Framed study for Snow Space, 6 x 6, pastelbord
Path to the Sea, Framed, 6 x 12, Pastelbord
I promised I’d send an image or two of how I frame my paintings by floating the mat around them. Here are two that I picked up this morning. The black outline around the painting is a black mat that the board has been glued to (by my framer). The spacer was applied to the black mat and the white mat was cut to allow about 3/8″ of black showing. This can be done with two white mats to give a double matted look. Sorry I couldn’t seem to film these straight. The dark spot in the middle of Path to the Sea is me hovering over the picture! Not perfect, but hopefully you get the idea! I’m happy with the look of these. My larger pictures will be framed primarily with warm silver plein air frames.
Thank you for your recent posts. Your work is gorgeous! And of course the blogs have been very helpful. These paintings are framed beautifully. I wonder if you mat all of your work? Lately, it seems pastelists on the West Coast are not matting their work. I think that may be the result of what Richard McKinley wrote in his weekly blog a while back. But after seeing this blog, I may rethink the whole concept. The way your work is matted and framed is outstanding.
Margaret–I devised this style of framing in 2008 and I have to say that I had a lovely show–just as the financial crisis hit! I still think that this form of framing is really nice. But I tend to use plein air frames for the standards sizes now. They are less expensive, they make the paintings look like oils, and there is no worry about pastel on the mats. I really like the “silver” frames that I get from Hartford, the Hassam style. They are really a light, warm gold, rather than cold silver and they enhance the paintings nicely. For my current show, I’ve ordered 4 20 x 20 frames from Mountains Edge Frames and am looking forward to getting them. The company is owned by pastel artist, Deborah Paris.
Thanks Jean! You are a wealth of information!