Sketching the Randolph Hotel -part 2

A couple of weeks ago I was sketching the Randolph Hotel’s skyline from the rooftop restaurant at the Ashmolean Museum. This is in a previous post ‘Sketching the Randolph’s skyline – pt. 1’. Since then the weather has not been too good – with snow, rain and wind. However yesterday the temperatures rose a little […]

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Sketching the Randolph’s skyline : part 1

This week while visiting the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford I also tried the lunch at their rooftop restaurant – and very good it was too! However, being an urban sketcher, I was quite taken with the view of the rooftops from the Ashmolean to the Randolph Hotel opposite – and decided to return equipped with […]

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Drawing the Randolph Hotel, Oxford

A couple of weeks ago I was in Oxford and decided to try drawing one of the city’s older hotels – The Randolph. The Randolph has had something of a turbulent recent past. A few years ago it had a fire that spread from the kitchen and closed the hotel for many months. Since then […]

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Sketching the Martyrs’ Monument, Oxford

The Martyrs’ Monument is an elaborate structure on St. Giles’, just outside the old city North Gate. Nowadays, it is largely a spot for tourists, locals or maybe the city’s homeless to sit and have a sandwich or maybe wait for a bus. It is also quite elaborate and difficult to draw, but I thought […]

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