Waterstones – colouring in

February 26, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A couple of days ago I did a line drawing of the Waterstones bookshop in Oxford – and as an update here is that drawing coloured in and slightly expanded.

A sketch of the Waterstones Building in Oxford

February 24, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Hello everybody. Not posting for a while but feeling a little more inspired than of late … the typical “will it stop raining?” but perhaps getting a little more hopeful that it will. This is one of my pencil drawings of the building housing Waterstones in Oxford – also tweeting a watercolour version of this […]

The Guitarist

February 12, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Here is another of my Oxford townscapes. Taking a walk around the town – on a cold and bright day – and struck by the view of this guitarist casting shadows against the light. So trying a slightly different technique, here’s my take on that view.

St. Peter’s Church at Upper Slaughter

January 28, 2020.Reading time 1 minute.

After a series of boaty posts here is a view of St. Peter’s Church at Upper Slaughter in the Cotswolds. A slightly different approach for me but I quite like the ‘spiky’ trees and grassy bank on this one. Upper Slaughter is a picturesque village not too far from Bourton-on-the-Water and Stow-on-the-Wold. Beyond the church […]

Two boats at Sennen Cove, Cornwall

January 25, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Another study of a couple of smaller fishing boats, pulled out on the slipway and next to the lifeboat station, with the old winding house in the background. In past times the winding house would have had a horse or donkey to walk the windlas around. Nowadays it is home to an atmospheric art gallery.