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Framing

Sat Jul 18, 2009, 12:29 PM
Spent *all day* framing pictures.
It was exhausting nerve wracking work. I forgot how much time, effort and fiddling it takes to do it well without destroying the artwork in question. I'm not very accustomed to framing and mounting, and am usually loath to chop up a piece. I know cropping is very useful, and sometimes essential to finish a piece, but I've always been a bit adverse to going ahead with it. Even if I have a clear plan for cropping, it always makes me nervous. I suppose I need more practice. It's one thing to 'finish' a piece, stick it in a portfolio for curation, perhaps digitising it along the way, and then moving on, but it's a whole different ball game cropping, mounting and framing it. The frame has to match the piece, it has to fit, it takes money, time and searching. Then the piece might need chopping down to size, it has to be perfectly straight in the frame... it actually makes me worry! Creating the piece itself is usually little bother, so it's no wonder I usually put off framing!

Fortunately, it seems I managed to frame about 5 large painting and drawings today, with no casualties... yet.

If I frame a few more and feel I have the knack as a routine, I may start trying to sell a few framed paintings locally or something. I suspect people will value them more if they are nicely presented. I understand it's about convenience and so on, but it just amazes me that 95% of the work can make or break on the last 5% put into how it's shown.

Putting a picture in a frame - yet another thing they simply do not teach you at school that they really should.

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Thanks for the favourite. :)
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Thank you for the strong compliment! Sorry for the delay in replying, I have had to avoid time on DA recently. I am extremely impressed by the portrait featured on your front page! It's definitely far in excess of anything I could currently do. I'm very inexperienced with oils and would love to learn to paint to your standard.

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