Out exploring southern Oxfordshire on the weekend. Visiting churches, in search of tea and cake but also doing some more sketching in East Hagbourne. For more see my blog below:- bryanmatthews.org/2025/08/21/s...
This afternoon visiting Abingdon and sketching this view towards the market Square. For more click on the link to my WordPress post below bryanmatthews.org/2025/08/09/a...
After a day of rain, the clouds parted and the Sun came out. Time to go for a ride to Stonesfield in West Oxfordshire and do some sketching. For more visit my WordPress site via the link below bryanmatthews.org/2025/08/07/a...
On a weekend - sketching Bath Street in Abingdon, while the world whirls on it's way. More on my blog site via the link below bryanmatthews.org/2025/03/19/s...
A couple of weeks ago I was down in South Oxfordshire- sketching Ivy Farm Cottage at West Hagbourne. More about this on my blog, below: bryanmatthews.org/2025/03/16/s...
At the weekend I took advantage of the sunshine to go sketching in Christ Church meadows, Oxford. more on my blog via the link below. bryanmatthews.org/2025/03/06/s...
Taking advantage of a sunnier day to go back out to the Oxfordshire countryside. Visiting the church and pub at Swinbrook - but still a bit too early for the daffs!
In the late afternoon I headed into Oxford - sketching St John's College with that golden light going fast... More on my WordPress site at bryanmatthews.org/2025/02/22/s...
Yesterday I braved another grey and cold day to actually go and do some sketching in Oxford. This this a sign of early Spring? More on my WordPress site at bryanmatthews.org/2025/02/14/s...
On Wednesday I went out sketching with the Oxford Urban Sketchers - drawing the the Christmas market on Broad Street. For more visit my blog below bryanmatthews.org/2024/12/06/s...
Hi Wendy I wouldn't worry too much about the time - I think your idea of the energy of your drawing or what you are trying to achieve is a better guide. Besides a incisive drawing is very often quite short anyway - good luck !
Hi Wendy How long to do a sketch - I'd guess usually about 20 minutes to half an hour for a simpler sketch. On some of the more complicated ones I find it helps to go back and do another session. B
A few days ago, I took advantage of a break in the weather to venture out: braving some of our local flooding to go sketching at the foot of the Berkshire Downs. Visiting Letcombe Regis and Letcombe Bassett to sketch churches and country cottages. More on my blog bryanmatthews.org/2024/11/28/a...
Here is one of my watercolours from a few years ago. It's of an old alleyway in Winchester - between the Cathedral and the Old Market Cross - something I call 'Walking past St.Lawrence's'. For more visit my blog at bryanmatthews.org/2024/11/27/w... or my etsy shop at www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
A tale of two sketches - drawing two sketches of Catte Street in Oxford - on consecutive Sundays. #Oxford#Sketching For more visit my blog via the link below bryanmatthews.org?p=7600
