Picture Types Guide
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This guide is intended to summarise the main types of picture, and try and provide some useful guidance as to what frames may look best for each type.
Posters, certificates and some photographs.
Amongst other image types, are often "self contained" visually, which means that they may not necessarily need a mount. A mount may still benefit some images, and offers a greater degree of protection by keeping the artwork away from the glaze.
All works on paper and many textiles need to be glazed to keep them clean.
Watercolours, Gouache paintings, pastel works, valuable photographs and other works on paper.
Need a glaze to keep them clean, and a single or double mount to keep them from touching the glaze. Plexi-glaze is not ideal for pastels, charcoal or chalk drawings or anything else with migrant pigment: the static from the glaze can attract the pigment. Please be aware that if you order an oversize glazed frame, it will be supplied with plexi glaze other than by special arrangement.
Visually, original works and many prints need to be finished off with a mount and frame, which serve to separate the image from the surroundings and give it definition and depth.
Oils and acrylics on board or canvas.
Do not need glazing, as they need to breathe, and if dirty, they can be cleaned. The colours and textures of the paintings are more vibrant as a result of the lack of glaze. Having no mount to form part of the visual space around the image, Oils generally benefit from a more substantial frame.