Thursday, April 16, 2015

An Adventure in Staining

I just recently got around to glazing the companion piece to the painting I did in my last post. Since both paintings were done I needed frames. Not having a lot of money I thought about going the second hand route but because they are companion pieces I really wanted them to have matching frames.


So I got these unfinished frames and decided to stain them myself.

They turned out beautifully!  


 I picked out a stain colour called American Walnut. I wanted something like Cherry to bring out the blue green of the paintings and I think it was a good substitute.



It really brings the paintings to life!

Fire & Ice and Warm Flame by C.nick, 2015