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The trick with floating pastel works is hinging the art on the back without disturbing the art from pressure on the face. I always like to say there are never any “stupid” questions ?įloating frames are a terminology for a L shaped frame for canvas to seat into it whereas a shadowbox frame that uses glass would be appropriate for floating works on paper so that they have space to breathe and create an effective shadow look. Mitchell Jones Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 11:57 am.I look forward to hearing what you think of this whole framing business! Please leave your thoughts below.
PASTEL ART HOW TO
If you’re a do-it-yourselfer, then you know what you need, a bit on how to do it, and what you should and shouldn’t do.
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You may just want him as your framer too!) The main outcome I want you to have from this post is to end up with a framer who understands your needs and listens well AND at the same time can guide you to options you may never have thought about or even imagined! I consider myself very lucky to have found the knowledgeable, patient, and generous-with-his-time Mitchell. (And of course, if you’re in the Victoria or Saanich areas here in BC, Canada, be sure to drop in and have a conversation with Mitchell at the Peninsula Gallery. Please let me know if it was useful and what kind of questions you’d like to see answered in our next session all about the aesthetics of framing. The comments section here on the blog is the best place to record your general thoughts about the video and this post. I encourage you to add your own questions over on YouTube where Mitchell will see and answer them. Dang! If you go to YouTube, however, you’ll find a lot of questions in the comments about many of the things we didn’t cover and you’ll see Mitchell has kindly answered them. However, with exhaustion beginning to kick in, we didn’t remember everything we wanted to cover. Our third time around, we created short videos for each topic (which I later spliced together) to make sure each video worked. Right, time for another take. So we recorded the whole thing again…only to find that the camera had captured hardly 5 mins of video!! ARGH. We set up to record and away we went…only to find that the microphones we were using had stopped working (or at least the sound became static-y) soon after we began recording.
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Mitchell and I waited until the end of the day, when the Gallery closed, to make our video. – The best way to present your piece to your framerĪ bit of behind-the-scenes story before I wrap this up: – Ways to decrease the possibility of pastel dust on a mat – Thoughts on framing your pastel up against the glass? (eek!) – How and where a painting will hang affects everything Some of the topics we cover in this video are (and you may be surprised by some of Mitchell’s answers to my questions!): You’ll know what questions to ask and the kind of answers that you can anticipate and that should be forthcoming.
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(The next one will get into the aesthetics involved in framing.) It will prepare you for your next visit to a framer – whether a new-to-you person or your regular framer. This one focuses on protection and presentation of your soft pastel paintings. Yay! (Thanks to my friend Julia for making the initial suggestion to do this.) As a person deeply interested in educating the public about the wheres, how’s, and whyfores of framing, he said yes. Recently, I asked my framer Mitchell Jones if he’d consider creating an educational video or two all about how to frame soft pastel paintings. So let’s get to framing! Such a BIG topic! ( Click here to read an older post I wrote about storing your pastel paintings.) This keeps them safe from the possibility of smudging and moisture yet the images are fairly visible. So today, we’re going to dive deep into how to frame soft pastel paintings.Īn aside before we get started, until you get them framed, keep your pastel creations flat, preferably covered with glassine paper (I like glassine because it’s acid-free and fairly transparent). A piece can be smudged (and changed dramatically) if left uncovered or at least where fingers other than yours can get at it! That pastel pieces need to be protected before putting them on display is probably the main downside to using pastels (and it’s a biggie!). Pastel paintings need to be protected…that’s just the way it is.