Rosie Scribblah

Graffiti Tunnel

I did some sketching en plein air at the graffiti tunnel off Swansea’s High Street. I used a brown paper sketchbook with compressed charcoal, chalk and soft pastels. I’m not happy with the sketch, it’s clumsy and tentative. I think I need to go back with some black paper to draw on.

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST – KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

Kollwitz in the UK – brilliant. In Birmingham through to November at The Ikon Gallery … Source: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST – KÄTHE KOLLWITZ

Why bother Protesting?

Some great documentary drawing on the streets from Patricia McKenna-Jones Source: Why bother Protesting?

Digital Playing

I did this drawing some time ago and I want to do some digital work with it so I photographed and uploaded it to my Samsung tablet and started having a play, using a basic pen app to start colouring in. It’s weird working over an existing drawing, it somehow doesn’t feel like it’s myContinue reading “Digital Playing”

Greetings Hoomins

Greetings Hoomins. Sparta Puss here. The hairless apes have put their pooters down for a few minutes and I have been browsing the Internet. I have made friends with a cat on Twitter. His name is Terry Barlow ( @terry_barlow ) and he has to put up with living in a house with a baldapeContinue reading “Greetings Hoomins”

Doodle…..

Today I doodled. Just that, on a piece of paper with an ordinary pencil. Just having a play.

Cosmic Playtime

I visited a friend yesterday and took a digital photo of the fishpond with my shadow. Then I downloaded it into my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 using the free Markers app and had a bit of a play. It looks like a fishy cosmos floating around in my outline.

Gertrud Arndt: Photo Pioneer of Female ‘Self-Disguise’

http://wp.me/p3x4lI-1Jw  The Bauhaus. Not so radical when it came to women students. Interesting read, I hadn’t heard of this artist before.

Bat Walk

Husb and I spent a happy hour or so up at the lovely Rosehill Quarry this evening with a load of other people on a ‘bat walk’ headed up by Swansea University’s Dr. Dan Foreman. I had a scribble of course, with a 6B graphite stick into my ‘cat’ notebook. I focused on making marksContinue reading “Bat Walk”

Nasty Women

I have entered this little collage into a group show in London called ‘Nasty Women UK‘. I am hugely inspired by Käthe Kollwitz, the German feminist, socialist, anti-war artist who died in 1945, after a lifetime of using her art as political protest, being banned by both the First Reich and the Third Reich, aContinue reading “Nasty Women”