Shipping and handling
 

I need to mail a painting on Masonite. There is no particular hurry on this one, but I know the client is anxious to get it nonetheless. I have shipped paintings wet (or nearly so) by packaging them in cheap, cast-off, garage sale quality frames, but I haven't got one of those right now in the size I need.

I spoke with a gallery director friend of mine that says he refuses to ever ship a painting wet. But he has no qualms about simply bubble-wrapping a dry painting really well.

So... 1) When is an oil painting dry enough to ship? 2) Does anybody else have any fabulous solutions to shipping artwork (unframed)?

I've had bubble wrap stick to and mar the surface of a painting that was "almost" dry. I thought it was dry, actually. Best to wait until you're sure.

At a Uhaul place they have these foam corners to put on a picture/painting for moving. If you put those on the corners of the cnavas, then wrapped in protective paper tightly it wouldnt touch the canvas surface - just the corners. Then bubble wrap over that.

Thank you both! I'm glad to know U-Haul sells those little corners, that's another place I should've called.

Michelle-

So, do you think three weeks drying time on really thin paint is good enough?

It depends on so many factors: where you live, what the weather is like, how thick the paint is, how much oil was in the paint, etc.