...pictures, that is...
A wonderful local bake shop, Lady Fingers, will be hanging my dessert paintings. The shop has a shabby chic feel to it, so I wanted my frames to match. Since these are prints and they will be for sale as they hang, I wanted to make them affordable. Matting and framing can cost big bucks, even for prints. I was lucky to find a batch of matching frames with mats at Michael's this week. Only problem was that they were a shiny platinum finish- not exactly Shabby Chic...so I painted them! I first did a coat of gesso and then painted them with titan buff color acrylic paint...and now they look much better and will fit perfectly. I also don't have to charge a fortune to cover the cost of mats and frame- the best part!
Being the anal-retentive boo head that I am, I also covered the back of each frame with pretty paper and hung with eye screws and picture wire, so they are ready to hang...
frame before with shiny finish
frames after I painted them with Titan buff.
1 comment:
How cleverly obvious, but not thought about - to paint those dark frames with Titan Buff! What a GREAT, simple idea.
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