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 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...
A Custom Frame So, this particular piece is a drawing of a house that was built in 1900. The client brought it in, it’s an ink and coloured image, brought it in for us to frame. The client wanted to create a situation where he was using some of...
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...