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A bare naked lady......

Outer: Rose and Hollis A235 painted Burnt Umber/Black acrylic mix.

Panel: R&H A243. Joined upside-down. Painted White acrylic with dabs of Burnt Umber wet blended.

Inner: R&H A241. Powder gilded over Red Oxide acrylic.

Liner: R&H SW9504. Painted White/Titanium Buff mix and lightly sponged with the mucky water that the brushes are rinsed in.






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Prospero,
What a cracking design......and the frame is nice too!

prospero wrote:lightly sponged with the mucky water that the brushes are rinsed in.

Bottle it with a posh label and sell it.

Super job there!
That shows me I have a long, long way to go......!
John.

Fantastic stuff.

Never mind the art in the frame the frame is the art.

I've got the bench built at least and pleased with it, just need to make a start.

A couple from today - I hope it's the photo but this doesn't look right to me now - unequal spaces. Anyway it's the presedential chain of the National Dairymens' benevolent Institution 1847-2009.

Moulding Simons 5412-7008 - which is silver and not gold like it looks, Arqadia dark blue suedette board which also lines the foam board spacers. Nielsen Clearcolour plus UV glass. Mounted with tags, stitches and melinex straps. Oh, and I told them I'd write out the bit in the title aperture in calligraphy, but they insisted on an engraved plaque - trouble was it was done so it had to be orientated landscape - portrait would have been better and I did explian that before they had it done - ah well)

Below is one I would have had to be beaten in to doing on my oval 6 - (what am I talking about - it wouldn't have fitted on the turntable - it's about 39x30"!) table plan for a wedding - laid out just as the tables will be, top aperture has rounded corners, 5 mins or so to plot. Alphamat brushed silver board

My Son's design, he is 9 years old. I think he has a future in this game.

Dave

Naval cert of competency - it looks crooked because it is crooked! It's on parchment and had been folded in to a tight box shape - the creases are 'W' shaped and the conservator I use didn't want to know, so I encapsulated it and framed it warts and all, to show both sides.

Moulding Arqadia 221 737 004 with matching slip between a double mount. UV glass on front.

More double sided - self-explantory what the artwork is
Moulding Simons ARN-1with tiny antique silver slip - many do it but Nielsen's ref is W11044 - UV glass on the front again.

Very interesting bit on it though - lady that brought it in owns a huge amount of agricultural land around here. Main business is a PYO farm with a farm shop. Jack Cohen (founder of Tescos) was at the birthday bash and gave her a written order, on the menu/programme, for a shedload of sprouts!!!

Marathon medals - Chicago and Berlin. Moulding Arqadia 221 737 005 with matching slip

Larson Juhl Confetti with alphamat artcare 'Olympian blue' and 'Jonquil' double mount. Ear defenders included in price.

Yeah that's really errrrrr.....great John.


But tell me, do the lights go on and off when you use the Morso?

And what are you using for braces?

Oh - the bungee - well spotted

As mentioned on another thread, I have just the one spring on my Morso at the mo' - and this worried me ....

Mark Thornton wrote:You need to get those new springs on NOW, if you carry on using it the remaining spring will break as all the weight of the cutting head is now been supported by only one spring and the blades will drop all the way down - suddenly.
Count your fingers - hopefully you've still got ten, if you carry on you may have one less soon.

Mark

Give me six!

This topic is getting a bit long now. All the photos have to reload every time I check it out. Maybe worth considering a new topic for each fabulous framing job or two?

Is that a daft idea???

I realy thought you were joking about the bungee , when you have a spare pair, all greased up, wrapped and boxed

Yeahbut - it's finding them - and then fitting them, well, one of them, or maybe I should replace both and keep the old one as a spare. The Morso stands on a 'tray' we made so that we can empty it like a fire grate. It's a pain lifting it off and on, which we'd have to as where it is there's no room to get behind it.

The way things are work-wise I think I'm looking at about Feb - maybe I should back that bungee up in case the other spring goes?

Roboframer wrote: P\apyrus float mounted with pass-through hinges - black foamboard glass spacers - moulding = Simons 'PALE 0003'

pyramids papyrus.jpg

I did one of those - exact same, but with a wide ash moulding (customer insists on the same frame every time )