![]() ![]() Lastly, if the tube with the rolled up canvas will be sent to a third party or someone other than you make sure that you include a note with your instructions as to what to do. Unroll it or have someone unroll it as soon as you possible. Don't leave the painting rolled inside its tube any longer than you have to. This will reduce the weight and unilateral surface paint compression. Keep the transport tube upright on its ends rather than flat on its side, especially with large and heavy canvases. The double wall protection will enhance its protection from damage during transport. If possible, put the tube you've rolled up your canvas in into another, bigger tube. Roll up the canvas as evenly as possible and tape its outer edges securely to the transporting tube to stop the canvas from moving and bumping during its transit. Most people do the opposite and unwittingly increase the surface curvature and tension. The canvas should be rolled with the painted surface facing outwards, not inwards. The less the curvature of the rolled canvas is the less the risk of damage. Roll the painting into the widest tube you can find ( 10cms or more ) and do so as loosely as you can. Doing so while very cold or cold might just crack the oil paint, especially if thick. Roll and unroll the oil painting at warm or ambient room temperature and not in cold weather. Glad wrap or bubble wrap are unsuitable as these might ferrotype (stick to) the paint and flak off and ruin the artwork. Lay a thick sheet of plastic or polyethylene on the canvas surface before you roll it. Ask the artist or gallery you bought it from how long this should be. Before rolling up and shipping your oil painting, let it cure or dry properly. Avoid anything painted with house paint as the painting will crack when rolled or unrolled form its transport tube. ![]() If that's not possible at least ask if oil paint or house paint has been used. If possible, ask the artist you're buying the oil painting from to show you the paint he used. If you're in the habit of going overseas to buy your oil paintings and shipping them home to yourself, family or friends you might consider a few tips to make sure your artwork gets where you want it in a good condition. ![]() Often these inferior and damaged canvases can be successfully framed not by stretching them over a stretcher frame but by wet mounting them on suitable backings. Nevertheless, even in these challenging circumstances there can be ways around the problem. Unfortunately, this method is even worse than painting with acrylic house paint. In yet other examples, an artist instead of painting over an artist’s canvas, has painted on cotton-like, thin materials, like bed sheets, which have been gessoed over and then painted. This type of paint will readily split and crack if even slightly bent or twisted during straightening or stretching. In other instances, the artist who painted the canvas hasn't used quality oil painting media but cheaper acrylic house paint. In some cases, what happens is that the oil painting has been painted quite thickly, almost palette-like, that it has dried up, while tightly rolled up, and that on unrolling and straightening it, the surface of the painting starts to crack. The canvas can be unrolled, relaxed and either or fully framed Sometimes though, this isn't possible. In most cases, to frame painting rolled up, can be done. ![]()
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