The purpose of a frame is to focus your eye. To focus the eye of the viewer, so that your peripheral vision isn't distracting, doesn't distract you from the content.
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So, this painting is by Chaki. He is a Greek born artist who's been living in Montreal for the last 50 years of his life. He is a very well-known artist from Montréal region who also sells internationally.
A floating frame –what is it and how does it look? We often get people bringing in paintings. They basically require 1 of 2 ways to be framed. While there are many different styles to frame a painting there are primarily two ways to do it. What I consider...
A more traditional way of framing a painting So, before I was speaking about the 2 different kinds of ways of framing something like this. This is where the frame actually goes on top of the painting. This is the actual frame right from the front and from the...
How to frame a photograph – design and rationale. We have here a photograph that a client brought in. Obviously, it’s of a couple and this is the effect of it in a single mat. We’ve taken the mat and decided to chose a white colour that was soft...
Looking through the window So now we are looking at a photograph taken off the coast of the Portland, Oregon coast. It’s quite special for me because Bill Stirewalt, the photographer, who took this is a good friend and this is an exquisite photograph – a platinum print. So,...
A Frame For a Photograph Alright so now is a photograph taken by Joe Donnelly. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. What I wanted to do with this was to make the greens that are in there as well as the reflections of the water drops as strong...
Plein Page We were talking earlier about ‘’plein page’’ – French for full page. This is an exaggerated impression of what ‘’plein page’’ is. What we’re looking at here is handmade paper, much thicker than normal and with much rougher edges than normal. The artist, Pierre Marie Brisson, was...
A Pastel Sec painting by Stephen Lack Alright, so this is what is called a Pastel Sec, a Dry… Just imagine a thick crayon, a really thick crayon, it’s pastel with oils in it and it actually works like that. The advantage, is that you actually see texturing in...
A Carborundum etching by Pierre Marie Brisson Alright, so this is another piece by Pierre Marie Brisson from France and you can see the stick figures. As somebody said, chicken scratching by a doctor or by me, because my handwriting is a little bit like that by now. What...