FredAldous

92-2803 – Where the river does a u-turn Peel Park

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On Sunday 4th August we started our day with a trip to Fred Aldous (my favourite art shop in Manchester) where I restrained myself and only bought two packets of SeaWhite paper (we don’t have enough weight allowance for me to bring much back to the Philippines). Then we visited Salford Museum and Art Gallery and walked around the nearby Peel Park. I sketched this while my wife and daughter wandered off to see “the meadow” which is in a meander of the river Irwell. The statue is of Joseph Brotherton, representative of the borough of Salford in the House of Commons for 24 years (from 1832 to 1857).

Sun-4-Aug-2024

77-2439 – New sketchbook, new paper, new brushes

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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