Boxes and Frames

Going to Mom's this weekend and she needed a couple of boxes for people to flip through her photos for sale. We will also be making some stretch canvas frames.

Well, we will be stretching the canvas anyway. The frames are built and she wanted to not use the standard sizes that can be bought anywhere. I have never made an artist's frame before, though it is quite simple. Neither of us has stretched canvas and put the gesso on before. It will be a learning experience. Maybe someone else will want to buy some if I can figure it out...

The boxes are just made of luan sides and bottom. I cut the corner detail out of some scrap cypress and used 3/4 plywood for the foot area. She will paint it. The boxes are 9x11x6.

I hope she sells photos out of the boxes.

This is the finished products. Pardon my ignorance on the "frames". I was corrected at my mother's gallery place. The uncovered "frames" were called stretchers. The dark spots on the stretchers is a little water to help shrink the canvas that is stretched on them. The first couple did not turn out very good. but after that they turned out well. I got wrinkles out before staples were put in. When I say wrinkles, I mean major wrinkles not little ones that could be taken out by water. I also got rid of wads of fabric that I somehow bundled on the corners.