Pictured above is a painting I created on one of the boards I'll be demonstrating...

First, let me preface this article by saying, when painting locally or in my studio I generally purchase pre-stretched, pre-primed linen or canvas "off the shelf." I still prefer stretched canvas to boards although as you'll see, I do use both. But when taking many stretched canvas' traveling space prohibitive, particularly if for longer than a week.

With this in mind, the photo above clearly shows the difference in size between standard stretched canvas and the traveling boards I'm going to create. Here are 6 canvas' and 6 masonite boards of differing sizes with canvas wrapped on each. As you'll see, I can wrap each board with up to 4 canvas' and still only take up the space of two and a half standard canvas! That's right...if you do the math, that's about 2 and a half paintings to 24!

Not!! Don't forget the boards! I prime the boards before wrapping with canvas so they can be paintings too...that gives me a total of 30 paintings in the space that would only hold 2 standard canvas'!