Here's a fun distraction for the day: A whole bunch of resources gathered online from the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota, showing how color separation used to be done for children's picture books before everything was done digitally.
If you don't know anything about how printing works, the links on the page explain the background needed, too. And some of the linked material includes well-known people in the children's book world explaining the various methods used in their books.
I just discovered this page because I was cleaning up some piles of mail that had accumulated and I came across my unopened Kerlan newsletter from spring. (There was a lot going on back then.)
I've previously shared some color-separation materials by Ellen Raskin that are part of the Kerlan Collection, so I'm happy to have these links to put that earlier post in context for anyone who isn't familiar with the techniques.
This is the negative...
...used to create the yellow printing plate for this:
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