Last Saturday I went into Abergavenny, which is a lovely little market down that lies at the gate of the Brecon Beacons. It also has a really lovely traditional art shop, that looks more like an apothecary and a market that sells the nicest pies, sadly I ate the pie too quickly to take a picture of it. I had literally no interest in going into any of the major high street shops. I went on a spur of the moment type of thing after the hairdressers, just because it was a nice thing to do to waste an afternoon, plus I really wanted 'Rubber Soul' on vinyl. The shop was closed, which made me quite sad although I found a lot of lovely things to take the sting away :P
We had snow with us, as you can see and I wasn't dressed for it at all. It was so cold. I went into the art shop to buy a new sketch book and ended up coming out with two new lino inks, a new pencil, refills for my pencil, a paintbrush, a new nib, a sketch book and a few pieces of lino. I always get carried away there, it's awful. I did have piece of cake with the owner and a cup of tea, which was nice.
After that, I ventured to an really quaint second hand books shop, whilst on the hunt for anything by Oscar Wilde that contained 'The Selfish Giant'. I'm attempting to illustrate it and much preferred referencing it from a book as appose to staring at my Ipad for long periods of time, it's more inspiring plus I'm just difficult. The really special thing about this shop is, unlike Waterstones, it has incredibly old, preciously bound books that have had different lives before ending up on the shelves of this bookshop, having the likes of me looking through them all.
It so happened that they did have an Oscar Wilde book and I bought it. I really wanted to buy The Tales of Asop and a Hans Christian Andersen book too but I decided that I treat myself to those another day. I've been buying to many books recently and until I finish them all I refuse to buy anymore. I'm going to read 'The Age of Innocence' soon after I finish 'Lolita'.
I'll post the beginnings of my new sketch book soon too.
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