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slemslempike) wrote2019-02-10 06:32 pm
slemslempike) wrote2019-02-10 06:32 pm
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One thing I have been vaguely intending to do for a while is frame some things so I can put them up. It turns out that most of what I have is an odd size, so I only managed to do these with frames I found in Primark sales and charity shops:
The one on the left was painted by one of the guards at my guesthouse in Amuda (NES), and is an illustration for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The one in the pink frame is a pen and ink drawing from Khartoum that looks like a scaffolding up a building with people swarming on it, the next is a watercolour from Eritrea, and the final one is Persephone bookmarks. I had been trying to work out what to do with these for ages, and I think it looks quite good. I have at least enough for four other ones like this, so next time I'm home I shall find a Home Bargains or similar and get some other frames.
Other things that need frames are:
* 5 Kate Beaton prints that are very awkward sizes.
* 8 black and white postcards of Nina K Brisley Chalet illustrations. These should be easy, I think I will get a bunch of postcard frames from Tiger or similar that match but have different patterns and colours.
* 5 slightly smaller than postcard size greetings cards with illustrations of South Sudan (done by Hannah Rounding). Can probably be postcard frames but might need to have a deeper "edge" than usual.
* A Matilda illustration proper print type thing that was a gift from my parents ages ago. This is in a mount and everything, I just need to get the right sized frame, which I feel should be doable since it's from somewhere "ready for framing".
* A handful of weirdly sized small watercolour paintings done for tourists from places like Zanzibar and Ilha that I like but are unhelpfully too small for postcard frames, and not quite square enough for square frames, and yet not worth the cost of custom framing.
* This print: https://www.ayqakhan.com/products/summers-over which I adore but is also oddly sized.
I also have a large Batik print from Eritrea, that I think needs a stretcher so at some point I will find out where to get that done and on past experience, argue with the framer that I don't care if it costs more than sticking it to some wood would, I want it stretched not stuck.
Next I have to work out where to put them, probably in the living room where my two larger paintings are, and of course my Greg Davies cut out (the most beautiful art of all), but the postcard sized ones in my own room. The Persephone bookmarks, when I have all of them done, probably need a blank strech of wall to be places down one on top of the other.
The one on the left was painted by one of the guards at my guesthouse in Amuda (NES), and is an illustration for Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The one in the pink frame is a pen and ink drawing from Khartoum that looks like a scaffolding up a building with people swarming on it, the next is a watercolour from Eritrea, and the final one is Persephone bookmarks. I had been trying to work out what to do with these for ages, and I think it looks quite good. I have at least enough for four other ones like this, so next time I'm home I shall find a Home Bargains or similar and get some other frames.
Other things that need frames are:
* 5 Kate Beaton prints that are very awkward sizes.
* 8 black and white postcards of Nina K Brisley Chalet illustrations. These should be easy, I think I will get a bunch of postcard frames from Tiger or similar that match but have different patterns and colours.
* 5 slightly smaller than postcard size greetings cards with illustrations of South Sudan (done by Hannah Rounding). Can probably be postcard frames but might need to have a deeper "edge" than usual.
* A Matilda illustration proper print type thing that was a gift from my parents ages ago. This is in a mount and everything, I just need to get the right sized frame, which I feel should be doable since it's from somewhere "ready for framing".
* A handful of weirdly sized small watercolour paintings done for tourists from places like Zanzibar and Ilha that I like but are unhelpfully too small for postcard frames, and not quite square enough for square frames, and yet not worth the cost of custom framing.
* This print: https://www.ayqakhan.com/products/summers-over which I adore but is also oddly sized.
I also have a large Batik print from Eritrea, that I think needs a stretcher so at some point I will find out where to get that done and on past experience, argue with the framer that I don't care if it costs more than sticking it to some wood would, I want it stretched not stuck.
Next I have to work out where to put them, probably in the living room where my two larger paintings are, and of course my Greg Davies cut out (the most beautiful art of all), but the postcard sized ones in my own room. The Persephone bookmarks, when I have all of them done, probably need a blank strech of wall to be places down one on top of the other.
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