ideas...?

Put your best foot forward and go with the maximum quality you can afford.

That may mean you have to go with a lesser number of images in order to showcase your best work with appropriate frames and not distract from it with much of the funky stuff.

Why do you have to fit in on that level? Did they say you have to use a "crafty" frame on some of your work? I can't imagine it's an important show if this is something they are dictating.

No.

Green Witch,
here is the link shewolf provided from last year's art show she's attending
this year...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rawartists/sets/72157626255462943/

Thanks, CJ. I don't see that the photos are "gussied" up. There seems to be various performance art, but the photos are in very simple presentations.

My most recent thought was to do the Joseph Cornell method of memory boxes, but that will still make the photo a collage. I would also post some of the photos from CJ's link, but the site won't let me. On the site the photos are in the classical black frames with solid matt or blocked on board. I don't see any framed in a more funky fashion:

That's nice. Both green witch and I have some experience in the art world. Shewolf can listen to us or not, as the art world does whirl. I won't bet against her jumping off and winning accolades, am for it.

But, sw, don't the **** concock some stupid frame for your photos.
If you insist, make it very stupid.

That's what I was trying to show her with the links to the framing departments on art supply store websites. It was for the simple ideas and inspiration, not for the actual doing of the framing as was assumed by Osso.

I have no answer to this, I've been to Michael's. Have you ever been to a good framing place, Bfn? I found the people at Michael's ignorant.
In my last hometown, the local engineering supply place was swifter re any of this.

I used Michael's once. Someone had given me a little 19c oil on canvas landscape and I wanted a simple gold burnished frame that would not be too expensive. The (very) young lady running the department tried to sell me a faux wood frame that had a built in puffy fabric mat with a print of chickens on it. I had to tell her "no" three times before she dropped the idea. I agree that framing is somewhat of a dying art, especially outside of large cities.

Back to this. I need a better understanding of who you are selling to. A real collector (as in someone with $$$) is not going to go for cute or funky - real collectors buy photographs that speak to them and don't look for a bonus prize in the form of a frame.

Thank you, and also to that guy in Ferndale - I'm supposing he is out of business by now.

If you do some black and white portraits, why not paste em up cleverly on a refrigerator door.

I wanted to do a set of portraits that were full body torsos from the waist up and paste them on the windows of an old beat up car . This would look like a portrait of a family that would be seen at each of the windows.


Ive seen the picture in the inside hole of a toilet seat, thats a cliche.

photos mounted within each pane of glass of a 6 over 6 window. Youd need 12 shots of a similar subject (maybe a study of an animal or a daffodil in various stages of growth flowering and then decay

Bless you for saying that.

(I'm off busy being negative.)

Okay, I like that one. It's a presentation package that could work.

Interesting, that you don't like my opinions. Yes, I can be negative.. I've owned a couple of galleries, and my opinions are just that.
Start your own, I'll try to visit.

Again, it wasn't about the quality of the place doing the framing. It was about giving some examples of framed photographs so she could maybe get some ideas to inspire her own -- nothing more than that. That's what she asked for -- some ideas and suggestions for some inspiration.

Coud u make a poodle puddle ?

I'm excited for you too Woman. I wouldn't know too much about framing - but if there's a possibility you can post up (orPM/e) any of the ideas you come up with - will give you an honest C&C of them - the framing is a bit like photography tho - it is subjective and your eye is the important one on what you consider works with your images. Do ensure you take shots of everything before you do the show - I understand each piece is individual - but if you have two buyers for one piece, then providing a similar repro may be worth your while.

Keep us posted... I'll send you incontinence pads nearer the time

love ya woman!



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I don't know if this is totally bleeding obvious, but I think really cool framing ideas could easily suggest themselves from each individual piece. Sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively or even cryptically.

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