Working with colours
One of our recent commissions
One of our recent commissions
One of our recent commissions
Every so often, I get asked to undertake a different style of framing. That may involve working with new materials, applying different techniques and, as happened recently, working with an exciting range of colour schemes.
Here you can see the various stages of the work and the finished results - definitely one of my most enjoyable commissions to date.
The initial brief
One of our recent commissions
One of our recent commissions
The brief was to frame 16, 12cm square fragments of paintings, arranged as shown above, with contrasting mounts and frames.
Measuring
One of our recent commissions
Measuring
Each fragment needed to have the same border all round. This required painstaking marking out of each mountboard prior to cutting. .
Cutting
Painting the frames
Measuring
Cutting multiple windows requires particular attention to over- and undercuts (those lines that one often sees in the corner of windows where the blade has overrun.)
Painting the frames
Painting the frames
Painting the frames
The frames, constructed by us out of 35mm flat beech, were sanded and painted using 2 coats of Little Green sampler colours
Assembly & Hanging
Painting the frames
Painting the frames
Finally, it all comes together.