Best way to mail a painting

[ARTFULKAY]

I have done a commission and need to mail it from the USA to Australia. It is a full sheet, 22 x 28", acrylic on paper. Have any of you had experience sending a work that size out of the country? Do you send it rolled or flat? Thanks, Kay

[Greg Long]

If the paint is thin, you could roll it with the paint on the outside. If thick paint I'd send it flat.

[timelady]

That size, on paper, I'd roll it in the widest diameter tube I could find. Paint side out, but with a sheet of glassine or something similar over the top so the paint didn't touch another surface when rolled..

[ARTFULKAY]

Thank you Greg and Timelady. I am going to PO tomorrow. I was thinking of using tissue paper to protect painting as I roll it. I can't imagine glassine that big. Kay

[DaveMak]

Don't forget... image side out.

[ARTFULKAY]

Gotcha Dave. Kay