A few days ago I was doing some urban sketching in Oxford city centre, drawing the KFC at Cornmarket So, continuing on a theme, yesterday I was back drawing more fast food places – this time the Kebab Kid & Tops Pizza out on the Cowley Road. This is a part of town out from […]
Sometimes you just feel like a bit of sketching. Even though Oxford has its fair share of grand or historic buildings, sometimes it is good to have a change, to mix it up a bit – and maybe draw the local KFC. For me this also has the advantage of being close to one of […]
I’m settling into a typically English summer – and here in Oxford that means occasional days of rain too. So on a wet and dull day I ventured back into the city and sat on the steps of the Westgate shopping centre to do yet another sketch of the old Liaison Cantonese take-away. This is […]
Over the past few days I’ve been doing some sketching around around the north of the city centre, mostly around what could loosely be called ‘the student quarter’ – otherwise known as little Clarendon Street. In amongst the bars and eateries there are some interesting shops – and one of these is ‘The Last Bookshop’ […]
The Cowley Road in east Oxford turns out to be one of the more rewarding places for me to sketch and I’ve done a few posts from this busy and jumbled road (thumbnails and links at the end). My latest is a view of the Baptist centre which I think also doubles as an arts […]