How To Frame Your Own Art
THIS BLOG IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION! This blog has been created for my students and others who want to learn how to do their own framing. I am not a professional framer, however my framed work has been accepted and exhibited in many fine shows, galleries and art museums, and I have developed simple methods to frame my own work, which I will share in this blog. My framing has evolved and I have accumulated specialized tools which make the framing process easier and more professional-looking, however most of these processes can be accomplished without them, but with a little more effort. Specialized tools I have include: Portable Point Driver for picture framing, along with flex points Mat Cutter (for works under glass) Offset clips (with screws) for affixing frame to stretched canvas Framer's wire (I use 16-ply large spool) D-rings (to affix the wire to--do not buy eye-hooks as they are not very stable) Brown backing paper (I buy large rolls of brown paper from ...