torstai 29. lokakuuta 2015

Frame this


I had some pictures that needed framing, so I took some measurements and headed off to a flea market in hopes of finding fitting frames for cheap. I came home with three frames that suited my needs as I was planning all along to repaint them, for them to better match their intended pictures.

I had this paper bag with the motifs that appear in Tove's Jubilee mug illustration.
I cut the images out and carefully removed the handles on the back side of each image and framed them individually.

Taking a peek on the backside of the wooden frame reveals it to be originally from Ikea. This frame was the exact size I needed, I barely had to cut the image to make it fit. I was trying to match the color of the frame to the flowers on the right side, lower corner and I think it turned out pretty good.

With this, my reference for the frame's color were those blue flowers in the picture. In reality, those flowers are more like a grayish light blue in color and the frame is plain light blue, even though I really tried to get some gray in there. The reason for those white flowers along the sides.... I accidentally scraped off a tiny area of paint so that the original white color showed underneath. I didn't have any of the blue left and I didn't want to go through the pain of mixing it again, so instead I covered it up with those flowers.

The (plastic) frame looked nice as it was in silver, but a golden frame just looked better for this Ian McCaig's concept art of Queen Amidala, that I've printed out.

..... and with the leftover paint from mixing the colors for the frames I painted this (and right after, I really could have used all that blue color.....).

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