Travelling with Your Newly Owned Painting from Artist Studio or Art Gallery! tips for art parcel

 If you are the one who loves to visit art galleries and artists studios and buy art, here is some information for you. With loads of love you choose a piece of art in an exhibition, art gallery or while visiting an artists studio, and buy it. And you do pay a larger sum as original art is pricey. Paintings, art, when purchased directly from artist studio or through an art gallery is all yours now. How do you travel with your art?

Packing healing sold paintings done on paper for shipping

Bubble wrapping layer helps protect framed art from damage in travel

Packing art for shipping to buyer 

Acid free paper to cover painting

Gift paintings order framing packing

Usually in exhibitions we buy paintings on the go whatever we like and the artist may hand the artwork to you or the gallery will pack it and give it. Some artists and art galleries' during exhibitions also take down addresses and sends it alert to your address. It is very important that you take care of the new addition to your home while transporting painting. If purchased from an art gallery do involve yourself with the packaging and wrapping up of your precious new painting. The gallery representatives will do their best in packing but in case of exhibitions or sales there may not be enough facilities for packing the sold art. While you go to purchase paintings it is better that you drive , have your own vehicle or transportation facility. This helps especially in case of purchasing framed artworks. We have had the experience with twice shifting homes and so have my more than two thousand paintings always travelled safely in another van with us. Never put costly artworks along with other furniture and household items when shifting homes or art studios. 

In exhibitions if you have purchased art directly from artist , do observe the packaging technique and what was used and how, this will help you to later unpack the art when your reach home.

When packed properly the artworks will be protected from environmental and physical hazards on the way. This is your art, so you have to take precautions, be doubly sure about the proper packaging of your art. What if it is a $500 drawing on paper and you accidentally snip off while opening the art package with scissors?

There are many artist who go out of the way to pack paintings well and also add instructions for unpacking the artwork carefully, but there may also be some who feel that after selling they have no connection with the art. I still remember my first large canvas painting that was bought by a Singapore art buyer and she received my email with photo graphs of every step of how I had packed the painting with steps to unpack. Taking photographs while packing helps because it is very easy to later on forget and then opening becomes a scary subject because you may end up damaging the painting if it is packed in too tight an envelope. Photos are really good way to show how the art is packed so that the buyers can step by step unpack the artwork with ease.  For me every artwork is like my precious baby and I do love it when the buyers send photographs of paintings hanging in their space. Their home and office spreading the Reiki energies and the vibes sure are felt! 

Large Framed paintings are packed in wooden crate boxes to help them keep safe while travelling. Especially glass frames need to be handled with a lot of care. Even small sized framed paintings need a padding. I had an order of 40 small gift paintings that were to be sent to a place on an occasion and the task took lots of time. preparing those fifty or more artworks (on every gift large order I make more so that I have choice and even the buyers have choice) was just one small part of the whole process and the framing and packing was  a ton of time consuming task. Bubble wraps are very important and do work wonderfully. Every time I take care to add cardboards and Thermocol sheets to keep the protective layer. Every painting has to be first covered with white clean paper sheets. (never use news papers, never! they stain!) If the painting is of canvas, a larger size then soft muslin white cloth is used as protective covering to the previous costly painting. Even in gifting options I keep the priority of safety of the artwork. We can't cover up in shimmery gift paper and  just tie a fancy ribbon on the frame to be gifted and give it! the receiver too will have to safely carry the painting home! isn't it?

Rolled canvas need to be packed properly to avoid bending and scratching of paint from the surface of the painting. The outer section must be covered securely with cardboard roll so that the art can withstand wind, unexpected shower rain, and even sunlight while travelling. Even when you are buying the painting directly from me, I have to pack it in Roll. Usually a thick plastics tube works better than the art rolls available as these are waterproof and withstand the jerks while travelling. There may be packing  to absorb shock while travelling and also wrappers of paper or soft cloth or even a spare canvas and bubble wrap to protect the painting while packing. Shipping surely takes a lot of effort and care and hence I always say that when you collect any painting from my studio I will give you a substantial discount.

Rolling canvas painting in bubble wrap

 

In case your driver or someone else has to pick up the art piece from the gallery do give proper instructions to take care of your precious art while transporting your painting to your home.

If you have selected an artwork from an exhibition or gallery do contact the artist directly and see that the proper method of packaging is done. Never underestimate the travelling time and the road journey while travelling with your newly owned artwork. If you have a hired transport take care of giving proper seat to your precious art. Dumping it at back seat without properly securing the frame may damage it. And I am afraid no one can do anything about this afterwards. This I am saying from personal experience after bringing a large painting from the framer's shop. A soft jerk and the glass cracked....and that too when I opened the package at home, it was a sad sight as with the small crack the whole glass needed to be replaced again. So I understood that I needed to carry along bedsheets and towels, for thick padding while driving home my large sized framed paintings. Another lesson I learned was that avoid putting glass. If it is canvas painting then you can do away with the glass covering and allow the oil painting to breathe. And do understand that larger paintings become very heavy with the weight of glass.

exhibiting large painting without glass

If it is a rare precious expensive artwork do take care where you halt for a tea or snack break in between journey as you may lose your art due to negligence. Art thefts have been going on since ancient times and still do. We still struggle with art authenticity, art originality and fakes floating at cheaper process in the art market. When you buy a healing painting from me you will see that there is always an Art Authenticity certificate attached with the package, even if it is a small 3x4 inch artwork of value $150 or a large of $1000!And instructions for painting care along with best feng shuii art placement suggestions and explanations. 

When art galleries' sell they have their own shipping procedures and art is delivered in van or vehicle to the given address. There are also charges that may be extra if transport is far away city. Especially framed paintings need wooden crate boxes with proper inner support of acid free thermocol so that the frame does not move during travelling. 

The journey of travelling with your art is an unique joyful experience, a piece of the artist soul travels with your to your home, to beautify your home and your life, it gives immense happiness, excitement, hope, and happiness, as say those who have purchased art! Trust me on that the Joy is immense, with so much hope, excitement and anticipation of refreshing your space and home.  Do take proper care of your art while traveling and enjoy the art!

All the Best, God Bless from Rizwana!

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