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A couple of weeks ago I was in Oxford and decided to try drawing one of the city’s older hotels – The Randolph. The Randolph has had something of a turbulent recent past. A few years ago it had a fire that spread from the kitchen and closed the hotel for many months. Since then […]
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With the summer turning distinctly Autumnal, I’ve been trying to get out and do more drawing – before those evenings draw in and the temperatures drop. I’ve also been continuing with a fairly ambitious round of drawings – that is in terms of scope and complexity. With this in mind I went back to Oxford […]
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I’ve recently been busy sketching around Oxford, including some larger drawings, but this post is about a more modest drawing – that of the back of Market Street in Oxford. Over the weekend I visited Exeter College and attempted to do a drawing of one of their distinctive Quads. However, with a constant stream of […]
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The Martyrs’ Monument is an elaborate structure on St. Giles’, just outside the old city North Gate. Nowadays, it is largely a spot for tourists, locals or maybe the city’s homeless to sit and have a sandwich or maybe wait for a bus. It is also quite elaborate and difficult to draw, but I thought […]
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Last week I posted a drawing of the Waterstones Bookshop in Oxford and was going to also post a watercolour of this drawing – but was rather overtaken by events. Here is that post. Below is my original sketch. If you are wondering, the large object to the left is a traffic sign – and […]
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