After Hastings, me and M took a train to Manchester and took a good look at the city for a few days. We loved it! Manchester is such a beautiful and interesting city, and the mix of old and new everywhere really blew us away.
When M headed home, I stayed on for the Urban sketchers symposium. On the 25th, I hooked up with old sketching friends and headed out drawing. Among other things, we stopped by at John Rylands library, which was to be both mine and Liz Steel´s workshop location for the symposium. Great to get a first look at this place. Such a crazy building (in a good way!) – beautiful, and so intricate, but much younger than you´d think from looking at it, and so unlike everything else built during the same period (around 1900).
Top drawing: 17 x 16 cm, bottom: 19,5 x 16 cm, fude nib fountain pen with De Atramentis document ink, and watercolours, in Stillman & Birn A4 alpha series sketchbook.