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This frame was something of an experiment, but I confess to be quite chuffed with it. The original remit from the client was for a coppery gold like one I had done before, but I couldn't remember exactly how I did the one before. Anyhow, I had a large frame nearly the right size that belonged to the same client that was in for repair. (Don't stick blutack to gold leaf. ). I couldn't touch it up, so I was due to refinish the whole thing. So I took this frame, removed the existing liner and chopped down about an inch. I used the back of the frame as the face (it was bare wood) and planed off most of the rebate. Added a very narrow hockey stick to form another rebate for the new narrower bevelled liner. The moulding itself is about 4 1/4" wide and just fitted in the Morso.
Next I covered the whole face with a thick coat of ripple paint (tinted with Burnt Umber powder pigment). Stood in the middle and rotated while using a comb to add the radiating texture. When that was dry I gave the whole thing a coat of dark brown. I got some copper gold powder which was just the right colour (I thought), but it seemed to loose it's metallic lustre when mixed with varnish and came out a a bit manky. Eventually I gave it a going over with a very pale gold, which combined with the manky undercoat produced the required effect.

Looks a bit like it's wrapped in fabric.





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super job - came out well - how big is it ? looks quite sizable.

Interesting image - she must be dancing !!

Love the texture and how it radiates from the picture, like to actually see it not sure the photo does it justice.

David.

For once I looked at the picture before the frame!

Looks great - you can't beat an original frame - but my wife points out that it looks like it will be difficult to dust! ( she's far too practical!)

Glad to see the chesterfield is being put to good use storing corner samples . . . . . .

Fabulous - painting (is it one of your own?) and frame.

hey prospero

how long would it of taken you to do this frame.

Do you commonly get clients prepared to pay for the real costs of jobs like this?

Roboframer wrote:Fabulous - painting (is it one of your own?) and frame.

Alas, I don't own the painting neither is it one of my own. I get to paint far more interesting things - like trees and fields and bunny rabbits and trees and whatnot.

Painting is 1m sq btw.