A view of Blenheim Palace – a watercolour

On Saturday I visited Blenheim and took the time to sit down and sketch the palace from across the lake. Today I added a little more drawing and finishing this as a watercolour sketch (above). For those of you who missed my original post here is the original sketch too. If you’d like to see […]

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The Soho Bar, Alicante

Here is something a bit different from me – it’s a painting of the Soho Bar in Alicante. The bar consists of a small rotunda kiosk with surrounding decking and wicker chairs – all beneath the shade of one of the large trees growing around the city parks. It is a great place for a […]

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The Ebenezer

This is one of my older drawings, of the fishing trawler Ebenezer, and is dug out of the archives to show some contrast between my artwork now and some time ago. Whilst trawling my pictures I also came across another drawing of the Ebenezer – below. This is more sketchy (and less cleaned-up) and goes […]

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The Almondry and St.Mary’s Gate in Gloucester

This is one of my earlier style watercolour illustrations. Its of the southern side of the cathedral precinct in Gloucester. If you know this area it is were you can walk through an underpass under the former Almondry building from or to the adjacent housing estate. In past times this was where alms were given […]

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Abingdon Town Square sketch

After my last post ‘sketching Abingdon Town Square’ , I’ve been working on putting together a more panoramic view. Above is the resulting finished watercolour sketch and below is my drawing for this… It is still very much a work in progress but something that is fun to do.

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