Paw Prints

I’ve had a bit of challenge getting the color right on our HP. I’m hoping this article has good hints, but i think the real issue is making sure i run the cleaning and calibration routines before hand. We use the color printer so rarely….

I experimented with hand coloring photos for an ATC call for altered photographs. I tried my own ideas, which didn’t work so well. The best result was using ink which turned a sky to a midnight blue. Well, i figured out a save on that. After a little reading it seemed oil pastels would do the trick. I may need to experiment more, try something like a matte fixative on the image before using the oil pastels. I’m not hopeful. I then looked at this helpful article from Michael’s and promptly drove off to our local store. The kit was over $35, and, to be honest, i have photoshop and tons of other supplies. I’d rather spend $35 on photo paper. The kit also didn’t come with the primer for glossy paper, and there wasn’t any near at hand.

I bought the photo coloring markers that were near, instead.

Circular Things mail art project
Circle, hole, point, poem, dot, map, mandala, short letter you can call it as you wish.

The project, started in 1992 and entitled as … circular things, was now reactivated as a daily and non-stop edition in holeart.blogspot.com.

To participate just send a single 10cm diameter paper circle work by normal mail (please do not send by e-mail because of technical problems).

send to: César Figueiredo / apartado 4134 / P-4001-001 Porto / Portugal

I’ve scanned in the six postcards we bought at the antique store in Morro Bay. Two files: 051120-a-Postcards.jpg and 051120-b-Postcards.jpg .

I was able to quickly select one, select the color of the background, “select similar”, delete [to clear the yellowed background of the card], and the switch to grayscale. Flip horizontal & use the photo package selection, and, viola, a set of samples to transfer with the colorless blender. I did just that to the envelope I’m exchanging back and forth with L. I also used the grey ink i bought in Half Moon Bay a couple weeks ago. Kinda nice.

I used the eyelets to attach a postcard to card stock as the cover page for the scrapbook section on our trip to Morro Bay.

It’s fun to use the toys!

Long’s Drugs did NOT have the photos ready when expected. The do develop black and white film, though.

Altered photos — ATC2005.02 3-5 altered ATC, due 2005-12-31, SASE (prepared)

In other book keeping news, i discovered that i mis-numbered the last postcard i sent out (to Deni_zen with the transfer sample). It should have been FM2005.18 not FM2005.16 as i marked it. I don’t know why i care, but i do.

FM2005.16 is the Dad post card & FM2005.17.01 was the first in a series of random cork stamp assemblages.