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...
A giclée print Alright so this is an artist who actually paints on carpets and that’s why you’re getting that kind of an image on here. I can’t tell you where it was done but this is, so this is a giclée. A giclée is a scanned image of...
Framing of a 3D object What we haven’t discussed yet is framing objects framing 3 dimensional objects what you’re looking at here is a sand dollar. 1st of all, hard to find ever find one that is whole young friend was free diving and she brought it up for...
Framing a Cambodian rice gathering tool With the concept of 3 dimensionality – well…… Let me first tell you what this is. This is a Cambodian rice gathering tool and it came out of Cambodia. It’s a tool carved out of wood with a piece of metal attached to...
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...