This was an adorable colored pencil piece that was at home surrounded by the color of the oiled and varnished solid cherry frame and the delicate green painted bevel on the bottom-weighted mat.
The sweeping cloud strata in this image reminded me of wood grain, and all it took to push the natural color of cherry wood to a warmer place was some cherry-amber stain. Cutting a taper on the moulding gave new facets for the light to reveal, and a nice, generous...
I was honored to make the frame for this beautiful signed print of “Daybreak” by the English artist @fredphillipsartist. His website says “His atmospheric paintings are like half-remembered dream images, glimpsed briefly as we awaken”, and here we see sunrise slowly...
This is a picture of The Barringer Crater outside of Winslow, Arizona taken by my client with his iphone, then printed and stretched on canvas. This 4 foot wide canvas needed something substantial, both visually and structurally. A thick, deep, solid walnut frame with...
Black and White photos are a great time to use a gray stained hardwood frame. This is my concentrated charcoal stain on a 1″ maple cube frame (a cube is a square frame that has the same height as width). Maple is such a hard, dense wood that it takes a...
