The other day I started a new sketchbook, this time with some Daler Rowney cold pressed 300 gsm Aquafine paper (which I have never tried before). I bought it from the Fred Aldous art shop in Manchester (my second favourite art shop), along a new Winsor & Newton pure squirrel brush (I bought the bigger one in my favourite art shop (Denny’s in Bury St. Edmunds). The little water brush is a Faber-Castell water brush which my daughters got me, and which is turning out to work very well. The squirrel brushes are fantastic – they keep a very sharp point and hold a lot of paint.

Wed-9-Aug-2023