This fun shadowbox holds a custom made fishing lure featuring the University of Oregon's logo. We had two plaques made to go inside and framed it under Museum Glass with 99% UV protection and an anti-reflection coating. The background and inner sides of the shadowbox use a black mat all in a contemporary black frame that is deep enough for the almost 2 inch height of the lure.

 

A black frame only can be really beautiful if you change up the profile and make it glossy. This poster of the bridges over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon shows how a glossy frame with a deep bevel can elevate your art from a plain black metal frame.

 

A beautiful sunset photograph of Pacific City, Oregon. We mounted in the heat press with Preserve Ultra which is acid-free and fully reversible with a single mat in an etched black metallic finished wood frame under AR glass with 78% UV protection and anti-reflection.

 

Check out this cool three dimensional map of Oregon. It's made of plastic so there is no glass on it. We put it in a white washed rustic thin wood frame to accent the beauty of the different colors.

 

We get some amazing art in the shop that celebrates different areas around Oregon and Portland!

St. John's Bridge, Portland, Oregon
Double matted, regular glass in a bronze metal frame.

Crater Lake, Oregon
Preserve Ultra mounted, double matted, AR Glass, opaque green angled frame.

Map of Oregon
Preserve Ultra mounted under AR Glass in a thin rustic wood frame.

Watercolor of Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon
Grey wood frame only with AR Glass.

Peter Iredale shipwreck Oregon Coast
We added a new top mat and framed in a grey rustic wood frame 
under AR Glass.

Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast
Preserve Ultra mounting in a rustic black frame
under AR Glass.

 

Portland, Oregon--Bridgetown
A print showing 9 of the 11 bridges crossing 
the Willamette River. 
Preserve Ultra mounting with a single mat 
under regular glass in a thin rustic black frame.

The Astoria-Megler Bridge in Astoria, Oregon
A large photograph preserve ultra mounted with a single
mat under Museum Glass in a brown wood frame.

The Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport, Oregon
A large photograph preserve ultra mounted with a single
mat under Museum Glass in a brown wood frame.

Necarney Beach, Oregon (on photo)
(Neahkahnie Beach)
Vintage photo reproduction preserve ultra mounted with spacers
under AR Glass in a brown rustic frame.

How about the same poster framed in two different frames? These were brought in a week a part from each other by two different clients who had gone to the same Pearl Jam concert here in Portland, Oregon on May 10, 2024. The first client used a wooden frame with a dark blue metallic finish, while the second client used a wooden frame with a green metallic finish. Both posters were preserve ultra mounted that is acid-free and completely reversible. Museum glass which is 99% UV protected with an invisible look to minimize reflections was used on both posters.

Dark blue frame

Dark blue frame

Green frame

Green frame

One of the fun parts of custom picture framing that the clients rarely get to experience is the thrill of seeing each element of the design being added. Clients usually bring in their unframed pieces and then come back to pick up their completed frame jobs.

Picture one is the art after its been mounted in a vacuum heat press onto Acid Free Preserve Ultra mounting board which, by the way, is completely reversible.

Picture two has the acid free double mat added.

Picture three has the frame laying on it without the glass added.

Picture four is of the completed frame job after the glass, paper and wire has been added onto the back of the frame.

It's such a lovely view of Mt. St. Helens from Scappoose, Oregon.

We're only half way through 2024 and look at all the different maps we've framed this year!! Some are religious, topigraphical, of rivers, of train lines, of wineries, of Disneyland, of Oregon and Portland. Some are small and some are narrow and some are huge!! But they're all interesting!!

 

Here are some wonderful pieces of landscape art that we've framed. Whether they are paintings on canvas or a print that is matted and framed under glass, we've seen some gorgeous landscapes!!

 

In honor of the Juneteenth holiday, here are some beautiful pieces we've framed over the years.