When I’m out doing some urban sketching it is sometimes useful to find somewhere to sit. So on one of my Sunday sketching trips into Oxford I settled for a spot of cafe sketching. This is a view of our local art supplies shop – Broad Canvas – and it also takes in a cafe […]
Bath Street is a small side street in an area known as St. Clements – just to the east of the Oxford city centre. There’s a main road lined with a collection of pubs, eateries, fast food places and a few little shops. There is also a lot of student accommodation in the area and […]
On a recent holiday we stayed for a few nights on the Lizard, Cornwall, and used that as a base to tour around. I am usually an early riser and from our B&B had a good view of the hundreds of crows that regularly gathered on the phone lines and cables around the village shortly […]
A little while back we were on holiday and travelling some of the various tiny roads of Cornwall between Looe and Polruan. Of course we took another trip to Polperro, a tourist hot-spot and one of our favourite Cornish fishing villages. This also meant a visit to the village car park and 20th-century coin payment […]
Abingdon is a town with a history – and quite a few old buildings to prove it. Personally, when it comes to sketching architecture, I like my buildings a bit askew, wonky, even. So when I came across a good piece of medieval overhang by the Market Square in Abingdon, it seemed a good opportunity […]