In Reply to: other way posted by Chris on Friday, 20. April 2007 at 14:44 Bali Time:
this info is cut an pasted from a site that has tips for artists travelling with their works and materials.
snip < Shipping Art Work
Travelling with art supplies is one challenge. Shipping fresh oil paintings is another. Here are a few suggestions.
A "fresh painting" is one that has skinned over. Dry to the touch, you can easily smear it with your finger if you press too hard. A fresh painting needs careful handling. Place your paintings face to face with wax paper or with non-stick baking paper between them. You can also place plastic push-pins at each corner of one of the paintings to put some additional space between the paintings. Unpack the paintings as soon as they get to their destination.
If your paintings are larger and you prefer to roll them for shipping
Roll the paintings with the face of the painting facing out
Roll the paintings over the largest core you can, 3" minimum. Rule for rolling paintings: the older the painting, the larger the core you need for rolling. Paintings should bend as little as possible. Fresh paintings are more flexible than older paintings.
Interleave the paintings with a non-stick material if you are rolling more than one together.
Unroll them as soon as possible.
Ship vanished paintings with nothing touching the surface.
Regularly I get calls from artists asking what to do when their gallery shipped a varnished painting with sheet plastic or bubble-wrap directly on the face of the painting. This is a bad technique because the varnish heats up under the bubble wrap and softens while in transit. Then the pattern of the bubble wrap is pressed on to the surface. >snip