5 Day Course

Course Time: 9:00am – 5.00pm

Materials Required; Ruling Pen, Corner Gauge, Inks, Watercolour Paints

This course is designed to take the framer into the more detailed area of Mount Cutting & Decoration to offer clients, that little bit extra and something different.

COURSE CONTENT

·	Mountcutter set up and maintenance. Refresher on mount size calculation, basic mountcutting, single mounts, double mounts

·	Refresher on basic line drawing

·	Use of fillets and slips and deep bevel fillets and foam core covered fillets

·	V Grooves and Inlay mounts

·	Multi-Aperture Mounts and Multi Sided Mounts

·	Oval Mount cutting, using Fletcher 1000 Oval Mountcutter, Oval Inlays and V Grooves

·	Shadow mounts, Sink mounts, Combination mounts, Straight and Curved Lines

·	Use of Self Adhesive details on mounts / fabric covered mounts

·	Decorative Corners Mounts

·	Cutting extra thick / museum mountboard, i.e.. 2000 Microns and above

·	Wash lines and panels, 5 Band, using line and wash, paints, pens and powders, calculation of line width, position and techniques for decorative effects on mount surface, e.g.. stenciling

·	Hand finished mount decoration, using Everest Paints (This offers your client the chance of a ‘One Off’ hand finished design, along side the ‘One Off’ hand finished frames (Separate Course)

·	Review of Fine Art Trade Guild Mountboard Standards and 5 Levels of Framing

·	Questions, Answers, Problem Solving, and extra time to cover any element, or extra element the student wishes

Required Reading:

·	The Art of Mountcutting, published by Fine Art Trade Guild

·	Conservation Framing, published by Fine Art Trade Guild

·	GCF Study Guide, published by Fine Art Trade Guild