Category: Watercolour

No. 46 Woodstock Road, Oxford – an update

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I have been preoccupied with other things for a while but today is a day off – and so I thought I’d update you with some progress on my painting of the Oxford Sciences Innovation Building in Oxford. I was out a few weeks ago drawing this modern building and completed a post of my […]

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The Esplanade at Mortehoe, Devon

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I have been looking over some photographs of past holidays, you know the sort of thing, when you could actually go out and – gasp! – go on holiday. I have a few favourite views and one of them is of a row of shops and houses at the hilltop village of Mortehoe on the […]

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More watercolour studies of the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford

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In recent posts I’ve been setting out to draw the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford. This post is an update on that. Here is my previous drawing with the addition of some basic watercolour washes – still very much a ‘study’ or a work in progress. I’ll include here also an example of a bit of […]

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The Radcliffe Observatory

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After sketching and drawing out in the countryside of Blenheim, I thought I’ve venture into the city of Oxford to do some more studies around the Royal Observatory Quarter (ROQ). I’ve been trying to do a decent drawing of the Radcliffe Observatory with the aim of maybe producing a watercolour later. One thing I can […]

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A watercolour of Blenheim Palace

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I’ve posted a couple of sketches of the grounds and Palace at Blenheim that I drew last week. This is the resulting watercolour so far. As it’s a panoramic layout, it’s difficult to show it at any reasonable scale on WordPress without zooming in to sections. For a better idea of what this actually looks […]

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