What we see isn't always what we get

[Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn]

What with Japan in crisis and our local, far less worrisome circumstances (range fires/wildfires, et al) to the forefront of everyone's thinking, it may be hard to relax and just make art.

This would include the making of art by digital means, with a final printability factor in mind. Nothing is the same in print as on screen when one is dealing with color's variability. We've learned recently, via trial and error, just how true this can be. Our best things at the group's blog may as well never have been created, for they don't print with any integrity. Ditto my most recent stab at designing post card art and artistamps for use in IUOMA. Colors just don't match. It can make it very frustrating to try and keep ahead of the demand for more art from the well meaning who've already gifted us. I'm not complaining, nor making excuses for tardiness. These are just the plain facts. 

It might be useful to set up one corner of our Studio's central location for the purpose of making series of prints by hand--forget the machine! (oh, what I wouldn't give for a fine hand press!). Guess it's time to admit we're licked where reproducing postcard art via the computer is concerned.

I and one colleague recently have been having quite a time of it in this area, she from a business standpoint, and I from the standpoint of IUOMA fun. In her researches, more was found out than may be comforting for some to learn.

Why?

Because even the pros are struggling over this very issue! One may possess every tool currently available that is of the superior order (including Pantone's color chart), but that won't necessarily get one that pleasing result every time of having a true print-off that is sufficiently close in tone, hue, and so on to one's original concept, even when professional print machinery is utilized by people in the know. 

It would seem manual means lend a certain element of control where color is concerned. Very curious.

Meanwhile, our Studio's blog makeover can be on hold for some while owing to quirks within the workings of Blogger. Don't even get me started on this one!!! It's enough to make one pull one's own hair out! Yikes!

Such tiny objectionable matters beside what Japan must face.....

 

Anyhow, I'll be up and around again, that flu bug being pretty well ousted, so there will be one mailing sent out this afternoon--that is, of any ready items with knowable postage amounts. About out of stamps here as well! Time to stock up!!! Don't guess the postal service would take too kindly to having faux postage or antique foreign stamps used in place of their regulation affixable philatelic rectangles.

 

As for our Mail Call day, that is now scheduled for Thursday this week. Only 2 days away!!!! :)

 

So there you have it, in a nutshell.

Rose