Tag: Sketch

The Old School and Parish Clerk’s House, Yarnton.

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The village is just to the north of Oxford and about 1/2 mile outside the A34 bypass. It has a Historic Village sign outside the old turnpike and there is some history, though you might not know it from passing by on the main road to or from nearby Woodstock. In a previous post I […]

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Sketching Black Horse House in Watlington, Oxfordshire

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Back in May I was visiting our local Artweeks events in Watlington, a small town at the foot of the Ridgeway hills in southern Oxfordshire. While there I decided to also do a small sketch of one of the many characterful local houses – in this case a former pub – Black Horse House- with […]

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A scottish fishing village

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I haven’t been out for a while to draw or sketch – probably down to the freezing temperatures and windchill. So instead of my usual ‘Plein-Airs’ here is a sketch but of a made-up Scottish fishing village. This is not a real location, rather an excuse to indulge in drawing some fishing boats again. As […]

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Scooters on Ship Street

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The junction of Ship Street and Cornmarket in Oxford is a busy junction near the centre of the city. Cornmarket is a pedestrianised shopping street but scooter delivery riders can walk their way across this busy shopping street with their bikes without fearing a fine. Over time this has grown to be a busy route […]

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