PICTURE FRAMING TECHNIQUES

Enhance any picture you own with a beautiful, custom frame. Having frames professionally made can be very expensive, but anyone can do it themselves from pre-decorated moldings or by creating their own. Here you’ll learn to do just that.

Start with simple carpentry techniques. Then choose froma wealth of different paint and wood finishes, or try some of the many guilding methods shown.

Spectacular results can be acheived with tortoise shelling, faux marbleing, and graffito, used since the golden period of frame making in Renaissance Italy.

As you see various examples of finished frames, you’ll realize how the right molding, mat or finish can complement a picture, or even transform an ordinary image into something special.

More than just a way to showcase a picture, frames can be a work of art in their own right.

Color photos. Softcover. 176 pages.