Avebury Sheep - framed and due to go to London

Avebury Sheep has a frame (a lovely deep rebate oak number from Moonshine) and will be visiting London with me tomorrow, where I will abandon it to the tender mercies of the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition judging panel.

Eek.

Some more framings

I need to do some varnishing (acrylics) and probably a bit of "oiling out" (an interim measure for the oils, involving putting a thin layer of linseed oil over the surface), but here are a few recent applications of frames to two paintings and one drawing...

Watership Down in the Snow: Framed

I chose a green frame for Watership Down in the Snow. Well, a grey-green. It's Farrow & Ball's Lichen, as supplied to me by Moonshine framing in Penzance. The idea was to pick out the green tint of the valley floor under its melting snow.

I've used this image as my Christmas card this year.

Happy Christmas!

Stormy Poppies: Framed

It took me a while to frame it (even after I was in possession of the frame), but here is the very first Poppy painting in its Pavilion Gray Driftwood frame. (Pavilion Gray is the colour - it's a interior decoration paint made by Farrow & Ball. I didn't paint the frame; I ordered it in that colour.)

SOLD

Fireplane in a frame ... and in an exhibition!

I recently submitted a few paintings into a local Open Exhibition and was fortunate enough to have had Greenham Common Fireplane selected for inclusion.

Botallack: Chimney: Framed

Botallack: Chimney gets the medium wax driftwood frame; another Cornish subject for another Cornish frame.

Godrevy Lighthouse 2: Framed

Driftwood seems like an apt frame style for this seascape. I opted for the limed white option here, thinking that it might echo the froth on the waves. This is the second version of Godrevy Lighthouse from Gwithian beach; the first has a frame due to it, too (the same type), but as that painting already has a new home, I only have the frame in my posession at the moment.

Cannon Heath Down (7): Framed

I'm quite excited; today, I received a large, flattish parcel with four frames in it. They've come all the way from Cornwall (quite fitting, considering that the other three frames are all destined to surround paintings of that glorious county). The frames are all from Moonshine Framing's Driftwood range; this particular one is the clear wax version.

Welby Church 1: Framed

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(Original Welby Church post)

What do you think of the choice of frame? I quite like it - nice and broad, simple (like the subject), and the yellow wood seems to pick out the sandstone of the church. The frame was, ahem, a sale bargain. The subject was serendipitously on my list of things I wanted to paint, and when I was considering what size and shape to make the painting, I remembered the little canvases that fitted these frames. And the colour of the frames...

DIY Framing: Framing a Canvas

Canvases are not difficult to frame. The main practical problem is sourcing the specialist hardware; canvases are usually deeper than the recess in the frame and so need some sort of angled clip to keep them in place.

Donnington Castle, 2002

This is an old painting - 30 July, 2002, to be precise. It's of Donnington Castle, a civil war ruin near Newbury. Not to be confused with Castle Donington, a village in Leicestershire with one less "n" and some sort of motor racing track (and a "Monsters of Rock" music festival). The castle site is a favourite picnic destination - and it's where I went with the children today (on another unseasonably hot day), hence the appearance of this post now. The painting - an early plein air knife painting - was the first that I was ever happy enough with to want to live with it. It still took me a while to get around to framing it, though... it was about 7 or 8 years, I think.