I took a lift over to Letchworth and found myself breaking in my new watercolour pad. It’s a really heavy-weight Arches pad, but the same size as the watercolour Moleskin that I was using before. It has a lot more texture, and seems to soak up a lot of water quicker – but it’s no good with the soft pencils I liked to use, as it blunts them immediately. I gave drawing in pen a quick go on the bottom two boxes, but I was starving and people kept walking past with delicious-smelling chips from the takeaway next to me.
It’s almost too hard to draw with that sort of distraction.
