Along the canal pt.2

Last week I decided to go drawing and cycling along the Oxford Canal. It was one of those bright but crisp mornings, and a thin crust of patchy ice had formed over parts of the canal. I think most people therefore decided to stay in and turn the heating up a notch-and so there were […]

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Cycling and drawing along the canal pt. 1

With the first ice of the season I decided that it would be a good idea to get some exercise and cycle along the Oxford Canal on a sunny and rather crisp morning. I also took my sketch pad and despite the cold found that it wasn’t too bad to stand and draw for half-an-hour […]

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Cottages at Church Hanborough

In September I was out drawing in the nearby village of Church Hanborough and did a post of the results. With this weeks cold weather I’ve taken the easy option and have started to add watercolour to some of my summer sketches. This is something that I hope to do some more of while the […]

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Starting to paint Gee’s restaurant, Oxford

Gee’s restaurant is set amongst the well-to-do Victorian houses on the Banbury Road in North Oxford. It occupies what was once a greenhouse and conservatory, built at the end of the 18th century as a sort of forerunner of our modern garden-centres. Back in the balmy days of summer I spent an hour or so […]

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Drawing the Skoda Garage

In the summer when I took the opportunity to go out and do some sketching I settled on our local Skoda garage, With urban sketching you don’t always end up drawing what you expect but that is probably part of its charm, where drawing and observation prompt you to draw things you might not have […]

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