The unscrupulous dealer had taken the frame he had bought for his own painting and put it on a painting by another artist. A well known artist visited one of his galleries unannounced and his painting wasn't hanging. There's a story I heard concerning painting sizes. That's a great landscape size just the same. When you hear hucksters on the radio advertising "over the sofa" sized oils, they mean a 24x36. Along the shore where there is a great expanse of distance I am likely to choose a wider shape. In the woods I am liable to choose a more square shape. Often times the proportion you choose for a painting is a function of how deep the view you are painting is. I have actually considered this summer only painting three sizes. Having interchangeable framing is real handy. You will save a lot of headaches by limiting yourself to six sizes. There's another Winterhalter, isn't that lovely? Shes a countess, looks real high maintenance to me.Īrtists I know often paint these sizes but you can't generally expect to find a premade frame for these sizes. There isnt really a standard size double square, but they are nice for panoramic pictures. Sometimes artists use what are called double squares such as 12 x 24, or 24 x 48, etc.22 x 28, Sargents usual non-portrait size.Here are some sizes that although less common are in routine use in the trade: That's a good thing for when you send it to a show or gallery where you know your paintings will be stacked by tongue swallowing interns. gold frames, you will be happy to be able to put the picture into a ready made frame. If you want to have custom frames made, by which I mean closed corner 22k. You should be able to find premade frames for those sizes from almost any supplier.
If you choose two sizes from each of these categories, one elongated and one more square, you will have six sizes. My friend from Maine, painter Scott Moore insists "if God had meant for us to paint verticals he would have placed one of our eyes above the other". Artists specify frames using the height first by the width, they would say for example, 24 by 36.
Here are some of the most common stock sizes for frames. The advantage of stock or common sizes is that you don't necessarily have to have all of your frames custom made, but can instead buy them off the rack. I suggest that you paint only about six different sizes and stick to stock sizes when you paint. I am going to write tonight about selecting canvas sizes on which to paint. I can't claim he has anything to do within tonight's subject but I like to show art in nearly every post.The images were, of course, provided by our friends over at art renewal. He paints flawless textures and I like his color. He has been derided as superficial and overly flattering to his sitters, but I have always enjoyed his technical virtuosity. I am illustrating tonight's posts with the art of Franz Winterhalter, who was a fashionable portrait painter to the royalty of 19th century Europe. Franz Xavier Winterhalter 1805-1873 Madame Rimsky Korsikov
0 kommentar(er)
