian Library’s’ Old Quad and decided to draw the ornate Tower of the Five Orders. […]
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