Framed Thirteen

acrylic and ink on canvas, Tina Fanning

For this week's Thursday Thirteen(go here to participate and read other blogger's "13's"),
thirteen things I have framed this week(at the frame shop).

1.) The painting at the very top is mine and I was able to frame it in a cast-off "floater" frame(the frame is very basic and actually doesn't cover any of the image) that was being thrown out because of a banged up corner. A few dabs of brown wood marker, and I have a frame for free(a perk of working in a frame shop). I am entering this(with two other paintings) into a show this weekend. This one is kind of the "throw-away" one of the bunch (kind of cartoony, so who knows what the art association will think of it), so not expecting that it will be accepted, but ya never know....


2. ) A Low Anthem CD Release Party poster, framed in a simple black frame




3.) Vintage 1974 poster in a black metal frame(I would say 75% of the frames we use are...black)





4.) And...yet another black frame, but a blue-black distressed style, with an added silver "enhancer" that I thought perfect for this painting(that the customer found on e-Bay for next to nothing--he collects circus art)
and had to hunt down from a warehouse in L.A.(according to the frame supplier, we got the very last stick of this moulding).



5.) Isn't this lady of long ago just gorgeous? She reminds me of Madonna...




6.) Have framed this one a few times...




Detail from Australian aboriginal art....

7.) Here's the whole thing(tried to show the frame--which I thought echoed the cross-hatching details in the painting). This one was unusual in that we see and frame a lot of aboriginal art from Australia(seems everyone has been to Australia but me!), but this one has a "cross-hatched" technique and the majority have a "dot" technique.

8.) A detail from an 1895 map of the area

9.) Lilacs oil painting by George Furbish

10.) Detail of painting(of the North Lighthouse on Block Island) by Burl Dawson(another local artist whose art we show and sell).

Didn't get to get photos of these:

11.) A boring poster for an event at the U.R.I. College of Business to discuss the state's public employee's pension crisis...framed in a ...you guessed it!--black frame.

12.) another a picture, which I was about to take a photo of because it turned out so well(if I say so myself)--a watercolor of Japanese Maple leaves on a branch with a striking blue grey mat and black and red bamboo frame. Just as I was getting it out to photograph, the owner of the art walked in the door to pay for it and take it home.
That was a satisfying job--a really good design that I and the customer were equally happy with.

13. A moldy old photo print of Mount Washington that I *think* the customer paid too much for in a junk shop, probably thinking it was worth something(just because something is old does not mean it is more valuable). He liked it enough to re-frame it(in a weathered driftwood-y frame) and we got a framing job out of it, so everyone was happy.