Robert Watcher
Well-known member
Gotta love Amazon —- for having professional products that were a challenge to find, and required expensive large quantity purchase in the past ——- and with next day delivery to our door (all the way from China 😝).
Complete well designed shipping package containing beveled mat, backing board and cellophane sleeve to make my prints available locally. 👌🏻
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When you have produced thousands of images that are either buried in feeds online where no one enjoys them once consumed —— or you print them to the point where your house becomes annoying full of them. The only option I’ve had is to give a few friends a print copy when they let me know they like a pic I have taken.
Last weekend, Anne and I went to see an outdoor display our oldest daughter Rachel had in a city a bit under an hour from us. Rachel is amazingly skilled with her yarn creations and has been booking more and more shows to sell at this year. I was sitting thinking about how I may be able to set up a tent to sell prints, but I’ve been through the years of manning my studio and so that doesn’t appeal to me. Nor does the effort of hauling around tons of gear and setting up and tearing down. Rachel suggested I make up a few prints and she would display them in one of her little wooden crates for people to thumb through.
I checked Amazon and ordered the package of 25 units, then spent an hour printing 25 5x7 different prints to mount in the mat. So cool and so effortless. I’m not at all worried about the need to sell any - just kind of fun knowing the exposure to people seeing my work and possibility of one sitting on someone’s mantle, is there. Plus it gives me purpose in printing and building a stock of them in my retirement.
This was Rachel’s setup lastweekend
Complete well designed shipping package containing beveled mat, backing board and cellophane sleeve to make my prints available locally. 👌🏻
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When you have produced thousands of images that are either buried in feeds online where no one enjoys them once consumed —— or you print them to the point where your house becomes annoying full of them. The only option I’ve had is to give a few friends a print copy when they let me know they like a pic I have taken.
Last weekend, Anne and I went to see an outdoor display our oldest daughter Rachel had in a city a bit under an hour from us. Rachel is amazingly skilled with her yarn creations and has been booking more and more shows to sell at this year. I was sitting thinking about how I may be able to set up a tent to sell prints, but I’ve been through the years of manning my studio and so that doesn’t appeal to me. Nor does the effort of hauling around tons of gear and setting up and tearing down. Rachel suggested I make up a few prints and she would display them in one of her little wooden crates for people to thumb through.
I checked Amazon and ordered the package of 25 units, then spent an hour printing 25 5x7 different prints to mount in the mat. So cool and so effortless. I’m not at all worried about the need to sell any - just kind of fun knowing the exposure to people seeing my work and possibility of one sitting on someone’s mantle, is there. Plus it gives me purpose in printing and building a stock of them in my retirement.
This was Rachel’s setup lastweekend
