How To Pack Pictures And Paintings For Moving. Tape the bubble wrap around the picture. For larger, heavy items you may need a wooden crate, as you’ll see below.
Position your packed paintings and mirrors vertically (on their edges, not lying flat). Add some more crumpled packing paper along the sides and the edges of the package. To pack large photos and canvas paintings, lie the artwork face down on a piece of bubble wrap about double the width of the picture.
This will ensure the paper stays in place during the move.
Don’t store paintings on top of each other. Do not store paintings in a basement or attic. If your artwork has a glass pane, use your painters’ tape to make a big x across the glass side, and go around the edge of the glass near the frame. If you're packing small photos and frames, and are packing them together into.