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Capital Detail - ©2018 - Cathy Read - Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm painting of the top of a colums and decorative moulding

Painting Buckingham one Architectural Detail at a time. – 31 of the 4950 series

Architecture, Art, Buckingham Paintings + 49 50 Challenge, By City or Town, By Theme, Meditations on the Art / By

When things don’t go according to plan. Starting the 4950 Challenge , the vision of painting Buckingham was clearly mapped out. I compiled a list of architectural details and intended filling them in as I went along. By and large this has worked well. The restriction of using each building only once proved quite callenging. […]

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29 Hospital Steps - ©2018 - Cathy Read - Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm painting of hospital steps

Buckingham Art inspiration number 29 – Hospital Steps

Architecture, Art, Buckingham Paintings + 49 50 Challenge, By City or Town, By Theme, Meditations on the Art / By

Painting 29 of my Buckingham art series of Paintings is inspired by the Hospital Steps. In retrospect this should have been painting number 39, after the litaerary classic but then I always did like doing things my way. 5 steps seems a pathetically small number, even if it is accurate. These steps will be familiar

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Painting of a weather vane with a colourful stainted glass sky behind.27 Weather Vane - ©2018 - Cathy Read - Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

When a sky inspires a Stained Glass painting.

Architecture, Art, Buckingham Paintings + 49 50 Challenge, By City or Town, By Theme, Meditations on the Art / By

Today is supposed to a stained glass painting. I naturally thought of a window but I had trouble finding one, although it may have been that part of me didn’t want to. Part of the issue is there are surprisingly few in North Buckinghamshire.  Lots of Churches but most have plain glass windows. Then there’s

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Painting of a shop sign in BuckinghamShop Sign - ©2018 - Cathy Read -Watercolour and Acrylic - 17.8x17.8cm

Recognise this Shop Sign in Buckingham?

Architecture, Art, Buckingham Paintings + 49 50 Challenge, By City or Town, By Theme, Meditations on the Art / By

Here’s a familiar sign, if you know the street. but where is it? Somewhere in Buckingham, naturally. The 4950 paintings are all of features in Buckingham and surrounding villages. This one you can find on Google Maps  I’ve tried not to make it too easy for you though, where’s the fun in that? The painting

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