Leo & Linda
The client first got in touch via email, looking for ideas and outline costs for an interesting project: the merging of two similar-but-not-identical hand-drawn illustrations of a female and male lion. Following some further discussion, we arranged for the client to bring the work into the studio to agree the details.
With the two images not being exactly the same size, the challenge was to get them to sit together without looking clumsy or unnatural. We discussed a range of options and together settled on a double mount, the green inner-mount referencing the tones in the artwork and the taupe top-mount bisecting the images in a natural, neutral way.
One further challenge presented itself: there was a noticeable blemish on one of the prints, so the layout had to be carefully considered to hide this - hence the curved mount edges, cut with our Computer Mount Cutter (CMC) machine. Traditional hand-cut mounts are all well-and-good, but curves like this are nigh on impossible to achieve by hand.
A simple, gently-rounded light oak frame was chosen to complement both the image and its setting in the clients’ home. Everyone was delighted with the outcome.
“We had a pretty good idea about what we hoped to achieve, but the picture has turned out even better than expected. Nothing was too much trouble for Kevin, from answering emails promptly and comprehensively to spending ages with us at his studio holding up endless combinations of frames and mounts against the picture until we were happy. The curved mount was his idea and it works beautifully to frame the drawings and hide the mark. Can’t recommend TPF Studio highly enough.”
The finished piece
The two prints before framing
Aligning the images to the mounts
Time-lapse of the Linda & Leo mount being cut
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