♪♪
I'm Daniel
Carrillo and I own this frame shop Gallery Frames LLC.
We do picture framing
and I also do some photography on the side.
I love painting processes and older type photography
processes, and that's sort of what I specialize in.
(air spraying)
Ideally, the frames sort of would work with the piece
and not try to compete with ours.
We're trying to keep it to
a minimal amount of attention, I guess.
It's just how it highlights the artwork.
And I mean,
these see the artwork and not the frame, you know.
Not everybody's a big fan of white frames, but
this does work
really well with this because it is so colorful
and you don't want to add any additional colors.
I feel like
you don't want to compete with it so that the artwork stands out.
And again, nice, simple presentation, very clean,
you know,
focusing on the artwork and letting that shine.
This calls for sort of a light, light
touch as far as the color because of the blue.
You know, I'd probably pick something
on on the silverish side.
(drill grinding)
This is the sort of thing that comes in all the time.
It's an older piece that probably looks like
the '60s, and it's framed pretty badly.
The oil from the ink is starting to migrate
onto the glass from off gassing,
and if you pull this glass off, it'll actually
have a ghost image of the actual print on the glass.
There it is, free from the clutches
of the horrible environment that it was in.
So it actually is in pretty good shape.
I guess my favorite part about it is the artwork,
seeing all the artwork,
different types of artwork, seeing new work
that's going up that nobody's seen before.
It's exciting to see
artists can bring in new stuff,
galleries bring in new stuff that, you know,
it's never been seen before.
(air spraying)
Okay, so some framing dos and don'ts.
The don'ts don't have your artwork
in the direct sunlight.
You don't want sunlight.
You don't also want glass sitting directly on your art work.
That's a big no no.
Don't expect artwork that isn't rolled up to lay flat.
And photographs and ink-jet photographs,
any type of photographs, should be handled
with gloves or by the corners.
All right.
So some do's of framing,
you want to stick to archival materials and techniques.
You want to keep your framed artwork
in a climate controlled environment,
and you want to use UV
filtering glass or acrylic when appropriate.
And you want to frame your
artwork as soon as possible to keep from getting damaged.
So when it comes to framing,
don't overthink it and keep it simple.
♪♪