Exuding utter strength and beauty, the mighty white oak offers a hard and heavy wood. The medium light brown hue of this solid frame casts a slightly olive tint for a warm, natural color, and the surface is mildly textured by long, straight grains that maximize its form and figure. Featuring natural hardwood of an exceptional quality white oak, the frame’s clear finish allows the natural grain patterns to shine through.
Ideal for stretched canvas pieces (and not suitable for works on paper), the frame rabbet measures 1 9/16". A ¼-inch gap is automatically added between the canvas and frame to enable the artwork to “float” within it.
Custom framing for a stretched canvas is the crowning touch, and choosing just the right frame to elevate your piece comes down to making some choices regarding personal preference. There is a wide variety of options for framing a stretched canvas, so we’re here to help simplify the process for you.
The process of choosing the right frame for your canvas is an essential one, as the ideal frame serves to accentuate your art and the environment in which it will reside. It’s the finishing touch that elevates the value and overall aesthetic of your piece. But canvases come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, so selecting the frame that best suits your specific piece can be a daunting effort. Rest assured, we’re here to simplify it for you.
Innate organic beauty and strength—this is the hallmark of a solid wood frame grown and produced on American soil. Both infinitely versatile and individually unique, there’s a striking and simplistic quality to natural hardwood mouldings. It’s one of the many reasons why our American Hardwoods collection is so special to us, and why it continues to be popular among our valued community of art professionals and appreciators.
Oil painting as a medium is steeped in rich history and universally appreciated. It has served as the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for centuries—beginning in Europe and spreading around the world. Although the process of creation is often a slower one, given the time needed for individual colors or layers to dry, oil painting offers the distinct advantages of flexibility, richness of color and overall density. Today, oil paintings remain as relevant and popular as ever.
There are a number of different ways that a canvas can be framed and most choices that you make are based on personal preference. In this tutorial we will show 2 different ways to frame a canvas with a canvas float frame, otherwise known as a floater frame.
