{"id":106,"date":"2012-07-26T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:31:32","slug":"the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Philip-Poole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112 \" title=\"Philip-Poole\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Philip-Poole.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Poole\" width=\"400\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Philip-Poole.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Philip-Poole-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philip Poole &#8220;His Nibs&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Firstly I have some follow on news from my previous blog \u2018Pen Pals\u2019. Thanks to my lovely pen pal Alan (whose work features in that blog) I have a picture of Phillip Poole, the man who sold me my mixed box of antique pen nibs. Alongside that I have a little picture drawn for me by my good friend and wonderful illustrator Stu McLellan.<\/p>\n<p>Presently I am reeling a bit from being a living exhibit at Art in Action, one of the biggest and best art festivals around. I look upon demonstrating as being a seriously important part of what I do. It\u2019s certainly a serious factor in selling my work. It\u2019s important to remember that printmaker doesn\u2019t mean much out there in the non-printmaker world. Print tends to be what your computer does if you remember to stick the cables into your laptop (which I often don\u2019t). Print to lots of people means any quantity, any colour and any size. Hand cut, hand pulled limited edition prints still get asked for \u2018a bit bigger and can you do it with a blue background?\u2019 or better still \u2018can you crop out those trees and put that hedge from the other print in because I like that better?\u2019<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Her-Nibs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113\" title=\"Her-Nibs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk:\/studiodiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Her-Nibs.jpg\" alt=\"Her Nibs\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her Nibs &#8211; illustration by Stu Mclellan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s a quiet pleasure in showing people that an original print has its own integrity: it is what it is and has as much validity and presence as any other art form. Anything I can do to convince people that we printers are skilled artists, not button pressers or poor relations of painters has to be a plus. Yes, it does mean I won\u2019t manipulate or resize my work, or indeed reproduce a print in any other way than a greetings card, but that\u2019s the way I like it and that\u2019s the way my customers like it too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Firstly I have some follow on news from my previous blog \u2018Pen Pals\u2019. Thanks to my lovely pen pal Alan (whose work features in that blog) I have a picture of Phillip Poole, the man who sold me my mixed box of antique pen nibs. Alongside that I have a little picture drawn for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/?p=106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Real Thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}