Sketching Oxford Town Hall

April 16, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Oxford cranes – at the Observatory

April 14, 2023.Reading time 3 minutes.

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 […]

Sketching Northleach

April 11, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Daskalides, Ghent – sketching

April 9, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Here is the last in a series or sketches done on holiday in Ghent, Belgium. It is a drawing of a row of shops next to the Gravensteen Castle. With this it was a matter of finding somewhere to draw from – eventually opting to stand amidst a mass of bicycle racks to draw the […]

More canal-side sketching in Ghent, Belgium – an update

April 7, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

This was my view from the ‘Korenlei Twee’ – a well known cafe-restaurant and tourist viewpoint in central Ghent. … and here is my sketch in-situ. Later I went back to add to my sketch – and maybe have another hot chocolate. Below is a scan of my sketch after a little bit of re-working. […]