Paradise Street No. 2

My last post was about drawing new construction works on Paradise Street in Oxford. This one is progressing thats a little bit further and turning it into a watercolour sketch. Here is my initial sketch from the last post. After cleaning my drawing up a bit, I started adding some colour, in this case doing […]

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Paradise Street

After recently being away on holiday to Spain I thought I’d revisit Oxford City centre for a bit of Urban sketching. The area between the new Westgate Shopping centre and the Castle is something of a favourite to sketch. Perhaps it is the contrast between the glittering new shopping centre and the remnants of the […]

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Back to Faringdon

I have been doing a series of drawings around the Old Town Hall and Market Square in Faringdon. This is the last of this present series of drawings. With the Spring weather here becoming more winter-like, I’ve spent a couple of hours today finishing off another of my drawings while waves of snow showers are […]

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More drawing in Faringdon

I’ve done a series of sketches in the old coaching market town of Faringdon over the past couple of weeks. Today was a day for catching up with some more drawing of one of these views. Below is a photo of a view I chose to draw, tucked in next to the Old Town Hall […]

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Back to Faringdon – a new panorama

Our bright English Spring seems to temporarily waning again, at least for a while, so I’ve been out trying to make the most of things. I returned to the old coaching town of Faringdon to try my hand at another panorama. This is how I got on. Faringdon Old Town Hall and the Market Square […]

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