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I try to avoid painting anything larger than will fit in my van, but if a commission calls for it, I can either rent a larger van for delivering it, or paint it on canvas, so it can be detached from the stretchers and rolled up for easier transporting. This is why canvas was adopted as a painting support in the first place; to accommodate the delivery of large commissioned paintings to the cathedrals and palaces where they were to hang. However, there are shipping companies today who can handle just about any size painting, and my preference is not to roll them, out of concern for possible cracking or other problems. I seldom paint on stretched canvas any more, due to those very concerns.
Virgil Elliott
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