From the Framer's Table

I would like to welcome you to my blog for Cornerstone Custom Picture Framing and Gallery. As a framer and gallery owner I get to see such interesting artwork everyday, and would love this chance to share some of it with you. Also, I hope this will bring awareness to the art and craft of the framing process itself and give you ideas of how to frame your own special artwork and memorabilia.



Thursday, January 6, 2011

Grouping Artwork

Grouping pictures is a great way to bring together artwork, photographs, and those strange miscellaneous items we all collect that inspire us but we can't find a home for. I had a bunch of black frames destined for the garbage can and an assortment of art, art cards, and pages cut out of books that I wanted to put together on a wall at home. I unified the grouping with black frames, and cream coloured matting. This is a really easy, economical way to decorate a bare wall. The mat borders are not all even, but who cares! No rules here. You could mix up the mat colours for a fun look, or play with spacing the art in different ways. If you had a group of artwork that was more formal, there is no limit to beautiful custom framed groupings with more traditional and symmetrical layouts.







Here are a few more pictures from the web of different styles of groupings. So if you have a big bare wall at home, consider a grouping instead of one big piece of artwork, you'll be glad you did...and keep collecting, because its easy to add and subtract art as you journey through life!



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