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evartpat

evartpat

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OMG!!

I just had to share this!
Baer made me this frame for my painting "The Flame"

I am so honored, excited and beside myself like you cannot believe!! :icon21::icon21::icon21:

I talk more about it on my blog (Tortured Artist Cafe').

Here is a picture of the finished frame, and a detail of the corner.

To quote the Baer Meister:

Cherry, and ebony for the wood, latigo (3-oz), alcohol dyes,
Good Stuff for a tough shell, black wax, and my own grind of granite 1,600 grit, pumicestone 1,200 grit,
whiting 3,200 grit, and rouge slip-stone 24,000 grit.

two layers of wax.... torch... until it sets on fire..... then mop down with one more coat..... and start
stoning it.

All of the "aging" is visual.... the only thing that was beaten with concrete chunk was the outside
to lend a hint at the rough ashler face of stone.

total of 127 pieces. . . or something like that.




I am SO excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flame_Frame.jpg


flameframedetail.jpg
 
That's a keeper. Great artwork, great frame. :thumbsup:
 
WOW!

Sat here for about 20 mins trying to compose words for what I feel for this, but I couldn't find them - so 'wow' will have to do and if Shakespeare could have done better there would be a word in the dictionary that describes what I feel for this!
 
And how many zillions of credits would Baer charge for this masterpiece? It leaves me speechless.

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Utterly exquisite.
 
Wow!!!! that's is a tongue twister, The Frame on The Flame rest mainly on the....
 
Awesome!
 
Well...just got back from an excellent lunch with Baer of chinese food and great conversation. Afterwards...the best dessert ever...My FRAME!!! Chased with a big Baer Hug!!!
And a solid and fabulous creation of cherry, ebony and leather it is!!

OMG...It is even more awesome on person!! I can't wait to get my painiting assembled in it for real. It is PERFECT on it!! I have already chosen a place of honor in my living room to hang it.

I am now the proud owner of a Baer Charlton Original...<sigh>

I think I will go back and hold it again...LOL!! :icon21:
 
Yup...leather and it looks just like the leather strap blindfold in the painting.

The fine subtle details on this frame are amazing! For example, the ebony trim on the lip of the frame has distressing that mirrors her hair in the image. It really has an amazing symbiosis with my painting.

I have always known Baer was a master craftsman, but this...it just takes my breath away!
 
Pat and Baer, you've both outdone yourselves with this one. I'm in complete awe.
 
Wow that's amazing. Kudos to him - and you for the art! How long did the frame take him do ya know?
 
Just finished totalling it all up. (the side carving and 19 different finishing pieces and steps were in just that . . steps)

Total time 67 hours.... or 74 hours if you include grinding the new stone dusts that I was out of.
 
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