A view of Brasenose College, Oxford

November 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

After an excursion into some urban sketching last week I thought I’d put up this older post. This is more like a classic view of one of the Oxford Colleges and it is of the entrance to the Old Quad at Brasenose from Radcliffe Square, with the Radcliffe Camera in the background.

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 […]