Macro Mondays : "Minimalism Vibrant"

I’ve always been rather attracted to this Papermate propelling pencil because of its transparent barrel and the details of the spiral mechanism for extruding the graphite. Oh, and the colour… So I could hardly resist when the spiral topic came around again for Macro Mondays.

A bit of a rush job though - one take and then a patch-up in the processing. Had I had more time I think I would have used a tripod and focus stacking (or a different lens). Ah well…

This is vaguely what I intended, or at least an inch and half of it anyway. The full pencil is more interesting :)

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)

For Looking close... on Friday! theme, "Eraser". I have no idea how long I've had this or where I got it from.🤔

Mechanical Pencil.

(kitchen art)

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Hello Frog 🐸 Squad!

R O Y C E | D E S S

I did a water color paintings today of my Oc Kenya Dess! I used some things to make it and here is the list 👌

•Mixed Media -Canson-XL paper

•Prismacolor and Yoobi pencils

•Prismacolor Premeir brown fineliner

•Gellyroll 08 white

•Papermate -Clearpoint 0.7mm Pink Mechanical pencil

* Winsor & Newton Water color set

* And some good old water!

This is kind of a “redraw” kinda. You can sort of see the other Kenya picture laying around.

I might make a wiki for her so we’ll see! 😊 👍

-Caaji

#FeatureTraditional #FWIL #Caaji

Time taken: I should time myself 🌝

(I'll tag everyone later, or you can tag yourself!)

I go through so many notebooks with all the writing and drawing and other forms of scribbling I'm constantly doing.

Barnes & Noble was having a sale on notebooks today - I'm probably the only person in the Seattle Metropolitan Area who got so ridiculously excited about this.

Also, I bought some more Papermate Geforce pens.

I pretty much refuse to write with any other kind.

"I thought I'd look all cool with my red lipstick and pale skin but I didn't"

Left to right

- Mighty Wallet Airmail

- Leatherman Wave

- Metropass!

- 8GB Eye-Fi Pro

- 2GB USB stick

- Ricoh GR Digital III, best compact for my shooting style, ever

- Rhodia 5x5 squared pad

- Papermate PhD pencil

- Pilot V5 pen (fave)

- Samsung Galaxy II S X

- Gen 1 iPad

- Prismacolor pens for diagrams

I've decided that I love macro photography above all other kinds... I like how tiny things that are usually overlooked can be beautiful. I found this eraser, and I liked looking at the writing on it (don't ask me why, I'm a strange person) so I decided it could be the subject of my first attempt ever at a macro.

I have an issue! My camera (a Nikon Coolpix P60) only lets me change the aperture from F3.6 to F8.5. I'd really love to be able to mess around with depth of field. Does anyone know how I could do that with my current camera, or an affordable new one (with better macro capabilities, of course) that I could get if I sell the one that I have? My Nikon is worth about $200. Thanks a lot!

I found Carole Ohl's "Puf" and really just started practising. It's amazing when you start how you get to the final tangle. Great fun.

Anyway, I had another Mooka moment and then went on to Cindy Angiel's "Phuds" and Sanibelle. As usual I then couldn't stop! :@)

Thanks also to Molossus for the fill for Fohbraid.

A5 rough finish white card

Mostly black Papermate Ink.5

Black Zig Millenium 0.2mm - for fine detail

4B pencil

For FlickrFriday's "Fast" and Macro Mondays' "Eraser" challenges.

I love colors!

Yesterday I went to Office Max ... colours are my debility ... these are new!! :)

Drawn and erased with Papermate Sharpwriter #2 mechanical pencil.

Walthamstow, East London, UK

Today's prompt was for A Cloudy Sky. We have our fair share of cloudy skies in Scotland, but thankfully for the past week it's all been blue skies and fluffy clouds. However, the weather folk are telling us to be prepared for wet weather and strong winds from Wednesday. If it comes, I'll console myself with the knowledge that the garden will love the rain.

Papermate 1.4mm HB pencil

W&N watercolours

Flying Tiger A4 300gsm watercolour paper

#EDiM

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Macro Mondays - The Office

This image left me with a feeling of motion blur, almost like engines on the wing of a plane. Or my imagination is just running wild :)

Happy Macro Monday to All!

During a conference call I had doodled!

Classic red Swingline stapler on the counter at Costco. Milton from Office Space would love to have this!

This started with "Inapod" and just took off from there really. I realised it was starting to look like a child's rattle or maybe a tambourine...(?) Anyhoo, it made me add the ribbons and Punzel and Fohbraid trails. :@)

A5 Bristol board

005 (0.2mm) Zig Millennium pen - black

Papermate Ink.5 - black

7x7in lokta paper, Microns 005 and 05, Papermate 300 gold pen. From the centre: Maryhill, Rimala, Paradox, Rain-Arukas tango.

Moi aussi j'veux écrire...

Ignore that nasty ass hand...

I was going to draw myself XD but I hated it. So I made it a gore mess

Also sorry about all the gore and dark stuff?? I can’t help it oooof

I used a grading pencil, 08 micron, pack of papermate pens and a gellyroll for this, /just in case some how you were wondering/

15" x 9" (38 x 23 cm)

Pencils: Papermate non-stop HB, Derwent Rexel Office HB, Derwent Graphic HB & 2H, Wilkinson 3H, on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper.

Oh, and a few hours drawing time :)

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This is my Pocket Filofax which I carry with me all the time. Diary, notebook, commonplace book, cash accounts … and lots more.

This slim Papermate ballpoint pen fits nicely in the rings, held there firmly by its clip. The photo was taken by me at Shere, near Guildford, of my wife Valerie; sadly she died in 2003.

This photograph, which comes to you by courtesy of the letter C, is my third picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2020 group.

regulate papermates

My notebook is a window through which one catches glimpses of my world.

Is this a paralogical metaphor linked to a dead metaphor?

The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the Metaphor and Analogy group today.

Stuck for an idea for your daily 365 shot? Join the hereios of the We're Here! group for inspiration.

I keep this list in my notebook to remind me of what to pack when I go away, it continues over the page … but I don't necessarily take all of these things, it depends where I'm going and for how long.

Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Travel today.

Stuck for an idea for your daily 365 photo? Join the Our Daily Challenge group for inspiration.

pen on paper

I'm a sucker for buying pens in shiny packages that I don't really need, and these Flairs called out to me.

Paper Mate pens & pencils from the 1970s

Jamie Anne Spiess

mju II + kodak 400tmax

best seen here:

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The new year and a new calendar to write up. This hangs on the wall in my kitchen - sometimes I remember to look at it 😳

She danced at the opening of an exhibition. We were late and stumbled on the scene. Indian flute music filled the air, a small crowd watched in silence. It took me a while to understand the idea, but she was wearing a huge paper skirt that asked for slow motion and careful gestures.

Later I would learn that the paper skirt was made by her mother. It was adorned with handwritten letters and drawings from the seventies when the mother was young. Paper was the big theme of this exhibition. Thin or thick, fragile or sturdy, but always handmade and artistically manipulated paper.

I followed the paper trail and entered a modernistic iron building. The space filled me with envy: it would be a perfect studio. Why hadn’t I realized such a place? Admiring the soft and almost tangible light, slowly spinning around I suddenly saw her again. No longer a dancer, but grounded like a baby sitter, pressing two rabbits to her breast. How could I have overlooked her?

“My name is Salomé,” she answered, which put me on a biblical path full of blood, which I just as abruptly left. Yes, this Salomé was a dancer too, but how dark could her motives be?

“How about the rabbits?” I asked. She told me how a friend had steered her into action. A longing from the past, instantly fulfilled by internet. “So easy,” she said, stroking them incessantly. “But they are still confused.”

I looked at moist eyes, the velvet nervousness of rabbits. And she told me more about her damaged spine. The dream of dancing and the accident. The long recovery. And somehow it fitted. The slow dance, the letters from the past, the new born rabbits. From mother to daughter and who knows what's beyond.

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This is #28 in my 100 strangers assignment. Check out the 100 strangers website to see more pictures and people working on the same assignment.