Framing Options + Painting Titles [9]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Framing can be a challenge for us all. It’s expensive and there are so many options. If you paint on board or canvas, is it necessary? If you do decide to add a frame, what style works best? Today we’re going to delve into this topic, discuss our own approaches, and share some inside tips. We consider buying pre-made frames, having frames made online, and working with a professional framer. The discussion also covers cost and profit concerns and how to balance those with the desire to present your work most effectively.
We also talk titles after a listener asks: “How much importance do you attach to finding a good title for each painting and which comes first - the title (theme?) or the painting?” We discuss the importance of titles to our work and how we each approach them.
Finally, the decision to purchase a small painting leads Louise to re-visit her attitude to selling and Alice is feeling grateful to the people who help us with our art.
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| 0:00.0 | So either you can't delegate this stuff at all or we're just control freaks. |
| 0:04.8 | Yeah, it's definitely an asset. Welcome to episode 9 of Art Juice, behind the scenes conversations about making |
| 0:19.4 | art and the creative life with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. Today we're going to talk |
| 0:25.9 | about titles we're going to talk about framing but first of all let's talk about |
| 0:32.1 | what we've been working on this week. |
| 0:33.7 | So Alice, I know you've had a busy week, so why don't you start? |
| 0:37.1 | I've had, I've got a lovely story to tell you later too. |
| 0:41.2 | I have had a very nice week so I'm getting ready for Surrey contemporary art first |
| 0:47.2 | so by the time this goes out that will be finished I can tell you next week how it went. |
| 0:59.0 | I always feel a little bit apprehensive in advance of events and I've got over that hump and I'm now in the stage where I feel excited about it and I love I love the fact that I have now got enough experience that carries me through the feeling nervous stage because I know the feeling |
| 1:13.4 | exciting stage is going to come and the feeling exciting stage happens |
| 1:20.4 | when you really start getting all the work ready to hang and show. |
| 1:25.0 | So yeah, as I mentioned in my newsletter, I've been doing the three Fs which are finishing, |
| 1:30.5 | framing and photography. |
| 1:31.7 | Sorry about the bad spelling, but it's audio. |
| 1:33.7 | Now, do you enjoy that part? |
| 1:36.7 | Because I find all that quite laborious. |
| 1:40.6 | I quite like the fact that it's I don't have to think so hard maybe. It's just like a |
| 1:48.6 | list of jobs to do I can put the radio on it feels quite satisfying getting through them. I love the framing |
| 1:55.3 | parts, love the framing part. And the photography is, yeah, I've been doing that today and my house. |
| 2:05.0 | It's totally turned upside down because I've got some larger pieces. |
| 2:10.0 | I find it much harder to find space within a house to put them. |
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