🎨 "Heavy Metal" - a not so heavy way to frame a painting
Contains mild nudity...
Mistyped it first so it read "nutity"... Ok, that too 😜
As many of you might already know by now, for each one of my glass painting originals, I build a handmade frame. Over the years, I used a variety of materials. Of course, a lot of wood, but I also made frames in stained glass and a smaller number out of metal.
One of the earliest was actually put together from a copper roof gutter. Squeezed it into a slightly different shape and welded the corners together..
For this next one, I used very thin copper pipes, like one uses for plumbing. Part of the pipes were covered with tin.
Another one made from copper. This time I mostly riveted the pieces together, but there was also some welding.
The frame for "The Spy" was made form titanium zink. That material is relatively "soft" and in order to get a riveted look, I mostly nailed the parts to a wooden structure inside.
The next one looks simple, but it took a lot of experimenting to get the surface on ordinary sheet metal. The glass painting is connected to it only by two small mounts on the top.
Also hammered it a bit, to give it a really "used" appearance.
The last example doesn't look like it fits into this row. But it really is made from metal as well, aluminum, to be precise. I painted it, but if you look closely, you can see the rivets.
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