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More experiments with my scanner and printer; something I’d love to do if I was ever prosperous and secure enough to be in a position to sell my work (e.g. have weekends off even every now and again, and a place larger than a broom closet) is the ability to make prints on-demand, and the first baby steps thereto feel like getting more comfortable with scanning and printing my work in general on the most basic technology (e.g. the devices I own).

So after finishing Galatea Cyanide (gouache on paper) last week, I decided to have a go at color scanning the same way I’d done that colored pencil drawing the month (?) before. The initial painting featured very little red or orange shading, but the scan darkened the yellows to make it look like there were heavy concentrations of both (so nixing the idea of getting my digital painting images through scanning, then). Thing is, I liked it better that way, and so went back to add the colors myself. Didn’t think this kind of digital tinkering was really up my alley, but I’ll be sure to at least consider it as a possibility in the future!

Hoping to delve today into the depths of the University of Michigan’s Art, Architecture and Engineering Library in the course of a miles-long walk around town (and among other things check out a Patssi Valdez catalog in their collection), something I haven’t properly done in months as I’ve been riding my bike around Detroit a lot. One of the latter rides last week finally took me past the city limits into Oakland County (that modern-day, postage-stamp-sized Holy Roman Empire of American suburbia); en route I was able to get a sketch of the header image, a disused but magnificent fountain at the southern extremity of Palmer Park, lying just short of Eight Mile along Woodward Avenue. Hoping to go further on my next trip (probably next Tuesday, which’ll culminate in my first ever Tigers game).

How’s your work going?