Animation Cel Framing in San Francisco – A Chuck Jones Signed Warner Bros. Cel at Underglass
Animation cel framing in San Francisco is something we do regularly at Underglass Custom Picture Framing. Collectors of cartoon and animation art know what they have. And they know it deserves a proper home on the wall. This piece is a 1994 Warner Bros. limited edition cel titled Peace and Carrots. It features Bugs Bunny […]
Framing Bay Area Tech Culture at Underglass – A Disassembled iPod in San Francisco
We are in the heart of San Francisco and Apple is practically in our backyard. Tech culture is part of this city’s DNA and over the years we have framed a lot of it for the people who built it, live it and love it. Engineers, designers, founders, enthusiasts – they all walk through our […]
How We Design Around the Art – A Graphite at Underglass in San Francisco
Every piece of art has a mood. Our job is to read it and build a frame design that supports it without getting in the way. This graphite drawing by Baltimore artist Josh Chance is a good example of how that process works in practice. His intricate maze-like work captures a kind of beautiful anxiety, […]
Our Pride Month Window at Underglass: Keith Haring, Harvey Milk and the Art of Remembering
We are a proudly LGBTQ+ owned frame shop in the heart of the Castro and Pride month is always personal for us. This year our windows tell a story in two pieces :one poster and one object; both framed and on view worth stopping to look at. Keith Haring — Ignorance = Fear Keith Haring […]
Framing a California Quail and Poppies Woodblock Print at Underglass in San Francisco
The California quail is our state bird. The California poppy is our state flower. Seattle artist Molly Hashimoto put both in the same print and somehow you can tell right away she had been walking the hills here her a good part of her life. Hashimoto has been painting and printing the natural world of […]
When the Frame Is the Statement: Custom Framing an Impressionist Oil Painting in San Francisco
Sometimes a client walks in and says very little, but the piece they bring says everything. That’s what happened with this one. A small impressionistic oil painting – a bluebonnet landscape, 5×7 inches on canvas. A dirt path winding through wildflowers, a large tree anchoring one side. The kind of painting that makes you want […]
Custom picture framing in San Francisco, made to last.
If you do custom picture framing in San Francisco long enough – and we’ve been doing it for over 40 years – you start to notice a pattern. People collect incredible things. Concert posters, show prints, limited edition exhibition pieces. And then those things live rolled up in a tube, or sitting in a drawer, […]
Giving a Small Piece More Presence
Giving a Small Piece More Presence In our custom frame shop in San Francisco, size doesn’t change the approach. This small illustration of a Fishwife smoked trout label has a lot of character. The design is playful, with daisies and a figure wearing a fish hat. We chose a walnut frame to bring in contrast […]
Printing and Framing at Underglass in San Francisco
A lot of what we frame starts as a file. At our frame shop in San Francisco, fine art printing in-house lets us stay in control to the details from the beginning. Color, scale, and material all get worked out before the piece ever hits the wall. We use a 44” wide-format Epson printer for […]
Staying Within the Same Tone
Some pieces don’t ask for much change. This sepia etching, Backyard by Gillian Pederson-Krag (2001), already holds a clear tonal range. Because of that, we chose to stay within it. In our custom framing San Francisco work, this approach often leads to a more resolved result. We float-mounted the piece on a slightly less saturated […]