Framing A Bay Area Artist’s Original Drawing
Red Guy by Bay Area artist @keithcamr0n ! Keith’s art involves drawing comics and cartoons, go see his TheMOLDYshop on @etsy and support this original queer San Francisco artist. We framed Red Guy in a rustic dark wood veneer frame, keeping it warm and floated the drawing on a charcoal mat. For best viewing and […]
Creating A Custom Frame For Antique Wedding Photo
We recently framed a series of a client’s family photos collection here at our San Francisco frame shop. We loved the sepia tones in this amazing wedding photo and while we love the antique, classic feel for the photo, our client wanted a touch of modern. So we offered a beveled walnut frame with a […]
Framing An Unfixed Charcoal Drawing
We mounted this unfixed charcoal drawing on canvas in a floater frame and stacked a hammered frame and added a silver fillet for an extra highlight. To protect this delicate art in its new custom picture frame we used a museum quality framing acrylic! We love the art of custom picture framing and get excited […]
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 […]
Conserving Prints and Paintings with Museum Quality Frames!
When we get prints and paintings to frame we want to conserve them and we still have the choice between so many custom frame designs! From ornate to contemporary frames, with endless color and shape options, with or without mat and many more factors to consider. We love all the art we get to frame […]
Custom Frames We Just Finished This Week
Our custom frame shops here in San Francisco are busy! This week we finished building frames for a beautiful, delicate glass sculpture that was completely broken to pieces in shipping. We were able to reassemble the entire piece and create this deep shadowbox to show respect to what is still an amazing piece! For the […]
A Custom Frame For Contemporary Art
We really love framing contemporary art! For example this eerie, dreamlike art by Mark Ryden : We wanted to frame it in the best way to continue the mood and feel in the painting with an ornate frame that has depth and texture and compliments the colors that the artist chose for his print. This […]
Unconventional Framing with Traditional Japanese Woodblock Style Frame
We are honored to be sought out for conceptual projects like this! For this very sentimental, exceptionally rare, unreleased, holy grail of Pearl Jam poster we had to come up with a very special custom picture frame. We wanted to pay tribute to the traditional Japanese woodblock style frame with an embossed black silk mat […]
Poster Framing: Aimee Mann Tour Poster from 2002
Tour Posters are a great way to remember our favorite music moments! We loved this Aimee Mann 2002 tour poster and used an old Hollywood style/ Art deco pattern picture frame to play on @realaimeemann hair and keep the fun vibe. This concert poster is now framed so it can be enjoyed and protected for […]
Big Bold And Strong
Big, bold and strong are the colorful characters by Argentinian Artist Sebastian Curi. We admire this Illustrator’s work and wanted to complement our client’s limited edition Yoga print with a museum quality conservation frame design. So we kept it clean with a white on white design and played on dramatic proportions using a chunky frame […]