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Cirencester is about an hour’s drive from Oxford, so a bit of a trek but usually worth it. Over the years I’ve visited several times and have done a few sketches and watercolours of the town, but now looking through my previous posts I don’t seem to have posted any of them. So here is […]
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Sometimes on a weekend I’ll go into Oxford to do a little sketching. Depending on how busy the city is at any particular time, it is quite nice to just do some sketching for relaxation. A subject I keep returning to in Oxford is the Sheldonian Theatre. Here I am sketching from outside the Sheldonian […]
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The Oxford Town Hall is described as ‘Jacobean’ in style by Wikipedia and, when you look at it, it is quite a complicated building. That is probably why it hardly ever appears in sketches – it is just too daunting! Nonetheless, I’ve been building up to draw more complicated views around Oxford so I thought […]
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On a quiet Easter Sunday afternoon I made my way into Oxford and settled on doing a drawing from outside the Radcliffe Observatory. The most striking thing from this viewpoint is the new site between the Observatory and the Blavatnik Building (links below). Here they are constructing a big new Humanities building which will hopefully […]
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After a short holiday in Ghent, Belgium I’ve been trying to get out more – starting to revisit various Cotswold’s towns and places. Northleach is a town I’ve visited on the way and done some sketching in. It is a old market town, that has a big ‘wool’ church and most of the town built […]
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