Dromore Picture Framing ©

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 1100 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

Recommended Reading:

·Conservation Framing, by Vivian C Kistler, CPF, GCF

·Mat Decoration, by Brian Wolfe CPF, GCF

·Cutting, Carving, Decorating Mats, by Brian Wolfe CPF, GCF

 

Contact Moira at Fine Art Trade Guild, 0207 381 6616 or email

 

 

Introduction to Advanced Mountcutting Course

 

Computerised Mountcutting Course with Valiani CMC

Highly specialised mount cutting using a Valiani CMC 150.....course can either be at our workshops or your own, using your own equipment. Get to know what both you and your Valiani are capable of, incorporating Corel Draw and unique designs. Use all 7 Unique cutting and drawing heads. NO Other CMC on the market can reproduce the versatility of the Valiani.

 

Courses are held mostly in the evenings or weekends, please contact us for more details, email

(Maximum at our workshop 4 people)