Today, Tiger’s acrylic painting is making its way to the USA. I thought it would be a good idea to share how I package up my paintings. As I do not roll any of my artwork regardless if its paper based portraits or paint on canvas I always send them flat.
My canvas paintings therefore do require that little extra packaging because I send all paintings on a pre-stretched canvas so that my clients can hang them straight on the wall or frame them. If I was to send them unstretched (without the wooden frame) in a tube they would have to find a framer local to them who would put the canvas on the wooden stretcher bar frame.
Below is a collage showing the steps I take when packaging up each painting.
Majority of artists use cardboard. I personally am not happy using this and have always opted for MDF. This does of course make it more pricey however for my own piece of mind I think its worth it. I know that being sandwiched between two sheets of MDF that the artwork will arrive in perfect condition. Paper based mediums such as graphite and pastels are on paper but I mount them and then still use the MDF for posting.
Paper based portraits also have a sheet of the acid free, archival glassine protective paper. The only difference to how I package paper portraits to canvas is the foam edging. All of my canvas paintings are covered in protective foam edging and corners.