A long time ago in a Framing life far, far away....
I used to get the opportunity to do much more crazy stuff framing than I do now. I have a couple hundred photos of pieces I have done over the years. I thought I would pick a handful and scan them into the computer and try to clean up the old polaroids...(Yes!! Polaroids! NO Nicole, I won't explain WHAT those are...LOL!!)..and share my youth...
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I apologize for the less than stellar quality of the photos.
Bear in mind these were done WELL before CMC's! And of course, being an artist came in handy for all the painting.
This was a very large serigraph and the design was used to create a decorative splice on the sides. The design on the top and bottom was cut on a standard oval cutter. The gold star inlayed into the opening and the black lines are v-grooves. You can barely see the top of the work bench on the left side to give you an idea how large this piece is:
This next one was for a dinosaur fantasy art print sample. I painted the figure in the bottom right on the top mat. The mat actually has a hand cut extension overhanging the lower two mats...(the neck and head of the dinosaur)... that is painted to give it that 3D look. It isn't something adhered to the top mat, but the mat itself cut that way. I used to do a lot of this kind of thing.
On this piece the feathers and beadwork are all painted. I hand-cut the openings for the feathers and painted them on 2ply rag then inserted underneath the openings. The beadwork was painted on the suede mat surface itself. For a four year period I painted literally dozens of mats like this for this pastel artist:
This one was one of the few frames that I painted. Please excuse the flash hotspot. It is acrylic paint on a matte black frame then sprayed with an acrylic varnish:
And finally...This is a close up of a mat where the top half is a suede top mat, a second mat wrapped in hand made paper, and a rag mat for the inner mat. The lower part was three white rag mats that were then spliced to the top three mats, then the floor was carried out and painted to give that it sort of an "Escheresque" effect:
Well...I better stop now...thanks for letting this old "Framing Fart" reminisce...LOL!
I used to get the opportunity to do much more crazy stuff framing than I do now. I have a couple hundred photos of pieces I have done over the years. I thought I would pick a handful and scan them into the computer and try to clean up the old polaroids...(Yes!! Polaroids! NO Nicole, I won't explain WHAT those are...LOL!!)..and share my youth...
! I apologize for the less than stellar quality of the photos.
Bear in mind these were done WELL before CMC's! And of course, being an artist came in handy for all the painting.
This was a very large serigraph and the design was used to create a decorative splice on the sides. The design on the top and bottom was cut on a standard oval cutter. The gold star inlayed into the opening and the black lines are v-grooves. You can barely see the top of the work bench on the left side to give you an idea how large this piece is:
This next one was for a dinosaur fantasy art print sample. I painted the figure in the bottom right on the top mat. The mat actually has a hand cut extension overhanging the lower two mats...(the neck and head of the dinosaur)... that is painted to give it that 3D look. It isn't something adhered to the top mat, but the mat itself cut that way. I used to do a lot of this kind of thing.
On this piece the feathers and beadwork are all painted. I hand-cut the openings for the feathers and painted them on 2ply rag then inserted underneath the openings. The beadwork was painted on the suede mat surface itself. For a four year period I painted literally dozens of mats like this for this pastel artist:
This one was one of the few frames that I painted. Please excuse the flash hotspot. It is acrylic paint on a matte black frame then sprayed with an acrylic varnish:
And finally...This is a close up of a mat where the top half is a suede top mat, a second mat wrapped in hand made paper, and a rag mat for the inner mat. The lower part was three white rag mats that were then spliced to the top three mats, then the floor was carried out and painted to give that it sort of an "Escheresque" effect:
Well...I better stop now...thanks for letting this old "Framing Fart" reminisce...LOL!
