The Framers Forum

Elphie Granger wrote:...as I've been sitting on this art and agonizing about choices for 3 months! I'm particularly struggling to decide on mat color.

"Aesthetic options please" is what Elphie Granger has asked for, I would be interested to see how others would frame this work

Elphie Granger wrote: I'm open to double matting, and I'm not terribly concerned about coordinating with my interior decor as I'll be moving in the next few months.

That makes it easier too

just for you david
and a bit more harry potter
Komodo
and James Idea

Graysalchemy wrote:Do you not mount photographs then either?

I cheerfully lump photographs in with watercolours! They are after all pictures on paper. And the conventional way to display them is in a frame with a window mount. (Or in a clip frame...) Don't think I've ever framed one, mind.

And I know a poster is on paper, and has a picture, but it never set out to be a "picture". The conventional way to display a poster is pasted onto a wall. The moment you treat it like a watercolour then you take away from the posterishness of it and - exactly as IFGL says - turn it into a picture.

If that's what somebody wants to do, then fine, I'm not stopping them. But they have transfigured them (Harry Potter reference seems appropriate here). I don't want to turn vintage posters into pictures. I want them to carry on being posters as much as they can. If it's a reprint, then it's just wall candy, so do what you like as it never was a poster in the first place. But an original poster is a piece of ephemera and so to my mind it needs a different treatment. I want to see the edges; I want to see every last square millimetre of it - otherwise it might be incomplete.

Obviously you have to do something more than just paste them on the wall, but less is more, and to me that means float mounting and a plain black frame. And a wide mount upsets the designer's proportions, so float mounted and an inch all round. It still looks like a poster - you can see all of it. It is still the same shape and size (broadly) as it was. But it can be hung up!

Elphie Granger wrote:I found this forum in the excellent book by Andy Parks, The Picture Framing Handbook.

Thought that name was familiar and that I had a copy of one of his books...

We are friendly bunch

Yes, a friendly bunch

I like the Komodo frame IFGL

If we were all doggies we would look like this....

I still prefer black & white

These are in my bathroom, the right one is a poster reproduced as a menu cover and I would not have a problem dong the original poster in the same way ... with a more sturdy frame, but same finish, absolutely fine. I like it so who gives a stuff how it "should" be done, especially if even the description of that makes me cringe!

Out of interest, what fixings did you use in/on the tiles?

Not what I'd advise to customers! I didn't want to drill so I just used two bog standard picture hooks each, in the grout.



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Knowing Robo probably a big dollup of silicon

Wide, flat, black. Robo is coming around to my way of thinking.

Big props for the grout line interaction as well as also.

The mount is artcare "Dark Marine" - a very dark metallic blue .............with some embossed lines.

We put similar looking frames and posters up in the gents toilets of and Italian restaurant chain

Roboframer wrote:The mount is artcare "Dark Marine" - a very dark metallic blue .............with some embossed lines.

Near enough.

I went a little OTT in the other direction (would have done a wider mount, but only had a play on my phone with the Larson Juhl page, and I couldn't change the border sizes!). I would also get rid of the white on the one - I did that without realising there was a white border on the initial image!

WOW - astonishing!

Who said window mounts are designed for watercolours?............

It was Jimbo ^^^^^^