Weekend Framing

Day 1 of the framing and mounting course and I finished the below piece. This is a screenprint I had done as a trial run at the Artsmix workshop. We planned and cut our mounts for size, cut and joined our frames, lime waxed the frames, cut glass to size, positioned and attached the print/photos to our back panel which we'd cut to size then after cleaning the glass put it all together, fixed it with a tab gun then finished the back with tape, fixings, and felt bumper pads. Very happy with the end results.

Day 2 was focussed on mountings, thinking about size and colour and layout for multiple pictures in a single mount. The below picture of a penguin in Antarctica courtesy of Andrew is double mounted with a main grey mount with a white core, the feature mount in black with a black core. This feature mount really brought out the penguin in the picture.
A couple of tools and techniques were then demonstrated such as circle and oval mounts and we created 2 smalls samples - a foam biseaux frame and another which had a more complicated pattern around the corners. Multiple mount was the order of the rest of the day - see further Antarctica pictures below considering colour and placement of the pictures and how to approach cutting the mount, especially avoiding reverse bevelling. Great fun and today I've ordered more equipment so I can really get going on this sort of thing now for me or others. Already got a commission for a large frame!