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.

 

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.

In honor of the return of Damian Lillard to the Portland Trailblazers here are a couple of his autographed jerseys we've framed at Hangin'

Hand sewn on white mat with black and red double mat raised to the glass
and framed in our standard black angled shadowbox frame
with Conservation Clear glass.

Hand sewn on top of white mat with two openings cut with black undermat 
for an autographed photo and logo.  Rookie card is placed on top of white mat
with acid free clear photo corners to hold it in place. 
All under Conservation Clear glass in flat faced black 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

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!!

 

Have you got a concert poster needing to be framed? Check out one we recently finished of Trey Anastasio Band from September 25, 2022 at McMenamins Edgefield here in Troutdale, Oregon. We dry mounted this to a foamcore board in the vacuum heat press. It is framed in a traditional one inch black frame under regular glass.

 

Just in time to hang in his dorm room!! This Portland Winterhawks hockey player's jersey and medal were hand sewn down to a black mat board and shadow boxed with red inside the sides of the contemporary black frame all under Museum glass with 99% UV protection and reflection control that makes it look like there is no glass!!

 

This beautiful original pastel drawing of Multnomah Falls required a reverse bevel cut on the double mat. Framed in a traditional two tone wood frame featuring a deep purple with a tan outer lip underneath Conservation Clear glass with 99% UV protection. Such beautiful fall colors in this original drawing by a local artist.

 

Did you know that having an image printed on canvas can then be framed without any glass? This NBA player of the Portland Trailblazers reminded our client of his own family member in this stylistic portrait. We mounted the canvas in the vacuum heat press to foamcore board and placed it in a contemporary flat black frame with no glass. It makes it light as a feather (not really, but still lightweight!)

 

Hawthorne Bridge, Portland, Oregon by a local artist

A colorful watercolor painting of Portland, Oregon