Sketching Blenheim Palace from the formal gardens

It has been hovering around freezing here for a while but I suppose that is to be expected in mid January. A good thing about this is we have also had a few crisp sunny days and that is enough to tempt me to go out sketching again. So it was that yesterday I set […]

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Sketching at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

The small town of Woodstock is a few miles north of Oxford and is mostly visited because it is right next to Blenheim Palace and the Palace estate. The town is however worth exploring as it has a couple of art galleries, a selection of pubs and hotels and a few other attractions – such […]

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A watercolour sketch of Arlington Row, Bibury

Bibury is one of the classic Cotswolds villages and Arlington Row with its water meadow and clear water stream is definitely worth a visit. This is another of my watercolour studies of this row of picturesque cottages in the village and is one of several attempts at getting a decent painting of this view – […]

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