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I've been asked by a friend to re-frame an original oil painting given to her father on his retirement. I guess this was sometime in the late 60's or early 70's, and judging by the condition, someone didn't like this picture very much! Here's some pics of the original I was given to work with. Later today I hope to be able to post a photo of the finished article. As stated in the topic, it's a damn good job she's a very good friend...

One thing that's not really visible on the pictures is the fact that the whole picture is badly bowed in the middle. Placed 'upside down' on the worktable, the centre of the picture is over an inch off the worktop! (After removing it from the frame!)

Here it is in all the gory detail....

Well - here's the finished article. Hopefully it'll pass muster with the forum - but more importantly I hope the client likes it. One point. I know it's an oil painting, and that it wouldn't usually be behind glass, but it was a customer requirement!

tim - excellent job - what a difference eh! I'm sure the customer will be very happy . Before we specialised in medals I had a customer who purchased mainly new oils and he always wanted a deep frame with glass for these (he and his wife were heavy smokers!!) sensible i think.

as an aside - did you photo this with glass in or out? i usually remove glass to photo although i know that you can use polarazing filter - but have never done it successfully with one!

The glass was in the frame - I used two lightboxes each at 45 degrees, set the white balance to match the colour temperature of the lights, and set the camera on a tripod so I could drop down to 100ASA. I think the exposure was 1/6th second at f5. And yes - a polarising filter was used. One day I'll get round to building a small 'set' onto which I can place completed frames for photographing, insead of balancing the picture on a couple of sheets of black core mountboard on top of the sideboard

Tim