This week a pupil from a local high school has been spending her work experience week at the workshop. These are three of the frames she has been working on, doing almost all of the work on them herself, showing great potential as a creative picture framer!
The top frame is a paint finish with acrylic size gilding in aluminium leaf. The middle frame is another paint finish. The process for these two was an acrylic primer undercoat on the obeche timber, then two coats of lime white, and then various diluted paint stippled and flecked on, they were finished off with wax. The bottom frame has been prepared for gilding in the usual traditional way and has had some pastiglia decoration built up in gesso.
