Urban sketching – a drawing of shops at Temple Cowley

November 11, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

I thought I’d put up something a little different today – a bit of urban sketching from around Oxford. This is a view of what may be taken as unprepossessing shops on Between Towns Road at Temple Cowley, Oxford. A couple of the aspects that I like from this view that I like are the […]

A view of Stow-on-the-Wold Market Square

November 2, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

This is a more tightly defined drawing and watercolour of the Market Square and the market cross in the Cotswolds town of Stow-on-the-Wold, perhaps better defined as a ‘line and wash’. I visited Stow a couple of weeks ago, on the way back from a day out in the Cotswolds. It is a charming place […]

Painting buildings in Faringdon

October 25, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

After a day out a couple of weeks ago I stopped off at the old coaching town of Faringdon. The town has a collection of fine old coaching Inns, some nice vernacular architecture and still retains the feel of an old town, with its relatively narrow and winding main streets. It also has a characterful […]

Drawing St. Mary’s church at Ashbury

October 16, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

This week I managed to get out the village of Ashbury in the Vale of the White Horse. Ashbury is one of a series of villages along the foot of the northern escarpment of the Marlborough Downs and is close to both Wayland’s Smithy and the ancient Ridgeway. The village also has a number of […]

Sketching around Blenheim

October 13, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

This weekend I managed to visit Blenheim Palace again for an afternoon of sketching. With plenty of October sunshine and left pretty much alone this is a good place to sketch. Firstly I set up to draw the lake and the view back to Woodstock. This is pretty much the view in the photograph below […]