Radcliffe Camera Take 2
My second attempt to sketch this building might be wonky and out of proportion BUT I did get the overall configuration and that syncopation right this time! Hopefully, you can read my notes!
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Testing orange and red mixes
March 27, 2012 | Leave your thoughts
The best way to test your paints is to find some objects and go for it – this is exactly what I did tonight. Need to do some more testing as I was experimenting with various mixes on this page. As you can see I rounded up some usual suspects to draw (but no teacup?!...
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Radcliffe Camera: 12 years later and still wrong!
March 26, 2012 | Leave your thoughts
A sketch I did last week of Radcliffe Camera in Oxford (hardly concentrating on it) which I realised was incorrect later in the week. I did some research on the building (including my own photo album with extensive sketches and notes and quotes from my visit to Oxford in 2000) and realised that the last...
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An unplanned weekend
March 24, 2012 | Leave your thoughts
Just a quiet weekend… it was a lovely Friday evening so although exhausted I needed to go-a-sketching…. Guess where? But I am NOT going to sketch that building again!!! (rash statement!) Sometimes a little sketch is the perfect thing to do on a Friday evening before going home after a long hard week of work....
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A t2 visit with a difference
March 17, 2012 | Leave your thoughts
.. no ink lines to my cup of tea (oh! I AM enjoying this!) and more time and pages used sketching people.
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Friday Night at Bathers, Balmoral
March 17, 2012 | Leave your thoughts
Went to see a friend’s wonderful exhibition. I arrived early (as it turned out the others did too) so I did a few sketches to fill in time. It was incredibly windy and Bathers Pavilion is a very challenging building to sketch… A great dinner chatting about art, sketching and travel. Shockingly, we didn’t have...
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