Mastodawn

Practicing drawing feet.

Wall and entrance Doors to the garden of the Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi in Venice seen from Fondamenta Zattere Ai Gesuati.

#drawing #pen & #ink on paper

Alain Mauri 19h ago

I got this nice little gem from my local shop. It’s an #Olympus #Pen original. Produced between 1959 and 1963 and from the serial number mine should be anywhere between 1962 and 1963.
It’s a wonderful fully manual, mechanical camera and a nice little design gem.
For sure my first roll will be absolute crap, but it’s is part of the fun, isn’t it?
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Pen
#HalfFrame #ShootFilmStayBroke

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Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱1d ago

@AmenZwa same here, except that fountain pens were allowed already in the 1st year. My handwriting with most anything but a fountain pen gets impossible to read even for me after a few sentences, so texts are written with a #fountain #pen Lately it's a basic Japanese Pilot, and a bit less basic (and ready to fly, it's a pen which is closed hermetically, and so changes in air pressure don't cause leaks) Taiwanese TWSBI Vac 700.

amen zwa, esq.1d ago

Back in the 1970s Burma, students were taught (forced to learn) typing, shorthand, and penmanship. Upon being promoted from lower school to fifth grade, we were finally permitted to switch from pencil to fountain pen. No one in Burma used ballpoint pens, in those days. Later in engineering school, we were taught to use technical pens and calligraphy pens, which were dip-ink types.

The first #fountain #pen I learned to use in middle school was my grand father's Parker 51. It was about as basic as a fountain pen could be.

Through the decades, I have used other fountain pens from Parker, Cross, Waterman, and Pelikan. But my daily-use fountain pen is still my trusty old Parker 51, which is several years older than FORTRAN.

Ah yes, I still #write meeting notes, technical concepts, algorithm designs, etc., on paper (Japanese made) with fountain pen (Parker 51).

And no, I do not use ballpoint pens, rollerball pens, felt-tip pens, and other types of ink pens.

puigreixach 2d ago

Old Fisherman
#drawing
#ink & #pen on watercolor paper

Tiff 3d ago

Following the mushroom demo for Drawabox's third lesson. Decided to colour it in as well! Anyone here like mushrooms?

#mastoart #fediart #mastoartist #art #traditionalart #mushroom #plants #nature #pen #drawabox #drawing @drawing #mushroommonday #mushrooms #fungi #tiffart

Khyrie 5d ago

New fountain pen arrived today!
I've set it up, and am excited to try writing something substantial with it.

#pen #fountainPen

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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻6d ago

“In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country’s #schools would be going back to #basics, emphasizing skills such as #reading and #writing, particularly in early grades.

After mostly being sidelined, physical #books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to #write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a #pencil or #pen, on sheets of #paper.”

…

“digital technology isn’t being removed from schools altogether. Rather, digital aids “should only be introduced in teaching at an age when they encourage, rather than hinder, pupils’ learning.” Achieving digital #competence remains an important objective,”

#Learning / #Sweden / #EvidenceBased / #Digital / #Technology / #DigitalTecnology / #analog / #analogue <https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/>