Students must have passed the GCF Examination
& be Members of Fine Art Trade Guild to take Examination

2 - 5 Days (Depending On candidates Individual requirements)

Course Time: 9:00am – 5.00pm

(Materials Required; Ruling Pen, Corner Gauge, GCF Advanced Study Guide)

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, and to acquaint the framer with requirements for the GCF Advanced exam

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, Oval Mount cutting,

·	Multi-Aperture Mounts and Multi Sided Mounts

·	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

·	Review of Fine Art Trade Guild Mountboard & Framing Standards

This course will also advise on the 3 Pre-Prepared framed objects for the GCF Advanced Examination which is as follows:

·	1. Mounted print / artwork to Conservation standards, with 5 band wash-line with minimum of 15mm washed panel

·	2. Individually designed mount, and framed as if it was a pastel, even if a pastel is not used

·	3. Multi-Aperture Mount, to include 6 apertures, 3 landscape, 3 portrait

Required Reading:

·	The Art of Mountcutting, by Lyn Hall GCF, published by Fine Art Trade Guild

·	Conservation Framing, published by Fine Art Trade Guild

·	Mount Design & Function Advanced GCF Study Guide, published by Fine Art Trade Guild