The Impact Of Custom Frames On Your Art
With these two images of our latest finished custom picture framing projects we wanted to show the visual impact a custom frame has on each individual piece of art! This impressionist seascape painting on a board has style way beyond its 4” stature and the rustic wooden frame we chose extends right into the art […]
3 Examples How Art Inspired Our Frame Choice
Here are 3 examples how art inspired our frame choice! Each of these unique paintings gave us enough inspiration and direction for our custom frame design. When we start looking at a new framing project we often look for texture, highlights, color and shapes in the art. For the first image, Danys y Liethis, 2005 […]
Powerful Woodblock Art Framed
When we saw this powerful woodblock and stencil volcan fuego art we knew we had to showcase it up to the edges of the paper! So we floated it on a mat with a fairly narrow margin to the frame. One of our techniques to design your frame projects and keep the attention always to […]
Fun Framing Project!
This fun framing project for a sardine knit-work piece brought lots of smiles to us ! We used bright red, extra deep shadowbox walls to keep it as light and playful as the art. We love building custom picture frames for all sorts of art and objects! A shadowbox like the one in this photo […]
Framing Art That Deals With The Human Body
It is Friday and we love the way this custom frame we just finished before the weekend starts! The washy finish of the wooden frame mimics the movement of the psychedelic painting and the super clean 8 ply mat creates the perfect contrast in this frame design. Also, when we posted this in our @underglassframing […]
Carved Frame and Whitewash Shadowbox
Our frame shops here in San Francisco get a lot interesting art to frame. This week we started with finishing these two amazing custom frames: We had a lot of fun floating the limited edition print with all the dogs on it. We liked the super simple frame design of a whitewash shadowbox. A match […]
Oak Wood Frame For Art In Shadowbox
For this beautiful art print we used a white oak to pull on the warmth but still allow the piece to get the full attention. Oak is such a beautiful wood and here at Underglass Custom Picture Framing we are glad it’s been making a comeback! Shadowbox framing is just one of our specialties we […]
Prisma Frames for Fine Art
Look at this beautiful fine art print New York artist Mel Odom @mel.odom ! This seamless acrylic Prisma frame is the perfect balance of soft edges and hard lines for this Mel Odom print. We now offer acrylic prisma frames as custom picture frame to fit your art and also we have a small selection […]
New Year – New Framing Projects!
The New Year started out with finishing this complex framing project for our Local 38. We handsewed these beautiful antique handmade banners on fabric mats and built three walnut shadowbox frames to give them a new housing. The custom frames are 5, 6 and 7 foot tall! These banners hung for decades in their old […]
Amazing Classic Stacked Frame For Antique Portrait
Mirza Abolhassan Khan Shirazi Ilchi Kabir was an Iranian statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1824 to 1834, and then again from 1838 until his death in 1846. We were so lucky to frame this antique portrait painting in a true custom picture framing approach: A stacked frame! Three different frames […]