Did anyone wonder about that unusual gray background on the October exchange envelopes? It's the floor of the Ash Creek USPS station. I've mentioned Davonte a few time - my postal clerk at the main post office. Last time I was there, I asked for him and they said he'd be at Ash Creek for a couple months. So, when I headed out on errands with my stack of mail, I was going to be right by that station and stopped in. He liked the stack of halloween mail and chose the red cancel for some and the black cancel for others. There is a new hand cancel design that has three very bold black lines. Maybe there's a way to design something fun that utilizes the black bars.
No comment on these two. I only did one more attempt with this font before I ditched it. Hopefully I will toss the exemplar. I know I have other fonts with little pictures that are much better. Maybe there are some letters that are worth saving.
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Real time update on my big project.
I started at 6AM - inserting and securing a sturdy cardboard tube through the skull so it will *stand* on top of the ofrenda. Sounds easy - but it took all morning. My first 3 attempts to decoupage the 2-foot skull were complete disasters. No amount of prepping would resolve the paper cockling - which is the word for the way paper wrinkles up when it gets wet. So I did a test patch, covering the paper with masking tape - and then primed it with regular acrylic primer for painting doors and windows. That worked. It took 4 hours to cover the skull with masking tape.
The nose is crooked but imperfection is our middle name. I had to build that contraption to hold it in a vertical position.
It looks great!
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