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Happy "Looking close... on Friday!" with "buttons"
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One more button in the tin to paint! I saved a super-complicated crocheted button to paint last.
The big black button near the top left took many layers of glazing various tints and tones of colour over a base layer where I used salt to achieve the mottled effect.
I tried and tried to spin a button like a coin but could never get a good focus with my macro lens. Finally, I gave up and shot this.
Fly Agaric Buttons coming up in Bothell, Washington.
Camera: Rolleiflex Automat K4B MX
Lens: Schneider-Kreuznach-Xenar 75mm f3.5 with Rondo Close-up attachment II.
Film: Ilford Pan-F 50+
Developer: Beerenol (Rainier Beer)
IPad and watercolour from photo.
Recent Portraits by Martin Beek from Blurb.com
A beautifully designed and illustrated book with a foreword by Julia Kay, introduction, sections covering different media, working studies and sketches, previously unseen drawings, photographs and an index of subjects.
Copyright © 2012 Martin Beek
Foreword copyright © 2012 Julia Kay
ISBN 978-0-9571417-0-4 hardback
ISBN 978-0-9571417-1-1 paperback
‘Each individual fills the page with their unique presence, and seems to glow from within.’
Julia Kay
I love using vintage buttons in my paper craft, but I'm thinking I might like to try making some jewellery...
Macro Mondays - Button(s)
My kids may have grown up and left home long ago, but I still have heaps of kiddie style buttons in my sewing box. I used to buy buttons that appealed to me, whether or not I had an actual use for them at the time, and so it is that many of these buttons have never adorned a garment. Today some of them get their moment in the sun.
These Bachelor Buttons of purple also have a small visitor,
a skipper butterfly, sipping their sweet nectar... luv the
way the setting sun made them glow!!! Wishing everyone
a blessed weekend with hugs from Texas!!!
At a stall in Salamanca Market, Hobart, Tasmania.
Interesting trivia re buttons. I found this excerpt while doing some research on buttons after watching the movie ‘The curious case of Benjamin Button’ :-
“Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity.”
― Bill Bryson