framing

What to Consider in Choosing a Frame for your Artwork

What to Consider in Choosing a Frame for your Artwork

In this video I share the most important considerations when choosing a frame. After completing your gorgeous painting you don’t want to choose the wrong frame, so it’s important to take some time and figure out what type of frame will suit the painting best. Your frame should enhance the artwork, not be a distraction to it.

How to Mount Works on Paper onto a Cradled Panel

How to Mount Works on Paper onto a Cradled Panel

This week I’m not going to inspire you, challenge you or even make you chuckle. I’m going to tell you how to take a work on paper and get it on the wall without spending a ton of money at the framers, and still achieving a result that looks like quality.

Just FRAME IT!!

Just FRAME IT!!

On reflection, this process of decision making and being stuck and stalled in indecision has given me renewed insight. I see this in many artists who ask my advice about their paintings. They are stuck, they have a hunch on what they should do, but they need affirmation that this is the right course of action and they lack the courage to act in case they ruin the work.

Substrates.... & Finishing

Substrates.... & Finishing

I love the idea of us all facing the same decisions as we inch our work closer to its’ completion. We start, we push paint around and we finish. The beginning and end of that process is what I will deal with here.