Okay you pyjacks, let me put this in perspective. This is the amount of cash I would need to get to Amsterdam from Cleveland and have a 'low budget' vacation according to a lot of travel sites. A single person round trip ticket from Cleveland to Amsterdam costs me around 1500 US Dollars. Room and boarding I will not count because it's always known I'd probably camp out with my brothers in Zoetermeer. Let's just add 500 US Dollars more for contributing to gas, food and other modes of transport to go to other places and/or visiting museums/galleries. So let's assume that's 2000 US Dollars for me to spend a month or so in The Netherlands for vacation time.
Or I stay in Ohio and start making my personal 'compact' printmaking studio. The list: Homemade printing press, including money spent for blueprints: around 800 US Dollars. Etching supplies (tank, tarlatan, chemicals, trays & plates); 500 US Dollars. Relief printing and Ink supplies (includes brayers, lino/wood, inkingslab); 300 US Dollars. Ragpapers; 25 US Dollars per sheet, let's assume I'll spend 100 US Dollars to create 16 A4 sized 'final prints'. That's a total of around 1800 US Dollars, and 200 more left to 'customize' my press with additional things such as a french press wheel I might find when doing some Antique Mall hunting around midwest Ohio, and making sure ventilation in my basement is safe.
Conclusion: I stay where I am, working on setting up my studio in the basement. Go ahead, call me a bad friend for never visiting anymore, I'm cool with that. Consider me a frenemy for being a Renegade Commander Shepard. Deal with it.
Or I stay in Ohio and start making my personal 'compact' printmaking studio. The list: Homemade printing press, including money spent for blueprints: around 800 US Dollars. Etching supplies (tank, tarlatan, chemicals, trays & plates); 500 US Dollars. Relief printing and Ink supplies (includes brayers, lino/wood, inkingslab); 300 US Dollars. Ragpapers; 25 US Dollars per sheet, let's assume I'll spend 100 US Dollars to create 16 A4 sized 'final prints'. That's a total of around 1800 US Dollars, and 200 more left to 'customize' my press with additional things such as a french press wheel I might find when doing some Antique Mall hunting around midwest Ohio, and making sure ventilation in my basement is safe.
Conclusion: I stay where I am, working on setting up my studio in the basement. Go ahead, call me a bad friend for never visiting anymore, I'm cool with that. Consider me a frenemy for being a Renegade Commander Shepard. Deal with it.
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