a large frame

JFeig

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well gals and guys my large frame project is done. The finished frame is for a 95" x 55" painting. The outside is 117" x 70".

The design and finish is per the artists design and what I could do with raw moulding from Fosters in LA.

BTY the painting is going to be shown at an opening in LA before being shipped to a collector in Oregon.

http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h69/fieldartstudio/?action=view&current=DSCN0008.jpg
entire frame

http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h69/fieldartstudio/?action=view&current=DSCN0006.jpg
upper left corner

http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h69/fieldartstudio/?action=view&current=DSCN0007.jpg
lower left corner

The frame is upside down since I could not invert it without a crew.
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I think this is the same painter that did the Rat Fink painting...

just a thought...

don't remember where it was going....

carry on.

I need a nap.
 
Great frame, Jermome! I'm sure there were many hours put into that one.

Can't say that I like the actual painting, though - just not my cup of tea
 
& how many profiles did you have to piece together? What a puzzle. Great work! You must have a big workroom, or did you just assemble it on the showroom floor? At least you kept it small enough to get it through the door...right? Remember the story of the frames for the Geo. B. library?
 
Can we see more detail on how the corners are made and joined?
I particularly like the way the corners are curved?
Least that is the way the appeared to me in the picture???
 
Yes. 1 1/2" to spare for the front door. (Measured twice)
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The main construction of the frame was done in a hallway portion of my fitting room. I used 4 profiles from Foster Milling and milled one additional profile in a table saw (moulding head attachment). Blocking was done with 1" poplar planking cut to size. The gessoing and finishing was done on 2 banquet tables spread apart to support the frame.

Now that is in a crate - I am waiting for the freight forwarding company to pick it up so I can go home.
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the freight company is here - one person and no equipment :confused:

they have to send another truck with a proper staffing and proper equipment. (they were given approx size and weight - it was on the way bill)

[ 07-03-2006, 01:33 PM: Message edited by: JFeig ]
 
Wow- Great framing, and pretty cool painting too. I looked at the artist's web site. Some of his art has that "60's kitsch" feel about it, but some (like the one you framed) is more surreal. At first, I thought maybe this was the same artist who did the cover of Frank Zappa's album Overnite Sensation, but I just checked that cover and it's credited to a David B. McMackin. Similar style and feel anyway.
:cool: Rick
Jerome- could you give us some info on how you constructed the frame and did the finish? Thanks.
P.S. Baer, that Ratfink stuff was by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
 
Rick
The frame was made from raw moulding - glued and nailed together (stacked)... The gesso is basic gesso used by all gilders (rabbit skin glue and whitting) The rabbit was deepened with a 1 x 1 poplar lumber and the sides, the same. The depth of the frame (top and bottoms) were extended with 45° miters, much like any cabinet or or mantel over a fireplace.

The gesso was sanded smooth... and then the artist saw an old sample of a ventian frame that had a rough texture. So I took some more gesso and rough painted, dripped and splattered it over the just anded "Clean" surface to give it a globby look. Several tools were used to distress the surface: chains, punch awl, HD wood rasp, crow bar.

The finish is layers of shellac, powdered pigment and shellac, casein paint, paste wax and rotten stone.
 
Jerome that is awesome. I once had a friend who is now the distrbution manager for AMPF/ZINSEL in N.C.( Larry Filaberto)

He used to do some very nice Goldleafing and was contractedby the Local Cabildo Museeum to frame a Oil of Andrew Jackson or Napolean that was I belive he said was 10 ft. by a5 ft.

He had two problems they wabteda bigg ( really wide) gold leaf molding and they didn't want the art work to leave the museeum.

So he had to make his own moulding by stacking planks and raw mouldings and then leafing them in the lenghts he needed ( plus waste) and then he had to dvise a construction system that he could use that woulsd allow him to assemble the frame at the Museem after he made the moulding and then fit the Painting in the Museem after hours and hang it.

The corners were what I understood was the biggest problem ( for Larry anyway.LOL)
But he couldn't assemble it at his shop because he would need a hugh truck to transport a 120 x 180 in frame in one piece.

Did you encounter these same problems and how did you get around them?
BUDDY
 
Rick, the "Rat Fink" picture I was refering to was done by Barr. Think everything a kid would grow up on in the early 60s then drop acid... now put that trip on a 60x72 sheet of masonite....

Ed Roth's Rat was weird enough, but Barr put him up on steroids.... BTW, Rat Fink is no longer under copywrite.. It was nearing sunset when Roth's ol' lady hung him in divorce.... he kind of fought with her a bit.. but also let her have the rights to all of Rat Fink stuff.. [it wasn't throwing an income stream anyway.]
About the time she thought to throw some money in the pot to revive the whole system.. yup, sunset. Bam...
and with the money she had infused.. China is now ready to infuse her again.
 
You sanded that whole monster smooth & then he wanted texture? Doh! I'da been thinking, you know, dead artists work IS worth more... Gilding is fun, sanding sucks (so wear a mask) Always show the textured samples first. Texture is good.
 
I love the artwork...the whole japanamation, alien, sexy, kitsch, elongated thing is really in. But I like this more than the other stuff. I like the women sexy and a bit rough-sort of like japanamation and pin up girls colliding.

The frame is pretty nifty. It is fun doing big stuff. My first silk mat that I got to do was somethig absurd like 46 x 115 inches. Talking about learning curve...it came out good. I was nervous as all heck, but did it. Since then things have been a bit easier.

PL

got any cloeups of the finsh on the frame?
 
After some research, I discovered that it wasn's Barr that painted the painting I was thinking about, it was Todd Storch.

Kind of the same warped puppy style.
 
.... The gesso is basic gesso used by all gilders (rabbit skin glue and whitting) The rabbit was deepened with a 1 x 1 poplar lumber and the sides, the same....

Poor rabbit
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Very cool!! Awesome job!
 
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