Does your frame fit your painting? Framing changes the painting. It can dress it up or it can be very distracting. Nothing worse than someone looking at your painting in a show and saying, "Wow, that is a pretty frame!" It seems to me to keep your frames in a similar style and color as well. It unifies your work and helps people know it is your painting.
My frames tend to be dark wooden frames either gallery style or plein air style. I have used gold, but not very often. Most of my paintings are standard size so that the owner can just pop on a different frame if they desire.
I frame my pastels against the glass or acrylic in a package, passé-partout, so you can pop them out just like an oil painting. Richard Mckinley talks about that here: https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/pastel/pastel-pointers-blog-passe-partout-framing/
Gene does the framing and we have been using the passé-partout framing for many years, 25 or more. When you use museum style glass, pastel paintings look like oil paintings in the frame.
The rooster from a few days ago is framed in a dark wooden frame on an easel. No glass as the painting is acrylic on canvas panel.
I like the way it turned out and the gift recipient was very happy with the painting. (You can click to see the images larger.)
A few samples of my framed work.
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| Regina's painting on the left. Then three pastels with museum glass and the bottom and far right are oil paintings. |
And then, sometimes a frame can just be fun, right?
Number 1, electric - a new to me can opener, hand me down from Joanna
Number 2, aluminum - an aluminum pan and lid. The pan is aluminum but finished in red.
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