A Pyrographic Frame

 

A Pyrographic Frame

Paintings to Fit


Interesting found frames are both a challenge and an inspiration for my paintings.  A thrift store find of a pyrographic decorated frame (detail above.) was a reecent starting point  Pyrography or wood-burning is a decorative process, charring patterns and images on wood or other substrates with a heated tool.  Typically pyrography is a handcraft technique, but this acorn and oak leaf design was probably hot stamped commercially.

The frame came with a print which I discarded and an oval glass cover. My first experiments with a painting to fit the frame were two watercolor sketches followed the frame's oak motif.  An oriole decending a tree branch, and then, a single oak leaf in autumnal crimson.

  

I found these to be boring and trite  The frame called for more color so I switched to painting in acrylic on a panel cut to fit the oval opening, "AJ in Blue," a little portrait of our great grandson on an ultramarine background.

d cover glass remain stored in the back of the frame retained by turn-buttons to allow future changes of display.


 

We'll visit other frame-stored alternative paintings I've done in future posts.

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