[Tom Edgerton]

Steven--

Thanks for such a terrific, comprehensive reply; this is good advice for all workshops, not just Mr. Greene's.

Beth--

I've flown home with wet work, and this worked for me:
I take an 18x24 (fits in my suitcase) piece of Homosote board, with edges finished off with good old duct tape. (Homosote is that old gray, soft, fibrous particle board that they used to make bulletin boards in grammar schools back Before The Flood.) I also take a good number of scraps of canvas of the same size rolled up in a tube. Then when I'm painting, I thumbtack a piece of canvas to the Homosote, on the easel. This eliminates the need for stretchers. At the end of the week, I stack all of the semi-wet paintings onto the Homosote, front to back, and thumbtack through all of them to hold them secure. Wrap the whole thing in borrowed Saran Wrap, or a plastic garbage bag, and fly back with it in the bottom of the suitcase. Then you're not rolling the paintings and possibly cracking the ones you want to continue with back home.

Works for me, anyway.

Good luck, Melinda!