I just found your blog through Alyson Stanfield. Your work is exquisite! I am enjoying your content, too. Thanks.
Karine

I am glad you did the second photo of the quilt - those colors are so fun. Gives me a whole different sense!

~ Diane Clancy
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog

If you have any picture processing software, you can create a more “readable” photograph. First find the contrast and saturation level function. Sometimes just bringing down the contrast and brightening it up can pop the image. Next try putting in a small element of fill light. It gives the effect of a flash but it is more controlled. Lastly, bring up the sharpness. Most digital cameras tend to flatten on the texture in images. You want that texture to show. I know your money is probably as limited as every other artist…like me. But it is well worth getting a one hour lesson from a digital design teacher to learn how to control the images you are sending out.

Love the detail in your work,
Cherie Hanson
Kelowna, B.C.

Olga and Cherie - thank for the ideas on framing - excellent ideas. Olga I’ll definitely check out that source. I have the most helpful readers - thank you.

Maybe you could mount/attach the paper drawings to a black foam board so they will still appear to be framed. I’ve seen little plastic hanger things that are attached to the back of a lightweight picture with double-sided tape at Staples or OfficeMax. You could easily present your paper drawings in a professional, cheap manner. Good luck!!

Cherie

Framing the drawings - one way of using re-useable frames which are not overly formal, but neat nonetheless (do not just stick the drawings up on the wall without frames - that really devalues them and you) is to use acrylic frames. I have found them to be ideal for my embroidery work - allowing the work to look neat, squared off, and contemporary. For flat work like prints and drawings, which is what my framer usually supplies to artists, there is a standard depth and so you could mount your drawings on a standard sheet of paper or card and just unscrew the top frame to replace.

The company I use is Design Animations http://www.designanimations.com/ Unfortunately their website is under reconstruction right now, but if you contact them they might be able to tell you of a similar company in the USA. I use their Arctic frame which is like a shallow box with a lid, which is the front. The frame is much cheaper than a normal wood or metal and glass, and is wonderfully light.