New Art on Display

Our New Display is by Artists Lee Shapiro and Linda Watson.

Lee shares his residency  in beautiful Aspen Colorado and Hawaii
Linda is a resident of San Diego California.

These works will be showing from now until July 16th

H. Lee Shapiro
watercolorist

Linda Ellis Watson
Oil Paintings

Bronze sculptures by Mardelle Espinoza

 Also on display are simple ink drawings by Janet Stephens (above)

IT"S YOUR MOVE-a great idea for a game room!!

Take your favorite game and put it in a frame display-a fun idea your a game room!!

We had lots of fun with this one,  actually played a few rounds to find a nice layout.

We started with the black dominos, but thought some white ones would actually play out better.  So after a quick shopping trip to find white dominos, and playing a few rounds with my granddaughter, we were ready to get started.

 A piece of white fillet was tinted to match the coloring of the dominos and was placed on the bottom of the wall.   The perfect gold fillet to pick up the gold rivet that was in the center of each of the white dominos was used inside the frame.  The dominos were laid out on a piece of black suede mat board, and a nice black frame with just the right depth was used.   The project was put behind a piece of museum glass and here it is.

This is on display as part of our example wall and will be for sale to any one that might have the perfect place for it.

Another example of just how fun this can be.....  As you can imagine the possibilities are endless.

From the simple to the complex, stacking frames allows you to create exactly what you want!!!

   Make sure to go to the bottom of the article for more advanced forms of stacking frames together.


The usual way of stacking frame together is with the inside one fitting under the lip of the outer frame.

In this case the customer wanted the opposite effect.  Their desire was to create an effect that the inside frame was raised and the outside frame actually frames it.

Our customer also wanted to lift the inner frame up to add extra dimension to the inside frame.

So we had to come up with an additional frame to go inside the two frames for the purpose of holding it all together and creating that extra dimension (or lift) that this customer wanted in the inside frame.

We will call the inside frame that is just a 1/2" x 3/4" raw wood frame = the lift frame (left).
The outside frame is in the center of this photo and the inside frame in on the right in the photo.

The lift frame is cut to fit inside of the
outer frame.  This creates a way to attach the inner frame to it and creates a shelf for the inside frame to sit on allowing the inside frame to be lifted to the desired level.


The difficulty with this type of frame placement is that when you cut the outside frame it has to be exactly right in order to have it look like it is all one frame.  There cannot be any play in the size.   If over cut even one 32nd it will show when placing the two frames together and if under cut by that much it will cause the inside frame not to fit into the outside frame.

Voila and completed!!

Just what the customer asked for.



Here are a few other unique ways to stack frames.

 In this design we actually stacked a total of six frames together to get the effect we wanted.  Starting from inside out.
1.  gold fillet
2.  gold frame
3.  frame hand covered with fabric
4.  black shadow box frame
5.  gold fillet
6.  another frame for extra dimension.

Another seven frame stack:
from inside out

1.  small black fillet
2.  fabric covered liner
3.  fabric covered frame
4.  fabric covered liner
5.  silver fillet
6.  outside frame
7.  frame cut on side to add depth
(museum glass in under the silver fillet)

In this design we put a fabric wall in between the
stars and stripes frame, and the outside frame.

Stacked Framing with Museum Glass - Simple yet Stunning

It always helps to have a great photo like this one to start with.

This piece is a great example of how you can take more than one frame and 

stack them to show off your photo.

In this piece the inside frame is being used to keep the glass off of the photo, 

as you can see by the flash from the camera on the top.  I usually try to avoid this from happening while taking the photo, but in this case I wanted it showing, for two reasons:

1. To show where the glass was located within the frame.

2. So the beauty of museum quality glass can be shown  (as you can see if the flash was not apparent you would not even know glass was on it).

Mostly Abstract

We are currently showing Abstract Art by Gary A. Bibb and Janet Stephens.

"Jack the Hack" AKA Gary A. Bibb.

Janet also has many small Ink Drawings on display.

This show will be up through Mid April.

Abstract Art by Gary A. Bibb and Janet Stephens

Abstract Collage by Gary A. Bibb

Abstract Collage by Gary A. Bibb

a series of digital collages 
based upon vintage 45 rpm record cover sleeves from the 1950's - 70's.
By Jack the Hack Aka Gary A. Bibb

Mixed Media by Janet Stephens

Mixed Media by Janet Stephens

Ink Drawings by Janet Stephens

Kyle Michael & Kyle John

KYLE MICHAEL

His memory lives on

Portrait of Kyle, painted by me,
for his mother (my sister).

One of Kyle's 1st place Trophies, was framed with photos,
and a tee shirt that was printed by his riding buddies
and friends.  Yes that is sand the Trophy is mounted in,
and the poem (below) is in the neck line of the tee shirt.

A Poem for Kyle

KYLE JOHN

Jaime,  Kyle's sister recently had a baby and named him after his Uncle Kyle.
This is Kyle John Cox, with mom and dad.
Born on November 30th, 7lbs 9oz, 21"

A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR STATE PATROL FOR THE GOOD WORK THEY DO IN KEEPING OUR HIGHWAY'S SAFE.

This mat is painted with stripes like the patrol cars.

A silver mat was chosen for the main mat with blue underneath to go around the photo's of the officers.  A black mat was chosen to float the lettering on and mount the badges.  The stripes were spray painted onto the mat.  We made it fit a 32 x 40 size to keep it affordable.