Custom Framing: How to design a new frame and taking hints for color choices from your art
When you are ready to custom frame some of your art that’s sitting around for a while and you get to your local frame shop you are sometimes faced with a lot of framing choices. So how to make this choice a little easier? Take a few hints from your art! Look at the colors […]
Custom Framing Collectable Animation Art – Winnie the Pooh
Custom framing collectible art is often a very personal and fun project for us. Especially when our client brings in an original from Walt Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day that won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. For this Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Studio model sheet […]
The Perfect Picture Frame For Your Home Has 3 Elements To Make Your Art Stand Out
What is the perfect picture frame? When it comes to designing your new frame for your home a lot comes down to personal taste, just like the art you choose for your walls. But there are 3 important elements to remember to really make your art stand out when you design your picture frame with […]
Framing A Signed Lichtenstein Screen Print
Roy Lichtenstein signed this limited edition screen print from 1070 in pencil. We loved the limited color palette of black and white with a highlight of yellow and continued this in our custom frame design. Our double mat echoes these colors with a thin black and yellow core. The frame itself is industrial looking and […]
A Frame For Classic Wall Art Painting!
Our frame for this classic wall canvas plays right along with the red tones in the painting and we love the little gold fillet for the extra visual effect! Visit us at our frame shop here in San Francisco and show us your next framing project! Our walls are full of frame samples to choose […]
Photography And The Art Of Framing
As custom picture framers we love the combination of photography and the art of framing. For this amazing photo of what might be a starling we took inspiration from the wings of the bird and chose a frame with detail that mimics the feel of the feathers. We rounded out this classic looking picture frame […]
So Many Ways To Frame Art Prints
We love the options we have when we frame art prints! With a more traditional mat that is placed on top of the edges and a walnut custom frame for the blue Roger Brown lithograph from 1970 we created a really strong and bold look. The second colorful print is so much fun and we […]
Float Mounted Watercolor
Zoom into this watercolor we just framed and discover the mood and little details apart from the mushroom! For this custom wall frame we float mounted the painting on a mat and chose a textured frame that picks up the shape and detail in the mushrooms! We love our job as custom picture framers in […]
Framing Colorful Art
Here are two completely different approaches to framing art that is colorful! When we start a design for a custom picture frame for any art we always try to get a feel for what works best with the art and what our client likes. For the image with the yellow to orange small painted squares […]
This is why we love custom picture framing
Look at the variety of art we got to frame this week again! We made a great little white frame white mat design for the little dog paintings and fitted them all in one long wall frame – perfect for almost any room! For the second image, the antique painting: Our client wanted to match […]