Here are some paintings by the artist Melvyn Warren-Smith. The winter landscape above is framed in a scoop frame with two water gilded sections and a sludgy green paint which is distressed to show the red underneath. I made a sample like this nearly 10 years ago, more out of experimentation than anything else, and this is only the second frame I have made based on the sample. That is probably an indication that it is not very popular, but I have always liked the look of it, and it is certainly not something you would see everywhere.
The two fox paintings and the fire on a beach are framed in pretty standard gilded and painted jobbies, the one fox at the top is rather drunk on vino and old speckled hen.
