Ray Mar Art Supplies makes these great wet panel carriers for plein air painters. Unfortunately they’re only available in inches. I tried to get Sandro at Zecchi to make them with centimeter sizes but no dice. Since I’m about to go painting on a boat for a week I decided to make my own with that hollow plastic sheeting they sell at hardware stores, and I just copied the Ray Mar design (actually my wife figured it out, I discovered I can’t visualize a 3D object as a flat shape).
Here are few pictures of it:
And here is the design, for 20 x 30 cm panels, if anyone wants to make their own. I just sealed it up with electrical tape, and made the slots from slices of the plastic sheets. I would get a medium thickness for the plastic, the one I used was the full-sized one and it’s too thick. Also, next time I would rip up an old CD case for the slots to hold the panels.
Wet panel carrier for 20 x 30 cm panels.
Thanks so much, Marc,
You’ve saved me a lot of time and no doubt a lot of frustration designing my own. Also, I’ll certainly use your suggestion of ripping up an old CD case instead of constructing the slots myself.
Cheers,
Bill Tomlinson
Being based in Europe, I have had the same problem. I have made a couple in different sizes using foam core (and duct tape). The foam core stays very rigid and yet is very light weight. Marc Hanson gave me the basic format in an excellant demo: http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=283640
Totally beyond me I’m afraid.