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Dermot McArdle: December 2015
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Making some Picture Frames. Friday, 11 December 2015. Another gothic style frame. I've popped it over an old victorian print of "The Blackberry Pickers". And it does look rather good. The frame is obeche wood finished to mimic fruitwood and the gilding is watergilded 23.5ct gold. I'm not sure if watergilding is contemporary to this style of frame but it looks good anyway. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Quietly making picture frames, on a windswept hillside in Wales. View my complete profile.
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Dermot McArdle: April 2016
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Making some Picture Frames. Thursday, 21 April 2016. Making a Hogarth Frame. Here I've made the profiles and added the compo ornament to form the basic Hogarth moulding. Even though this would have been considered an inexpensive frame in it's day, reproducing it can require a quite disproportionate amount of time. This shows a small section of the finished frame. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Quietly making picture frames, on a windswept hillside in Wales. View my complete profile. Making a Hogarth Frame.
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Dermot McArdle: April 2015
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Making some Picture Frames. Tuesday, 14 April 2015. Birds Eye Maple and other veneers. Birds Eye maple was a popular veneer for frames in the Victorian and later period. It was particularly suitable for prints and drawings and often used in rustic styles of framing. The veneer is a very flat, hard and white coloured with it's distinctive birds eye pattern in clusters across the surface. Another veneer to use is Burr cluster Elm. Because of it's complex burr, there can be a tendency not to glue well on th...
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Dermot McArdle: Silver Gilding
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Making some Picture Frames. Tuesday, 7 June 2016. Here are two frames gilded with silver leaf. The gilding here is oil laid using a long drying oil to obtain the brightest finish. Creating a worn antique finish on oil gilding can be quite tricky and easily spoilt. There are no burnishing effects or leaf overlaps to show but sometimes these in themselves can be a bit of a cliche. Both frames are heavily toned and polished and then matched up to some very early watercolours. View my complete profile.
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Dermot McArdle: August 2016
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Making some Picture Frames. Sunday, 7 August 2016. Creating an Antique Finish. In this blog I would like to explore the challenges of re-creating an antique gilded frame. To describe a frame as antique is not only to recognise the style of manufacture but to see also the effect of age on the surface of the gilding. This effect we call the patina and it is in the reproduction of that patina that presents the greatest challenge to any framemaker. Frame - Richard Christie Antique Frames. Let us imagine a la...
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Dermot McArdle: January 2016
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Making some Picture Frames. Tuesday, 19 January 2016. Gilding on Oak, and other thoughts. This post is about my latest experiments to re-create the tone and colour of the gilding seen on frames held in museums and art galleries. I've shown this on a simple oak frame and superimposed it on a book print of a Pre-Raphaelite painting. After 24 hours the gilding is given a thin coating of clear transparent shellac. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Quietly making picture frames, on a windswept hillside in Wales.
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Dermot McArdle: Gilding a Pre-Raphaelite Frame
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Making some Picture Frames. Monday, 7 March 2016. Gilding a Pre-Raphaelite Frame. This was a rather exiting project to gild a beautifully made oak Pre-Rapthaelite frame supplied by Richard Christie Framemaker. Http:/ www.rcfm.co.uk/. Next was to stain and colour the oak so as to give it an antique appearance and this would show through where any of the gilding is rubbed back or worn. And the finish is then further protected with a thin film of resin varnsh. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Two sales o...
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Dermot McArdle: June 2015
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Making some Picture Frames. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Here again is a Georgian style frame, watergilded in 231/2 ct gold. The patination here is the result of many layers or glazes, carefully built up to give the best impression of age, wear and tear. Whilst I always thought it should be possible to copy the colour and tone of old gilding with a fairly simple mix of dyes and pigments, experience has shown me otherwise! This is a close-up where you can see the effect of distressing the outer edge. I suppos...
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Dermot McArdle: September 2016
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Making some Picture Frames. Saturday, 24 September 2016. And also a birds-eye maple frame with traditional Victorian gilded slip. Sunday, 11 September 2016. William Dyce, George Herbert at Benerton, 1861 detail. I've been making at lot of veneered frames and this one is of Bird's Eye Maple. The frame contains a watergilded slip that was traditional to this sort of victorian frame. The frame is polished with wax and this contrasts nicely with the dry finish on the gilded slip. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
