What are you working on?

[Iain]

It's looking great!

 

[Desforges]

Love it Jocelyne!

Now Lily is making a point

 

[Desforges]

Working on be-in

 

[snoball]

Not your "Blue Period", I think it is your "Hasenpfeffer Period". These all need to be hung together.

 

[Desforges]

Not your "Blue Period", I think it is your "Hasenpfeffer Period". These all need to be hung together.

Lily is finished
I may touch it up !

 

[Artyczar]

It's amazing! Can't wait to see the next one finished. I even love it as is.

 

[john]

She should have taken the seeds out! Those suckers are burning and popping all over the place!

A fun unashamed bunny. I love it.

 

[john]

I think I finally figured out the hardest thing about being a painter. How to frame the paintings. I have had store bought, hand made, custom gold, wood, black, none, combinations of the above etc etc. All of these were on the walls. With abstracts and landscapes and portraits of fish and twigs. We have a small living room.

Maybe I've been inside too much but it all started looking cluttered, garish and well, a bit eccentric. Like my current brain I now want the walls more minimal and uncluttered. Climate catastrophe symbolism is bad feng shui or something.

So after much thought and research I'm currently liking a simple chestnut wood stained strip frame. Nailed to the stretcher. 1 1/2 inches deep and the face is 1/4 inch wide. Easy for me to make, unobtrusive and with every painting in the living room framed the same way there will some consistency. The wood looks nice. It works well with landscapes. Right now all I want in the living room is landscapes. And only my "nice" ones. It feels like I'm giving up to mere pretty. Conceding a partial victory?

But I wish I had painted my three oil canvasses all the way to the edges at least. After framing I had to carefully fill in all the blanks. Fun color matching exercise.

I'll post a photo or two after they go on the wall.

You guys worry about the framing thing? I guess for pro/commercial it's different?

 

[Artyczar]

I only worry about framing when it comes to work on paper or thinner canvases, and only when it comes to displaying them for exhibition. Otherwise, I usually work on a thick edge. The canvases are a couple of inches thick and I don't mind if some of the paint gets on that edge. If they get dirty, I'll sometimes re-paint them white, and very rarely I will wrap the paint around the edge. I don't do it often because it's really up to the buyer how they want to frame it, or not frame it.

The works on panel are also a couple inches thick and have a nice wood finish on the edges. I'm careful not to get paint on those. But I do paint all the way to the edge of all my works.

With the 3/4-inch canvases, I will frame them with a simple maple edging and a black background that floats the canvas about 1/8 inch all the way around the edge-so you hardly see that black background. It's attaches to the stretcher--probably like what you are talking about.

With work on paper, the most expensive, I float those in a nice maple frame so you can see the edges of the paper. I'll look around for some photos to show you some examples.

Yes, framing is a bitch!

EDIT:

Here is what I mean about the thinner canvases 3/4 inch:

Thicker canvases:

Work on paper:

Work on panel:

 

[Artyczar]

I'm still figuring out sketches for the next five paintings. I've also been preoccupied with other personal stuff, but I think as of this weekend, I have my plans in place now and all I have to do is redraw everything onto the surfaces I'm using. I'm doing three oils and two larger watercolors, and these are the scribbles for them. A couple of them you've seen already:

last is an abstract portrait format:

 

[laf.art]

Lily is finished
I may touch it up !
View attachment 7670

Lily is wonderful

 

[snoball]

I generally paint a compatible color on the edges of a 3/4 canvas but I feel it is up to the client to frame it because most people want a frame that goes well with their decor. I usually send these with the painting.

 

[Artyczar]

Great tip sno!

 

[Desforges]

I never paint the edges. I generally use thin maple frames like the ones that Arty uses with a space so they are ready to hang. Later they can change them or buy one at the gallery if they sell them.

 

[john]

Thanks for posting those pics Arty. I like how all those paintings are presented. I also really like how they look as paintings. Something about being on a wall makes them more real, rather than just an image on the monitor. I'm on the fence about the floating frame look. It's a little harder for to make and I'm not sure it looks any better than a plain strip frame. I know it's currently in favor so maybe it's just me.

Anyhow this how I'm doing it now for the landscapes. I'm going frame the watercolors this way also with them mounted on board and varnished with acrylic. No glass.

...and from now on I have to paint to the edge. Now I need to correct it because those clouds ending there will bug me. Pay no attention to the clouds on the right edge.

 

[Maybenartist]

That is one provocative rabbit!

 

[Maybenartist]

Your two landscapes look good, John.

 

[Maybenartist]

Your paintings in the gallery setting are most impressive Arty.

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you John and Mabyen.

 

[Desforges]

Must be impressive to see all your work hanging in one room. The Colors and the mood and the scenes that are so representative of where you live. Love love love Carol.