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Yesterday I took a few moments to stand and sketch the Cupola of the Sheldonian Theatre again. The nearby Radcliffe Square was full of heavy-duty filming equipment with powerful spotlights illuminating the Radcliffe Camera itself for a new film, Willy Wonka, apparently. Walking through the quad at the Bodleian to the Sheldonian was stepping away […]
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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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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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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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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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