A metaphor which applies to this painting on both literal and ironic levels.
Both ships imagined together in this composition, The Amistad and The Charles W. Morgan, have recently sailed out of the Granary Gallery and on to the walls of an island patron.
Which means the image meets the criteria for being offered as a print in the HN Studio Print Gallery.
And that brings me to the reckoning with the rising costs of everything involved in making those prints, from ink (which is the most expensive liquid on the planet… a Jeopardy answer that I guessed at and got right !), to the paper and the packaging tubes, etc. But last week when I sent the Head of the Shipping Department…Herself…on a mission to drop a print order off at UPS she called from the counter to say they wanted almost $70 to ship that tube. An almost $50 increase since the last one we shipped.
After a couple weeks of scratching my head and investigating other options we think we have a reasonable plan to use the USPS and have settled on a flat rate of $25 for shipping. That covers most of the shipping fees that we use to absorb without raising the price of the prints themselves.
Caught up in the wave of the cost of doing business …the ship of free shipping… has sailed.
Meanwhile the brushes are flying in the studio and fired up for a long winter of painting.
We appreciate every one of you who has supported us and the work over the years and are grateful to have you along for the ride.
Best wishes for a happy new year to all !
