Framing
A portrait is never truly complete until it's properly framed. The professionals at Walcott Studio are trained and qualified with decades of experience in photographic art and custom framing. They are dedicated to giving you complete satisfaction. Express in your framing the same mood and sensibility that the artist expressed in creating your portraits.
Framing portraits is itself an art form. Surrounding a portrait with the correct combination of frames, mats and fillets can vastly enhance it. Coordinating the framing with the décor of your home or office draws your eyes to the image and creates a sense of importance. This is because proper framing completes the artwork.
The professionals as Walcott Studio are trained and qualified with decades of experience in photographic art and custom framing. They are dedicated to giving you complete satisfaction.
When selecting framing, consider the following:
Fundamentals of Good Design...
Proper framing should compliment, drawing your attention to the face or faces, allowing you to continue to focus on the subject(s). Artwork can be vastly enhanced by surrounding it with an attractive frame that harmonizes with the artwork and coordinates with the décor of your home or office. Proper framing draws your eye to the image and creates a sense of importance.
Your Décor, Lighting and Mood…
While artists use many different tools to express themselves (form, content, lighting, subject, etc.), likewise framers must consider the psychology of color and have an understanding of proportion, balance, and mood. A portrait is priceless art, and the frame is a piece of furniture to enhance the artwork and your décor. Consider your decorating style (Traditional, Victorian, Contemporary, Country, Southwestern, Modern, Retro, Early Attic, etc.) and select your framing to compliment your décor. Matching wood colors is not as necessary as selecting a frame that compliments the portrait and follows the rules of good framing.
Color and Proportion…
Walcott Studio focuses on the aesthetics of good framing. Colors and proportions should not be reduced to the same option for every portrait. There are as many different interpretations of the art of framing as there are different families and homes. While there is no single answer, it's certainly true some answers are much more visually appealing than others.
Selecting color for matting and framing is a matter of narrowing down your color options by discarding those colors that will not work. Lighter colors tend to project, while darker colors tend to minimize or recede. Next select a frame or frames. Try to match color tones in the portrait, or look for a shade that exists in the artwork and draw on it.
Determine where your portrait art is to be displayed. How much space is available and from what distance will your portrait be viewed. This will help determine whether matting and framing or just framing is most complimentary.
When selecting proportions, remember that all borders do not have to be the same size. Consider the composition. Here we sometimes bow to fashion because wide borders have become something of a rage in recent years, especially in the presentation of photography. To achieve this, the width of the matting and frames should support, rather than take away from, your art piece.
The Lasting Qualities...
All 8x10 and larger portraits created at Walcott Studio are carefully mounted on an archival backing. This backing prevents harmful "acids" from damaging the portrait art. When selecting a protective covering for the portrait, you don't have to settle for the usual thing anymore. Non-glare glass addresses the problem of glare but adds a soft cloudy look, loosing definition and causing darker colors to look milky. Museum glass offers superior clarity while reducing glare and provides 97% ultra-violet (UV) protection. Another popular finish, "Sandstone," reduces glare, provides minimal UV protection while maintaining clarity, and offers a more three dimensional appearance.
Check your schedule and call 920-623-3460 to reserve a time to discuss your framing project.