The Team at Might Fly Studio
My husband at our first market!
A big part of Might Fly’s success is from the support of my #1 salesman and package expert, my husband Ben. By day he is a mild-mannered teacher, but by other times of the day he is the art guy. Born in Alaska in a town with the population the size of my high school and raised in Colorado, he teaches logic, philosophy and ethics at the college level. Beyond being the guy who sets up and mans the booth at the markets, he also packages my prints and takes care of the books and business side of Might Fly. He also volunteers and serves on the Board of Directors for Salem Saturday Market and was a force to bring Shakespeare to Salem. Without his pushing to get me out in public, there would be no Might Fly!
Bill with Be Careful What You Fish For!
Creating and making my art available would not be possible without the team that works behind and in front of the scenes to make it happen, and the key member of my team is Bill at Salem Blue. Bill was born and raised in Oregon and spent his entire life in the Willamette valley. Like me, Bill is a nerd with a passion for fantasy worlds and imagination. He loves art and cares about people in general, he does what he can to make the images he reproduces the highest quality possible.
Making archival reproductions is an art form in itself, and Bill helps realize the vision of my work in the giclee prints that I sell on my website, at the markets, and events. See, to make a reproduction of a piece from a scan or a photograph is not as simple as click, wham, bam, and thank you ma’am! Scanners and cameras see the world differently from the human eye and it is an intense process to bring an image from a scan to a reproduced image with vibrant and balanced colors. No matter what, the original can never be perfectly reproduced, so the process requires some finesse. I personally focus on making a reproduction the best version of itself rather than focusing on how close to the original it can be. Sacrifices always have to be made in the reproduction process and you need to be flexible in seeing the potential of a scan. The process of converting an image from a scan to a proof-ready image requires balancing an image to adjust light curves, color tones, white and black points, and basic gamma as well as at least 7 steps of trial and error adjustments, and it is thanks to Bill and the team at Salem Blue that my images retain high quality control.
Making archival reproductions is an art form in itself, and Bill helps realize the vision of my work in the giclee prints that I sell on my website, at the markets, and events. See, to make a reproduction of a piece from a scan or a photograph is not as simple as click, wham, bam, and thank you ma’am! Scanners and cameras see the world differently from the human eye and it is an intense process to bring an image from a scan to a reproduced image with vibrant and balanced colors. No matter what, the original can never be perfectly reproduced, so the process requires some finesse. I personally focus on making a reproduction the best version of itself rather than focusing on how close to the original it can be. Sacrifices always have to be made in the reproduction process and you need to be flexible in seeing the potential of a scan. The process of converting an image from a scan to a proof-ready image requires balancing an image to adjust light curves, color tones, white and black points, and basic gamma as well as at least 7 steps of trial and error adjustments, and it is thanks to Bill and the team at Salem Blue that my images retain high quality control.
Baby Prints!
I print all my art on either the archival paper for Salem Blue or on canvas for larger or custom prints. The archival paper Salem Blue uses for the prints is not bright white because it is balanced to be ph neutral (if you add whiteners to a paper it reduces its stability and is not archival), so the art printed on the paper must compensate with custom color profiles that allow high quality and long-lasting images to be laid down on them. The canvas is heavy weight, single-weave matte made to handle pigment inks. The awesome Cannon printer that Salem Blue uses has 12 different inks to capture the range and vibrancy of colors in my artwork with giclee inks that have a 37-50 year lifespan.