Here’s one I scribbled yesterday when I took my little nephew to the top of the Swansea Tower, Wales’ tallest building. I’m getting a bit better at drawing the cityscape; I’m developing a shorthand of marks that are individual to me so I don’t slip into doing an architectural drawing. I did a short course on the Ruskin style of topographical drawing a few years back and although it was interesting (it was in his house, Brantwood, in the Lake District) and also good discipline, that style of drawing isn’t for me. I had a fair bit of time to sketch – the boy took ages to come to terms with his huge glass of hot chocolate and chocolate brownie. He bounced for hours after.
Ruskin And Chocolate
Posted byRosie ScribblahPosted inArty Stuff, out and aboutTags:art, Brantwood, children, chocolate, drawing, family, Ruskin, sketchbooks, Swansea
Published by Rosie Scribblah
I'm an artist / printmaker / scribbler. I love drawing and all the geeky stuff associated with printmaking, working in a figurative style. I live in Wales with husband and demented cats. And my real name is Rose Davies :D View more posts

Wow…you are quite the ‘sketcher’, and I truly admire that. I never take a sketch book outside, and rarely draw what I see. Doing what you do, put’s the whole ‘art thing’ on a different level. I’d like to be there some day, but am just too damn lazy 🙂
The truth is I’m so anti-social I discovered early on that people don’t expect me to make conversation if I have my nose in a sketchbook 😉
Hot chocolate AND a chocolate brownie????!!!!
Yeah I know, I spoil him. He was wired all day then 🙂