Day 54

These are sample prints that I have worked on for the American History Museum which is adding a new gallery for The First Ladies Exhibition. This gallery will include watercolor sketches of 14 gowns. The original portraits are in our museum but which can not be used for display so these are photographs that were taken years ago with bad lighting and stuff. My job was to try to make the background color for each very similar and uniform because they all had slightly different background colors. The main problem was that when these photos were taken it caused a shadow around the edges of each photographed so I had to try eliminate the dark edges the best I could. It's possible to eliminate it and make it all one color but we have no time to be doing all that. Once this is done, they will be printed on textured paper, laminated and framed and put on the wall for display.

This exhibition will go on display March 10, 2010 along with Michelle Obama's inaugural gown. One of these days she will stop by and donate her dress to Smithsonian to be put on display.