Maple Frame With A Hard Edge For Earth Toned Art
We chose a maple frame for this beautiful @justinablakeney painting. We loved the straight line of the actual painting and wanted to keep that visual element in our custom frame design by adding the hard edge of the wood frame. We think that this maple frame with a hard edge works really well for this […]
Iphone Photo Mounted And Framed
Our client had this iphone photo mounted on aluminum and we framed a textured metallic colored floater frame. We created a slightly wider gap between photo and frame to create more space. This custom picture frame design offers both, a strong, traditional look with its finish and a modern feel because it is a photo […]
Frames for Art of Color and Form
We finished this week with two amazing pieces of art: Artist Alex Voinea’s colorful painting called for a frame design where his art could freely continue its movement and we thought a floating technique and a thin whitewash Ash hardwood frame, with matching spacers would just do that! We used a clean gallery cap frame […]
Framing Technique: Floating Art
We loved framing this wonderful art by Cyrielle Gulacsy @cyrielle_gulacsy and it is the perfect example for a custom picture framing technique called floating. With this way of framing you can highlight the edges of the art paper by lifting it up from the mat it gets mounted on. It is also a great way […]
Framing a 70’s Art School Project
This was an art school project from the late 70’s. The goal was to look like a storyboard for a book about birdwatching. We recreated the exact mat openings that the artist originally had to cut by hand; we added the squared openings around each grouping to add a bit more structure. The actual frame […]
Oversized, contemporary whitewash ash wood floater frame for Acrylic painting
This is one of those pieces you have to make sure you client can fit through their door! We used a contemporary style clean whitewash Ash floater wood frame for this roughly 7’x7’ acrylic painting on canvas. Floater Frames are perfect for canvas art, mounted art and stretched fabrics too. We have many options for […]
Happy 4th of July with this stacked frame design!
Often when someone brings in a super colorful art piece they want to go more neutral with the framing to tone it down. But every now and again you have someone that wants to lean into it! We came up with a frame design and stacked a red and purple beveled wood frame to be […]
Another week of amazing custom frame projects in San Francisco!
We had the opportunity to work on and frame a variety of art here at our custom picture frame shops in San Francisco: British pop artist, Billy Chainsaw, collaborated with the fearless SF photographer, Ruby Ray, to create this series of 23 mixed media prints from her famous photo of William S Burroughs. If you’ve […]
This week’s framing projects at Underglass
We had some very special custom framing projects this past week: From a special gold leafed mat for a California Rodeo poster; we built a shadowbox for some items that were collected from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles; we played with depth and no color at all because we wanted the full focus to […]
Framing and Floating Art on Mats
We always try to work with the whole piece of art and that includes the actual paper or medium. For the colorful flower vase painting from @creativegrowth the frame appears to be just a clean gallery cap, but when you see it at an angle you see that beautiful warm wood tone on the side […]