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Stencilled Ketubeh
This stencilled ketubeh was built up from behind with a foam platform to give it a hover effect, with a double circular cut mat with a generous shadow to keep the glass clear, finished with a silver leaf frame.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride Limited Edition Print
The print has a black oppressive border, that caused the piece to look too dark, so we went for a spiked mat cut motif to help brighten it up. The client ended up finding a neat little key and keyhole adornment which we form cut the matting for just a little more character, the matting was shadowed to make room for the key and was finished with a grey/blue distressed frame.
Cigarette Card Collection
Remember these? there are some hilarious themes to these cards. This series is a "How To" series, peppered with a bit of the atomic scare, complete with gas masks. Double matting with a distressed wood veneer frame.
Spoons
Spoon Collection! tipped onto a matting with a shadow mat to keep the glass away, finished with a warm silver frame.
Cigarette Card Collection
Another Collection, this one is a world military series.
Combat Knives
Floated in a shadow box, with a black frame.
Tin Can Tourist (1937)
triple matting with a black core mid mat finished with a metal simulated frame, with oak sides.
Superman The Animated Series
Double white matting with a lacquered grey frame.
Mickey's Gala Premiere (1933)
triple matting with a black core mid mat finished with a art deco styled black frame.
Clarence Gagnon 1881-1942
Liner with a reddish rust frame.
Learning Traditional Ways Triptych, 1978 by Norval Morrisseau 1931-2007
Black Lacquer floater frame
A. J. Casson 1898-1992
A beautiful watercolour, double mat, with a shadow, gold frame.
J. E. H. MacDonald 1873-1932
fillet, liner with silver/ black frame to finish.
Beach Picnic (1939)
Superman The Animated Series
Went for an iconic sort of theme, with the Captain Marvel lightning bolts. double matting, finished with an art deco frame.
Gene Hazelton The Flintstones Daily Comic Strip (1962)
Made to look as if it is hovering, the piece has been built up from the back, double white matting with a third black core mat, finished with a black embossed metal simulated frame, with oak sides.
2018 Winter Olympics
Another Olympics framing project, mat cut in a pagoda motif, triple matting with a shadow to accomodate the pins and simple black frame to finish it off.
Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn
Batman The Animated Series Animation Cel
triple blackcore matting with angular cuts, finished with a simple black frame.
triple blackcore matting with angular cuts, finished with a simple black frame.
Lilo And Stitch Mondo Print
Another piece from the folks at Mondo, had a good amount of fun with this one. The Client asked for me to make a miniature ukulele to compliment the piece, carved from wood, has frets, strings etc. With the hand carved waves in the matting to help encapsulate the instrument, which set it off quite nicely, went for a somewhat Hokusai styled motif. Has triple matting with a deep shadow mat, to accommodate the ukulele, finished with a mint lacquered frame.
Alano Edzerza Giclee
Double Blackcore matting with a shadow and finished with a red lacquered frame.
Original Disneyland TWA Poster
Framed in a shadow box with a with a red lacquered insert and finished with a creme lacquered frame.
Harley and Joker
Batman The Animated Series Animation Cel
triple blackcore matting with angular cuts, finished with a simple black frame.
triple blackcore matting with angular cuts, finished with a simple black frame.
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
This was an exciting piece to work on, an original drawing from the Snow White and Seven Dwarfs movie (1937). It was in terrible condition with acidic matting adhered to it and mounted on a millboard, had to undergo restoration work, removal from backing and matting, cleaned and lined. Once it was all spiffy looking we framed it in a double creme matting with shadow and a distressed copper frame.
Peter Pan Original Release Poster
Framed in a Shadow box with a distressed wood frame.
Nightwing and Robin
Batman The Animated Series Animation Cel
triple blackcore matting with angular cuts, finished with a simple black frame.
triple blackcore matting with angular cuts, finished with a simple black frame.
Interstellar Movie Poster
Double white matting with a shadow and finished with a grey/blue distressed frame.
Frank "Franz" Johnston(1888-1949)
Framed with a liner and a fillet insert, finished with a silver frame.
The Red Carriole By Frederick Simpson Coburn 1871-1960
Framed with a liner and fillet insert and finished with a traditional gold frame.
Chinese Calligraphy
Has an interesting story to involving a bit of selflessness on the part of our Client where he was gifted by a famous calligrapher and went all out with gold inlay handmade paper. (not enough room for the whole story) Framed with a double blackcore matting with a shadow mat and finished with a red lacquered frame.
The Trigon Five By Yorodeo
This is a neat one, get your 3D glasses out and revel in all of its splendour. Framed in a Shadow box with a rather high foam float, to give a true float effect. finished with a art deco silver frame.
Lark By Dan Hillier
Framed in a shadow box with a foam float and finished with a burnt wood textured frame.
La Cafetiere By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
This was our first time framing work by Monsieur Renoir, the painting is dated at circa 1900. Framed with a liner and fillet insert and finished with a ornate silver frame.
Luna By Dan Hillier
Framed in a shadow box with foam float and finished with a distressed wood frame.
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
Another print from the people at Mondo, Client had a stone carved plate with Mr. Toad's Face on it. Double matting with an additional hand cut shield shape protruding at the bottom with a shadow matting and distressed pewter wood frame.
Olympic Champ
Vintage Goofy Poster, Olympic rings shaped opening to house the Disney Olympic pins. Triple matting with a shadow to accommodate the pins with a matte finished black wood frame.
Canadian Forces Afghanistan Jacket
Had to deal with massive space constraints, but all in all turned out pretty good, required lots of folding! shadow box with a chesnut wooden frame.
"London Town" By Fuller
This was the first piece by Fuller we have had the opportunity to frame, hopefully not the last, you really can get lost in all the detail. shadow box with a squiggly black laquer wood frame.
Freeway Phobia (1965)
We had no idea disney released full sized posters for their many shorts, but here one is. We utilized an additional black core matting to extend the highway onto the matting, with a double white shadow matting for extra contrast and plexi spacer to raise the glass and avoid any fogging, finished with a brown/black lacquered wooden frame.
Spy Smasher! (1942)
Had some great fun with this piece, even found a matching pin on ebay, to help raise it to the level of epic! triple matting with fancy antenna cutout and an open v-groove, green mid mat for accentuation, finished with a distressed olive/ash wood frame.
Les Anges Nus(The Naked Angels-1969)
Grindhouse cinema in its prime, a classic Roger Corman, filled with biker bad-assery that we felt it our duty to reflect that feeling with this subtle shadow box styled framing, the piece is placed far to the back with an inner rusty styled frame capped with an aged tea stained wood frame.
Mary Poppins
Our first opportunity to work with one of the high quality Mondo Posters, their imagining of Mary Poppins done perfectly, we loved it so much we made a miniature replica of the umbrella from the original(bottom) and got all fancy with the mat cutting, emulated the scene where the umbrella is sinking into the clouds. Triple matting purple mid mat for accentuation, finished with a blue/grey distressed wooden frame.
The Rocketeer (1991)
Shadow boxed with an art deco styled inner frame and finished with a modern silver wood frame.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
An original Photo taken during their first visit to Toronto, double white shadow matting with a modern bevelled black wood frame.
Twiggy
An original Photo of the model Twiggy, double white shadow matting to protect the piece from the glass, finished with a modern, bevelled black wood frame.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The vacuum scene at the beginning of the movie, came with no background at all. So again we ended up creating one utilizing shots from the movie, it is of course not entirely accurate as the original background of the scene was a little too generic, we feel it improved the overall look of the piece. Double white shadow matting with a modern silver wood frame.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
An original japanese vintage movie poster. Double white shadow matting, with a brushed bronze wood frame.
The Flintstones
A fun piece to work on, the animator drew right to the edge of the paper, our client was dismayed until we came up with the idea to create the missing parts(left side) printed on cardstock and celluloid. double white matting with a fillet insert in between with a matching distressed brown wood frame.
Mickey Mouse Club Intro scene
Another created background, originally came with a hot pink background, went for a classic black and white motif, double white shadow matting to protect the piece, due to bubbling of the Cel, finished with a distressed pewter wood frame.
Fogo Island
a Triple matting with a stripe of navy blue for added accentuation finished with a distressed blue/grey wood frame.
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Original photos from the set of the film, and even came with an original painting for the font of the movie. multi-opening shadow mat with a modern brushed black and gold wood frame.
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