and now for something completely different

[joflasher]

a post that is neither rant nor horses...instead, I give you Work

My project is going well. I demoed it to the board of directors a few weeks ago, it was a huge hit. My department head wants me to submit proposals for 2 IRADs next year based on it. It looks like everything will end on schedule and I haven't had to kick anyone on my team too hard.

We had one small SNAFU where the old project leader forgot to tell me that the final review was scheduled for a May 13th (next thursday), but that's fixed now. Final review is now happening mid-June. If it weren't for the 50+ pages of documentation I have yet to write, work would be wonderful. As is, work is pretty good.

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Re: Question...

[flasher.livejournal.com]

My printing method depends on the size of print I want. For 8x10s or smaller, I do them on my own printer with color fast inks. For anything bigger, I send them out to photoaccess.com. They are kind of expensive but they do very nice work and have an excellent "we messed up, let us fix it" policy. For them, I take my scanned in work and have 6 4x5 color tests printed up. If one of them is acceptablely close to the original colors, then I put in an order for the actual size I want. The 4x5s are fairly inexpensive and, if you do a couple paintings at once, are very reasonable. Eventually I want to get a larger printer but I'm making myself wait until I can buy it solely from art profit. Right now, I'm just about breaking even for the year but I still have to pay my worldcon registration.

I've never actually done an art trade. I would be interested but you'll have to walk me through it :)