Local Custom Picture Frame Shop in San Francisco Celebrates World Animal Day
Today is World Animal Day ! With this wonderful watercolor of these two humpback whales we recently had the honor to frame, we would like to extend awareness of the celebration of World Animal Day. It unites the animal welfare movement, mobilising it into a global force to make the world a better place for […]
Fabric Mat And Traditional Frame For This Watercolor
When we frame fine art, like this watercolor, we love to hear what our clients would like the frame design to be like. We loved the idea of a traditional picture frame for this one, the texture of the fabric mat really gives it a nice touch! As always, we aim for museum quality and […]
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 […]
Wishing stones painting framed with multiple mat openings
These little watercolor pieces are paintings of the wishing stones from a wedding ceremony. We designed a custom picture frame with 5 openings, each with a double mat window to pull in the colors with a grey line from the under mat and a grey silver frame. Underglass Custom Picture Framing in San Francisco is […]
Ornate Custom Frame with Fillet for Watercolor
We can’t stop looking at this amazing watercolor by Kerry Konow @3paintedbirds ! We love how this frame’s motif plays on the beautiful feather embellishment in the art. This is a classic custom framing design with an ornate gold wood frame, a matching fillet and a satin black mat that perfectly picks up on the […]
What is sink float mounted art?
Look at this amazing small watercolor we just sink floated! To frame art in sink float style, all we do ist create depth with one mat that is mounted significantly higher up from the other mat and place the art right into that space that we just created. With this special technique the art floats […]
Elegant hand wrapped mats and hand carved gold leaf frame
Donna Schuster was an award winning watercolor artist born in 1883. She moved to California in 1913 and this painting is from that era. We used two hand wrapped fabric mats and a hand carved gold leaf frame to pull on the tone and keep with the period. We also love how this custom frame […]
Watercolor paintings in contemporary frame design
We framed these dreamy watercolor pieces by Kenyan artist @mumbi_muturi here in our San Francisco frame shop. Check out her dramatic and beautiful portrait photography, too! The teak frames added a bit of a softer contrast to the watercolor painings, and floating the art gives the frame design contemporary look.
Feeling spooky framing this crow!
Halloween is coming up and this crow from our friends at Creativity Explored here in the heart of San Francisco has us feeling spooky!! For this outstanding watercolor painting we designed a custom frame consisting of a thin black frame with silver accents for a bit of shine and some matting with a black bevel […]
Classic Picture Framing with a modern twist
We frame so many different pieces of art here at our shops in San Francisco and each photo, painting, canvas or object gets a frame that will be a good housing for the piece itself and also fit the clients taste and needs. For these three images we wanted to show you how a classic […]