Sketching on the corner of Catte Street and Broad Street, Oxford

July 16, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

In the summertime and particularly on a weekend, Oxford can be a busy place. Making the trip in on a Sunday and cycling along Broad Street it is really noticeable that the tourist season is upon us – especially when you have three or four coach parties in the same place at the same time. […]

Sketching the Skoda Showroom

May 31, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

Sometimes you just fancy a bit of sketching – and fairly local to me in North Oxford there is our Skoda car sales showroom. It is a building that an urban sketcher might take an interest in with its distinctive modern roof. So, finding a convenient bench, I sat down and started drawing. it was […]

Sitting in the John Lewis Cafe on a rainy day – and sketching the Westgate Centre, Oxford.

April 29, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

It seems to have rained almost every day for three months now. As an urban sketcher- or pretty much any kind of outdoor sketcher – this kind of cramps your style and limits what you can or might want to sketch. One solution is to find a nice cafe, get a beverage of some sort […]

The Old School and Parish Clerk’s House, Yarnton.

March 1, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

The village is just to the north of Oxford and about 1/2 mile outside the A34 bypass. It has a Historic Village sign outside the old turnpike and there is some history, though you might not know it from passing by on the main road to or from nearby Woodstock. In a previous post I […]

From a big barn to a ruined barn – sketching outside of Oxford

February 26, 2024.Reading time 2 minutes.

Last week I was out drawing the big ‘Oxford North’ building site with its proposed ‘Big Red barn’, offices, housing and attendant building cranes. This week as a change I decided to draw something a little smaller – a ruinous shed or barn I saw passing by to the nearby village of Yarnton. This was […]

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