This huge mirror needed a new frame, and my client picked a classic wide cassetta frame. Traditionally it’s black paint over red or terra cotta with the black rubbed through to show some red (like my Antique Dutch Black frames), but this guy was only...
How satisfying to give an old piece a new, more protective home. The antique Asian bookplate was in a frame that had fallen apart and under a mat that had cause acid burns to it. The thin chamfered profile was stained in a cherry color, then milk painted in a...
Dentin Garrett makes whimsical and poppy digital art (NFTs), but this was an IRL work on paper using marker and paint. He wanted me to make my whitewash maple cube frame and add a sky blue accent on the inner lip, a detail you would only see from an angle. The...
This is a Chinese silk embroidery of two Koi fish. The mounted silk panel has a mat with a hand-drawn ruled line around the opening in a custom mixed plum color to accent the color on one of the fish. The frame is a stamped “stripey” frame in pink over...
This is a screenprint by Tanline Printing based on a vintage tourism advertisement. It’s framed in a scoop frame with a top bead that was gouge carved at the corners, then scratched and distressed with a wire brush, then painted in a light green milk paint,...
