Tits
I’ve got a lot of art supplies because it’s much easier to buy art supplies than to make art. I mentioned this to my daughter and she said “why not paint the birds on our bird feeder?”.
So that led down a rabbit hole, involving speciation of birds and John James Audubon etched plates, with high ambitions of a set of posters for their renovated place. In the end though, my execution of the art wouldn’t do their place justice.
I looked into mailing the painting anyway.
Because of the maximum size restrictions for normal document post (basically an A4 page in a B4 envelope), and the A3 size of the art, even rolled up, the painting would need to be sent as a package. The small package maximum dimensions don’t allow the 29.7cm short side of the A3 paper, so it would need to be sent as a regular package — with huge 100 × 60 × 60 cm limits, and a weight breakpoint of 2kg.
So, if it has to be sent as package mail for CHF8.50, I might as well buy the frame (with glass), frame the painting, bundle it up in wads of packing material, and send a wheelbarrow sized parcel — or just give it to them the next time I visit.
| Data | Description |
|---|---|
| Title | Tits |
| Artist | Derrick Oswald |
| Medium | Watercolour on 220g/m2 medium surface cartridge paper |
| Dimensions (w × h cm) | 29.7 × 42 |
| Date | 2025 |
