Framing Requirements

Acceptable

  • Solid wood construction

    • Gold, silver, bronze, black, brown, and single tone-stained wood frames, with or without gold or silver trim liner lips. 

    • Subdued, color-painted frames, for example: white, off-white, pale green, antiqued gray or blue, etc.

  • Since we are a plein air painting organization, plein air style frames are recommended, but not required (search plein air frames and click images for examples).

  • Plein air styled floater frames with a painted exposed edge of the panel or canvas. 

  • Paintings using water media, presented on paper or Yupo have two options for presentation.

    • 1. Surround the painting with a white or off-white mat, then place behind glass or plexiglass. Finally, place it in a frame using our framing guidelines.

    • 2. Seal the painting with wax and/or several layers of archival spray, attach to a solid surface, then place in a frame according to our framing guidelines.

NOT Acceptable

  • Plastic wood-like frames.

  • Metal frames

  • Roughly distressed wood frames.

  • Low-quality or damaged frames.

  • Picture frames with an attached fold-out easel.

  • Unframed, gallery-wrapped canvases.

  • Paper mats must be framed under glass.