Once upon a time, I started a #blackandwhiteseries on Instagram to talk about ways to frame black and white art. And by art, I mean documents, prints, painting, photographs, whatever : ) The idea for the series sprung from a happenstance discovery of a vintage Picasso book, found during a cleaning spree.
For ages, the most common solution for framing black and white art has been to choose a white mat and a black frame. Like this… Yeah, yeah, the white in this example is closer to ivory. But the same rules apply. I matched the matboard to the paper. When you have art to frame, and …
Happy Thanksgiving, my American pumpkinheads! I am full of thanks for this – my all time favorite Jamie Wyeth painting! You are positively right. This painting is a bit more Halloween than Thanksgiving. But isn’t it fun? I don’t recall which museum I was visiting, mumble-mumble years ago, when this masterpiece first caught my attention. …
* I’m trying to use the power of self-affirmation to make all this okay : ) For my idea of how Framing Godmother can best benefit my fellow picture framers, for that idea to work, videos seem to be key. The thought terrifies me. But I’m gonna do it! Ta-da! Upcoming Framing Godmother videos! …
Vincent van Gogh created art so far ahead of its time, that we still haven’t caught up. On a recent trip to Pennsylvania, I had the good fortune of seeing two of van Gogh’s Sunflower paintings. The first, an original, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Two days later, I viewed a 3D-printed reproduction of a similar, …