I unleashed 24 prints a few days ago. I got a flurry of orders within the first 24 hours; it then very quickly dropped off to about nuthin’ Pretty much as expected. I’m busy getting the orders ready to ship… my plan is to mail all the orders I currently have on hand tomorrow. However, when I started putting the orders together I quickly found that I was short by quite a few. Simple fix: make more. But the past three or so days out here have been overcast… and here’s a project where the weather plays a direct role in production. Finally the sun came out this afternoon, and I’ve been busy crankin’ ’em out.
To speed the process, I procured a larger sheet of plywood and a larger sheet of plexi… 30X36. This allows two 12X18 sheets to be exposed at a time. It has worked out well. 18X24 sheets of watercolor paper are available, so I can foresee a time when I can do prints twice the size of the current crop. The only thing standing in the way of that is an inability to get transparencies printed off larger than 12X18. Two of the local print shops are supposed to have that capacity “soon,” but not yet. Experiments of putting two 12X18 transparencies side by side to create a single 18X24 have failed, since the seam between them is fairly obvious.
So, if you ordered prints, they should be on the way shortly. If you’d be interested in 18X24 prints – I’m guesstimating $25 each – let me know, and let me know of *what.* If you have issues of APR, now’d be the time to go through ’em and pick and choose.
Anything that would require a setup bigger than the current 30X36 frame (due to edge-clamps, max print size would probably be something like 27X33) would require a serious re-think of the process. Currently the frame is assembled indoors and then taken outdoors… and the current frame is incredibly unwieldy. The dream of a 24X72 frame would require a fixed emplacement where the roof retracts. Bleah.
