Framing Suggestions and guidelines
Framing suggestions and guidelines
When you are having a photo to painting canvas created
for you, a selection needs to be made regarding framing. "Paint my picture
and frame it too" was the more popular request so we offer one-stop
shopping so your art is ready to hang right out of the box. But we are in the
photo to painting business first, not the framing business, so we do offer
canvas paintings totally un-stretched and unframed, shipped rolled in a tube
for either the budget minded, those handy enough to do their own stretching or
those wanting a type of frame we don't offer. "I want you to paint my
picture, then let me put it into a frame that's been in our family for a long
time." We understand, and that's fine with us.
A recent popular choice has been the museum-wrap,
where your photo to painting canvas is stretched with 3/4" of canvas with
mirrored image wrapping around the sides for a clean, contemporary look. It
comes with the wire on back and is ready to hang right out of the box. "When
you paint my picture I'm not sure what I want to do." Then the
museum-stretch is good because a frame can be added later but it can still be
enjoyed now. The museum-stretch costs less than our traditional quality wood
frames, another reason this is a popular photo to painting choice.
"When
you paint my picture, I know I want one of your nice wood frames, but can you
help me know what to pick?" Your photo to painting canvas will have a
dominant set of colors that will help lead you in the direction of one of our six
colors, and the size painting will help determine whether small or large
profile will be best. " After you paint my picture I'm pretty sure which
room it will hang in, does that help?" Yes, the other consideration
besides the localized color in your photo to painting is the primary colors of
wall and wood furniture tones there are. "Please
paint my picture and just use the cherry color frame." You won't be alone,
it's our biggest seller, next to the chocolate and graphite.
We have recently taken a hard look at our overall pricing structure, for both paintings and the optional framing. Even though we periodically run sales and specials, we could see that due to a gradual cutback in consumer discretionary spending we were not selling as many of the free, no-obligation proofs as we would like. So we have established new "Value Pricing" across the board. This means that whether you choose just the painting itself, or both a painting and a frame, you will save an average of between 30 to 40% everyday over our previous price levels. Now that's a real stimulus package!
And a word about whether to choose the small or large profile frame for your painting. A general rule of thumb is that our smaller sizes, 11 x 14 and 12 x 18 will look better, that is more proportional with the small profile (about one inch wide) frame although the large profile looks good also. The two largest standard sizes, 24 x 36 and 20 x 24 look better with the large profile wood frame (about two inches wide). The middle size, the 16 x 20 looks good in either one although I prefer the large profile. There are occasionally customers who choose the small profile frames even for the largest sizes, it just depends on what you think will look best in the space you plan to hang your painting in.