Welcome to Logan’s new DIY Picture Framing Blog!
An ongoing resource library for all sorts of tips, stories, and useful information for at-home picture framers. Check back often as lots more will be added in the coming weeks.-
Recent Posts
- Secrets of Object Box Framing
- How to Mount a Watercolor
- Tips for Working with Production Stops on Your Mat Cutter
- Essential Tools For Glazing When Picture Framing
- Cutting a V-Groove with the Trim-and-Tape Method
- Presentation versus Preservation: The True Meaning of Conservation and Archival Framing
- Mounting Pastels or Charcoal Drawings by Using an S-Hinge
- The Crucial Importance of a Squaring Arm in Mat Cutting
- How to Get Perfect Corner Joints When Building a Picture Frame
- Trends in Matting Design
Archives
Categories
- Answers to Common Picture Framing Questions
- Building picture frames
- Color and Design
- Do It Yourself Picture Framing
- Framing
- Framing Canvas
- Glazing
- Insights into the Differences Between Models
- Mat Cutting Techniques
- Measuring for Picture Framing
- Mounting Techniques
- Picture framing as a business
- Tips for Improving Your Results
- Uncategorized
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Adding Decorative Ink Lines to Your Mats
Matting enhancements like decorative ink lines are distinguished from other creative matting techniques in that they involve enhancements to the surface of the mat rather than variations on cutting the window. They can stand alone or serve as launching points … Continue reading
Posted in Mat Cutting Techniques, Uncategorized
Tagged decorative ink lines, matting, picture framing
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Sorting Out the Differences in the New Simplex Mat Cutters
If you are considering buying a mat cutter, a Logan Simplex Mat Cutter may be just the thing for you. Perhaps you know someone who owns a Simplex and is pleased with it, or perhaps you’ve heard good things about … Continue reading
Posted in Insights into the Differences Between Models
Tagged Logan, mat cutter, models, new, simplex
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How to Use a Floater Frame to Frame Canvas
Many artists who work on stretched canvas prefer to use a floater frame when framing. A floater frame is fundamentally different than a typical picture frame in that it loads from the front rather than the back. When the canvas … Continue reading
