I’ve posted a couple of sketches of the grounds and Palace at Blenheim that I drew last week. This is the resulting watercolour so far. As it’s a panoramic layout, it’s difficult to show it at any reasonable scale on WordPress without zooming in to sections. For a better idea of what this actually looks […]
My last post was about sketching Blenheim Palace with views across the lake. Today I’m including another sketch. This is admittedly quite a bit scrappier than the one from my last post, but I think it has a certain amount of potential to turn it into a half-decent watercolour. So more on this later… For […]
With the weather gradually improving and a couple of hours of sunshine I made my way to the grounds of Blenheim Palace again. The grounds were fairly quiet and the Palace seems to be in an in-between state being neither fully open or closed. Still, the up-side of that was that it was relatively easy […]
I’ve been putting together a panoramic view of Blenheim Palace after visiting there for a walk around a couple of days ago. Here is my completed view, at least so far. This doesn’t fit particularly well on WordPress, mostly because my original is painted as a couple of A3-sized watercolours which were later joined together! […]
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 […]