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 […]
Holding Restraint Around Something Bold
In our custom framing San Francisco work, we often come back to a simple idea. Hold restraint around something bold and expressive so the work can fully speak. This recent project reflects that approach. The illustration by José María Rojas carries strong color, movement, and a clear point of view. At Underglass Custom Framing in […]
Custom Framing in San Francisco – Joan Miró Lithograph
Some works ask for restraint. This lithograph, Homenatge a Joan Prats by Joan Miró (1971), carries a strong visual language: primary colors balanced with loose black linework and spontaneous marks. As a key figure in Surrealism and Modernism, Miró’s compositions often hold both energy and precision, which naturally guides the framing decisions. At Underglass Custom […]
From Purchase to Presentation: How Our San Francisco Frame Shop Elevates Meaningful Artwork
See how custom shadowbox picture framing transformed a Gio Black Peter drawing on an MTA map. Discover how professional framing elevates artwork and makes you fall in love with it all over again. Open 7 days a week.
Museum Quality Framing for Contemporary Art
For this amazing hyperrealistic Animal Crossing painting by @erinrothstein we opted for a bold looking frame design that meets all the marks for a Museum quality frame and our client’s personal interior design taste.
Framing Your Art With Hand-wrapped Fabric Mats
Whenever you get a Grace Jones comp card to frame it better be glam! So we used this traditional High End matting style where you hand-wrap a mat with a beautiful fabric. for this classic 1981 photo by Jean-Paul Goude Our client chose a grey toned fabric and a stylish, elegant shiny […]
Framing a Keith Haring at Underglass
We framed this original drawing by Keith Haring and love the red acrylic custom frame our client chose! What a perfect color match. The art is floated and then matted with a white and red core mat. We value the trust our clients show us when they bring their treasured art like this one of […]
Framing Big Painters At Underglass
Framing big painters at Underglass this week! These wonderful prints of works by French artist Matisse and Russian/French Chagall both highlight sublte but different approaches to custom picture framing. Just like no painting is like another, at our frame shop here in San Francisco we always look for individual frame designs. For Chagall’s Bella with […]
Fine Art Framing in San Francisco
Fine Art Framing in San Francisco at Underglass Custom Picture Framing: We loved picking this beautiful frame with our client for their amazing painting. The colors, the shape and the mood in this piece made it the perfect match for the frame. What a great addition for our client’s home! With decades of picture framing […]
Custom Picture Framing in San Francisco at Underglass!
Custom Picture Framing in San Francisco at Underglass. See our offer at bottom of this post! The first couple of months have been filled with wonderful art here at our frame shop in San Francisco. We’ve been so humbled and excited by the amount of art that our clients brought to us for framing and […]