Framing A Painting With A Rough Paper Edge
At Underglass, we love framing paintings with a rough paper edge. When artists make a point of showing the edge of their paper we have a special technique to incorporate that edge into the frame design: By floating the paper of this abstract multilayered painting, we were able. to create some depth and show off […]
When Frame Design Meets Artwork
When frame design meets artwork! For this geometrical cone shaped print we wanted to follow with a custom double mat as close as possible the outline of the blue painting, and we did! We love the deep bevel of the white 8ply mat and the underlying black mat. Underglass Custom Framing in San Francisco is […]
Acrylic Painting in Classic Gold Frame
“Persecution of Adam & Steve, Acrylic” by @donavansgallery in classic gold frame. Our client brought in this amazing piece, so we looked up the artist’s page and we recommend you see it for yourself! There is so much to see! Also, we always get excited to see art by local artists here in our San […]
Happy Birthday Keith Haring!
Happy Birthday Keith Haring! He would have been 64 today. We got to frame these two portraits of the artist! This first image is a photograph by Herb Ritts and the second image is a Shepard Fairey Letterprint. We chose frames that worked with the print and paper colors, keeping the art the center of […]
Gold Tone Design for Antique Rice Paper Art
We love these antique rice paper prints designer friends from Redmond Aldrich Design brought in. Their vision for this custom picture frame design was perfect, a gold brass look for the actual frame is all this frame projected needed! We used all conservation and museum quality materials so it will protected for many, many years […]
Ornate Custom Frame with Fillet for Watercolor
We can’t stop looking at this amazing watercolor by Kerry Konow @3paintedbirds ! We love how this frame’s motif plays on the beautiful feather embellishment in the art. This is a classic custom framing design with an ornate gold wood frame, a matching fillet and a satin black mat that perfectly picks up on the […]
Modern Art with Classic Ornate Frame and Linen Mat
We love Turin based Artist Federico Cortese and his complex pieces of art. For this visually striking psychedelic octopus painting our client was happiest with an ornate gold painted frame and a classic linen mat that supports the texture of the painting and gives a rich feel to the overall picture frame design we came […]
Bold Gold Colored Frame for Canvas
We used an extra thick floater frame to play on the heavy lines in this colorful painting on canvas and chose a gold to pull on the warmth and bold colors. We love custom framing with floater frames. They create a nice space between. canvas and art and we have a lot of these frames […]
Protecting your Art and Precious Items with a Custom Built Shadow Box
Our GOOOOOAAAAAL is to protect and beautify your art and precious items! We found the perfect tone of gold and black frame for this Hall of Fame, Thierry Henry jersey for a diehard fan! This custom built shadow box frame with UV filtering and glare reducing glazing makes all the difference to preserve and make […]
We Love the Art we get to Frame!
This past week we framed so much interesting art! From prints to paintings, whimsical and bold and colorful art- and we love it all. We floated some prints to get more shadow play, we matted with an added fillet for the classic and ornate look and we kept it bold and sharp with a deep […]