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Professor Earnshore yawned loudly - perhaps a little too loudly for what was considered to be polite in upper-class Holland Park by his genteel elderly spinster neighbours. It had been a hard day lecturing about art at the Slade School, but then again, trying to engage his students in the finer points of still life painting was never easy, when all they wanted these days was to capture the banal modernity of life in the naïve style of L.S. Lowry, whose grim and drab works were all in vogue.
"Whatever happened to subtlety? Whatever happened to colour? Whatever happened to beauty?" he quietly asked himself as he picked himself up from his lone set place at the dining table his mother had used to entertain dinner parties of twenty a half a century ago.
Professor Earnshore stretched his arms over his head as he walked into his study, leaving Mrs. Webberley, his daily woman who also cooked his dinner, to clean up the dining room and wash his dirty dishes in the scullery before heading home to feed her own family in Poplar. Professor Earnshore loved his study. It was his escape from the onslaught of the mid-century world, with all its utilitarian design and minimalist décor. Here in the overstuffed and fusty Victorian interior that smelt comfortingly of dust, pipe smoke and wood fires, amidst the tomes that had belonged to his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather before him, he could settle into his reminisces of better times. He looked with affection on the volumes he had chosen for tonight set out on the oval walnut table with the barley twist legs: all with red leather covers, gilded lettering and embossed tooling. One was a good old fashioned "Boys Own Adventure" set on a tropical Caribbean island, another a volume of flowery Victorian poetry written by an English poetess who published her work under the pseudonym of a man's name, and the third, a book on his favourite topic - shopping for treasures in junk shops, a pastime he rather enjoyed now that everyone was discarding their Victorian and Edwardian heirlooms to replace them with garish Festival Fifties furniture made from chrome and plastic.
Removing his feet from his carpet slippers, he wigged his sock clad toes before the crackling fire in the grate as he rested them on a low, round stool. He unfastened his stiff collar and removed it before slipping his silver and enamelled cufflinks from his cuffs and rolling up his sleeves to his elbows. Placing the cufflinks on the edge of the book of poetry, Professor Earnshore donned his thick lensed glasses and sighed with contentment as he settled in for the evening.
"Which one first?" he pondered. "Looking in Junkshops, I think!" he settled on with a nod.
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The theme for "Smile on Saturday" for the 16th of May is "capture the books". This theme is one that is very close to my heart, as I love reading and collecting books. I have a very large library of antiquarian books I can choose from. For this photograph, I withdrew several old volumes of red leather to use, the colour emulating the bold stripe in the cufflinks I have included in this shot. The top volume is a book called "Coral Island", published in 1903, which has wonderful Art Nouveau designs on the covers and spine, with equally stylised lettering. I acquired it from a trip to Butler's Antiques in Olinda in the Dandenongs. The bottom volume is a book I bought from the Inglewood Emporium in provincial Victoria, which is from the 1870s and is beautifully decorated. The volume in-between I bought from Through the Looking Glass books on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, an inner suburb of Melbourne, and was a volume I had completely forgotten I even had! The title "Looking in Junk Shops" is something I do a great deal of, although I do not always find the high quality antiques this book's author described finding in its pages. I have also included a pair of antique Victorian spectacles in the shot.
I have stripped out some of the colour and given the edge of the shot a vintage look, to add to the vintage Victorian feel of Professor Earnshore's study.
I hope you like my little storytelling shot for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
My collection of leather shots for the Leather Photo Challenge in Macro Mondays
This is from a set of eight books (my favorite set of books in the early 50s).
It is copyright 1946 and is tooled leather. Book Trails for Baby Feet 1928 Antique Children's Storybook Art Deco Burgundy/Red Leather Collector's Volume 1.
What is tooled leather?
Tooling leather is any type of leather that can be used for tooling, generally it is vegetable tanned leather. The vegetable tanning process makes the leather softer and easier to work with. And since it is often pale brown or white after the tanning, the leather can be dyed to the desired color.
Focus stack (5 images) shot with single off-camera strobe (Godox AD200 Pro/Godox XPro II L trigger), round head, modified with clear diffuser and grid, camera right 45 degrees, 60 degrees above subject.
Shot for Looking Close on. Friday, theme - heart on black background
Box size 4 x 4 x 1.75 in
Part of my Life and Times of a Red Sofa Series See more at:
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NB: One lone sofa had moved to a spot under a dimly lit stairwell where the walls were a tad grubby ;-( a complete contrast to the bright red sofas in reception. I could have made it brighter but then it wouldn't have shown the real sofa in situ.
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Some women felt comfortable in the bright, glaring white light of the spot light. But not her. For her.....a low, sexy, red light was what she wanted. A light that blended with the darkness and hinted at things to come....of pleasures and intrigues as yet untold. Yes...when the red light came on....her true self came out to play.
Produced between 1973 and 1980, when men were men and photographers had biceps of steel to lug around a beast of a camera like this. The Rapid Omega is a medium format 6x7 rangefinder. It features a very sharp 80mm f/3.5 leaf-shutter lens, a unique rapid film advance mechanism, and not one, not two, but three cold shoes. I re-skinned mine to freshen it up and show it a little love.
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“It must be admitted that a very large fraction of our time was spent in dressing and undressing. We were forever changing our clothes, a custom that necessitated travelling with a mountain of luggage.” – Lady Cynthia Asquith (English writer and socialite).
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 27th of November is “bags and suitcases”. Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I love and collect 1:12 size miniatures which I photograph in realistic scenes. The artifice of recreating in minute detail items in 1:12 scale always amazes me, and it’s amazing how the eye can be fooled. In this case, pardon the pun, I have a range of luggage, set in a scene outside an English country railway station in the 1920s, judging by the stylised L.N.E.R. advertisement in the background. The pieces of luggage include suitcases, a portmanteau, a travel de necessaire, a gladstone bag, two hat boxes a purse and a beaded handbag. All pieces except the beaded bag are made of leather, and all are artisan miniatures made, and in some cases aged, by hand.
The blue travel de necessaire (small travelling case) and its matching hatbox on which the straw hat decorated with ribbon, flowers and feathers is sitting are 1:12 artisan miniatures and made of blue kid leather which is so soft to the touch, and small metal handles, clasps and ornamentation. They have been purposely worn around their edges to give them age. The brown leather hatbox at the back against which the brown and gold umbrella is leaning is also a 1:12 artisan miniature and unlike the blue pieces, it is made to open and be fully functional and has a cream satin lining. All three pieces come from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in England.
The gladstone bag in the foreground, the white and brown leather portmanteau and the large brown suitcase in the background are also made of deliberately aged leather with metal buckles and clips. The red handbag on top of the blue hat box is also a hand-made artisan piece of soft red kid leather, with a gold chain strap. All these pieces I acquired from The Dolls’ House Shop in the United Kingdom.
The beaded handbag is also a 1:12 artisan miniature. Hand crocheted, it is interwoven with antique blue glass beads that are two millimetres in diameter. The beads of the handle are three millimetres in length. It came from an online specialist store on E-Bay.
The taupe knitting (essential for a long railway journey) on the two long pins that serve as knitting needles is properly knitted and cast on. It was hand made by Mrs. Denton of Muffin Lodge in the United Kingdom.
The two furled 1920s umbrellas with the luggage are all 1:12 artisan pieces made of silk, with handles made from painted wood. There is also a gilt walking stick featuring a deer’s head for a handle, also a hand made artisan piece. They come from specialist artisan miniature makers in England.
The straw hat decorated with ribbon, faux silk flowers and white feathers was made by an unknown artisan and acquired from Doreen Jeffries’ Small Wonders Miniatures in England. The white straw Panama, also hand made, was acquired from a seller on E-Bay selling off part of their miniatures collection. 1:12 size miniature hats made to such exacting standards of quality and realism are often far more expensive than real hats are. When you think that it would sit comfortably on the tip of your index finger, yet it could cost in excess of $150.00 or £100.00, it is an extravagance. American artists seem to have the monopoly on this skill and some of the hats that I have seen or acquired over the years are remarkable.
British miniature artisan Ken Blythe was famous in miniature collectors’ circles mostly for the miniature books that he made: all being authentically replicated 1:12 scale miniatures of real volumes. I have quite a large representation of Ken Blythe’s work in my collection. However, he did not make books exclusively. He also made other small pieces like the two 1920s railway travel posters pinned to the wall in the background. The one on the left advertises travelling to the east coast via L.N.E.R., whilst the one on the right advertises the Flying Scotsman express train. To create something so authentic to the original in such detail and so clearly, really does make these miniature artisan pieces. Ken Blythe’s work is highly sought after by miniaturists around the world today and command high prices at auction for such tiny pieces, particularly now that he is no longer alive. I was fortunate enough to acquire pieces from Ken Blythe prior to his death about four years ago and through his estate courtesy of the generosity of his daughter and son-in-law. His legacy will live on with me and in my photography which I hope will please his daughter.
Going back to drawing
Maestro Delphine Eraclea is the antagonist on the classic anime series, Last Exile. The drawing is the younger version of her. The falling rose petals meant war against the unification between the two opposing sides in the series. Drawn using PS CC and Cintiq 24HD.
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Time lapse video found here: youtu.be/G_7QtTnoGXQ
Just appeasing this beautiful goddess, dang it. 😂 On a serious note, having realized that Lisa's drawing project will be quite difficult, I decided to do two test drawings first, this one and one for Rose'(yay), to test ideas and once done, I'll tackle Lisa's drawing. This drawing still uses grayscale to colour method and just to reiterate, you need to have a near perfect or perfect grayscale or black and white drawing before colouring, for anyone out there attempting this technique. Enjoy and take care! Drawn using ps cc, cintiq 24hd. Drawing timelapse video tutorial link found here: youtu.be/Oo4ofKawQLI
"Forgotten Red Cowboy Boots" by Patti Deters. A row of forgotten weathered boots, each with its own story, rests quietly abandoned on a dusty shelf — scuffed leather, faded stitching, and handwritten tags marking time gone by. From sturdy work boots to bold red cowboy boots, these relics of the past carry the marks of long days and dusty trails. Cowboy boots first appeared in the 1800s, designed to protect riders’ legs and feet while in the saddle. Their distinct heels helped keep stirrups secure, and pointed toes made sliding into the saddle easier. Perhaps these boots danced at honky-tonks, crossed state lines, or saw the sunrise over a corral fence. Their creases and dust are the tales of a well-lived life, each tag a ticket to a moment in history. In this quiet lineup, time stands still, holding the memory of those who walked before us. This vintage vignette was seen at Gold King Mine and Ghost Town in Jerome, Arizona, USA. Thank you for viewing this picture. You can purchase or just enjoy looking at more images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/forgotten-red-cowboy-boo....