Husb and I were out and about today, doing some shopping for art supplies at The Range and we stopped for a cuppa. I spotted this woman across the cafe, absorbed in reading and thought I’d have a quick scribble, en plein air, into my very small sketchbook, about 5 inches by 3.5 using a ballpoint pen. Does anyone call them Biros any more? They were always called Biro pens when I was a kid – I think that’s the name of the inventor.
Cinema & Co, Swansea, throughout March. Exhibition – The Revolting Women Present: The Personal Is Political. A bit of technical stuff today, here’s a monotype I did recently with chine collé from an original sketchbook drawing. I was in London a few years back and wandered over to “Tent City”, the Occupy London protest outside […]
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Yes.
It seems to be more common in the UK and Europe
me
Cool 🙂
biro biro biro , I always make my drawings with birossss
I still call them biros. Let’s keep the word in circulation
I do too, it honours the inventor
Aha! Biro! I had to look it up the first time I saw that word. On this side of the pond we just call them “ballpoint pens”. “Bic” would probably be the equivalent here 🙂 Amazing what a skillful artist can do with a simple tool. Happy New Year, Rosie! Still enjoying your blog here in Boise!
Thank you Mary, so lovely to hear from you. I’d love to see Boise in Winter, it was a tad too warm for me by the end of my visit before.