How To Pack Your Paintings For Shipping

Do you know how to pack your paintings for shipping? An experienced art handler shares his professional person expertise so that you can acquire how to pack your art.

Do you know how to pack your paintings for shipping? Packing paintings can seem like a daunting job and many artists worry nearly whether they're packing them correctly –  it'southward certainly truthful that much harm can exist avoided by packing artwork properly. In this video tutorial, art handler Peter shares his professional person expertise with uncomplicated instructions to help you lot pack your artwork like a pro.


Our video demonstrates how to pack a painting besides as a framed photo. Take a look at some of the video's highlighted points…

Setup

First of all, you lot're going to demand some supplies (0:xiv):

  • Packing tape (tape gun recommended)
  • Artist tape (like masking record but it's acid free and it'due south easily removable)
  • Exacto knife or a pair of pair of scissors
  • Measuring tape
  • Glassine (a paper that is water- and grease-resistant, and it's non going to stick to the surface of your painting)
  • Foam or a blanket (soft surface)
  • Chimera-wrap or sheets of Styrofoam (for padding)
  • Paper-thin box(es)

For packing framed work, you're also going to demand:

  • Paper-thin corners
  • Brown paper

And for a mounted photograph or anything loftier glossy:

  • Nitrile or art handling cloth gloves

Packing for shipping

Allow'south Begin

But starting time, make sure your hands are make clean!

i. Glassine tips (one:45):

  • Put your painting face up downward on the glassine, leaving enough room to wrap effectually the edges.
  • Don't use packing tape, only artist tape here!
  • Fold the finish of artist tape to go out fiddling nub to catch the record with (then that it tin can be easily removed when it comes time to unpack).

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  • Record all of the longest edges first (as when wrapping a present).
  • Try to tape onto the glassine itself.
  • The less record that actually goes onto a piece, the ameliorate.

two. Bubble Wrap tips (three:03):

  • Identify the surface of your painting face-down confronting the apartment or the polish side of the bubble wrap. If y'all put the raised side of the chimera wrap against your piece, there is a adventure that it might leave an impression of the bubbles on your painting.
  • You may demand to wrap a slice in multiple layers of bubble wrap.
  • You lot'll want to make sure that you have at least two inches of extra chimera wrap on either side.

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  • At present you can use packing record across the seam of the bubble wrap to secure information technology.
  • Button down on  wrap before folding to go out actress padding on the sides of the piece.

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iii. Boxing tips (vii:56):

  • Your box is going to be pushed and slid everywhere on the delivery truck, so make sure to completelyrecord up all the sides of your box.

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  • To brand a box top, you'll demand a scoreline for the cardboard to easily fold; to practise this, run the tiresome stop of your knife (blade not extended) along a line you lot've created with your pen & measuring tape.
  • Proceed room for extra protective padding and utilise a box a little chip bigger than your piece.
  • If packing more than one piece into a box, put some paper-thin betwixt them and so that the front of the canvases are facing each other in the box.

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  • Afterward taping,adhere to the large side of the box the packing labels as well as the exhibition forms that we emailed to you lot.
  • We propose confronting the use of packing peanuts. If the box is damaged the peanuts volition spill out of whatever hole in the box and your work may get damaged likewise.

Packing Framed Art (13:49):

When packing a framed piece of artwork, especially 1 with drinking glass, we do things a niggling bit differently.

  • Use wider artist tape and tape off the glass in a star pattern- that manner, if it were to break during transit it wouldn't damage your artwork.

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  • So, wrap the whole piece in brown paper (again, as you would wrap a present).
  • Calculation protective cardboard corners is i of the about of import elements to packing a framed piece.

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  • Next, wrap in 2 layers of pocket-size bubble wrap (and more large bubble wrap, depending on the size of the box you're using).
  • Again, leave at least ii inches on the sides for extra padding.
  • Add a cardboard base layer (earlier or after the small bubble wrap).

Index:
0:fourteen – Supplies
0:57 – Ready Up
one:45 – Glassine
3:03 – Chimera Wrap
7:56 – Boxing
9:31 – Making A Box Top
eleven:27 – Padding
12:xiii – Multiple Works
12:31 – Endmost the Box
thirteen:15 – Attaching Forms
13:36 – Packing Communication
xiii:49 – Packing Framed Art
14:50 – Cardboard Corners

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