A giclée print Alright so this is an artist who actually paints on carpets and that’s why you’re getting that kind of an image on here. I can’t tell you where it was done but this is, so this is a giclée. A giclée is a scanned image of...
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A Custom Frame So, this particular piece is a drawing of a house that was built in 1900. The client brought it in, it’s an ink and coloured image, brought it in for us to frame. The client wanted to create a situation where he was using some of...
A Carborundum etching by Pierre Marie Brisson Alright, so this is another piece by Pierre Marie Brisson from France and you can see the stick figures. As somebody said, chicken scratching by a doctor or by me, because my handwriting is a little bit like that by now. What...
A Pastel Sec painting by Stephen Lack Alright, so this is what is called a Pastel Sec, a Dry… Just imagine a thick crayon, a really thick crayon, it’s pastel with oils in it and it actually works like that. The advantage, is that you actually see texturing in...
Plein Page We were talking earlier about ‘’plein page’’ – French for full page. This is an exaggerated impression of what ‘’plein page’’ is. What we’re looking at here is handmade paper, much thicker than normal and with much rougher edges than normal. The artist, Pierre Marie Brisson, was...
A Frame For a Photograph Alright so now is a photograph taken by Joe Donnelly. Unfortunately, he is no longer with us. What I wanted to do with this was to make the greens that are in there as well as the reflections of the water drops as strong...
Looking through the window So now we are looking at a photograph taken off the coast of the Portland, Oregon coast. It’s quite special for me because Bill Stirewalt, the photographer, who took this is a good friend and this is an exquisite photograph – a platinum print. So,...
Framing a Cambodian rice gathering tool With the concept of 3 dimensionality – well…… Let me first tell you what this is. This is a Cambodian rice gathering tool and it came out of Cambodia. It’s a tool carved out of wood with a piece of metal attached to...
Framing of a 3D object What we haven’t discussed yet is framing objects framing 3 dimensional objects what you’re looking at here is a sand dollar. 1st of all, hard to find ever find one that is whole young friend was free diving and she brought it up for...