frames

Frames are always a challenge.  Every year I seem to design make a different kind of frames.  This years painting were unique so it is natural to make new sorts of frames.  With less than 2 weeks till my show opens, it is certainly frame time.

 

I have used urushi and most of the other materials before, but this was the first time I used kiri wood to make frames, the tall rectangles in the center.  The paintings were done on 100 year old wood recycled from Japanese buildings, using kiri wood seemed natural.