Framing 2

It's been a good summer as far as drawing goes.  Despite the inconsistency of the weather I've still managed to get outside and draw the scenery around London and, for a couple of days, in Paris.  There is now a heap of pictures in a box in my room that all need to be sorted through, completed or scrapped.

This afternoon I went to IKEA to purchase some frames, and have got a couple, one to fit an A4 picture and one to fit an A5.  So one step taken in a forward direction.

Giclée (/ʒiːˈkleɪ/ zhee-KLAY or /dʒiːˈkleɪ/) is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers. The name originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print.

Framing

I am in the process of trying to print and frame some of my drawings, with a view to possibly exhibiting them somewhere.  I have nowhere definite planned to exhibit, but people keep saying I should, and I can't exhibit without first printing and framing my pictures.  There are a number of considerations, however, and this is all new territory for me:

•  Where to print.  I tried one photo printing place online, and the colour of the pictures got lost a bit in translation.
• Framing.  IKEA list a number of different types of frame, all with funny names, and with dimensions given for each type of frame.  I don't know whether what they are giving is the size of the frame or the size of the picture each frame will accommodate.
• What to print on.  Matt or gloss?  Textured or non-textured?

Two figures

Two of my rigged characters - not great by any means, and certainly not figures that I'd feel happy about releasing to the public (the monkey's tail is particularly embarrassing) but with some postwork they could pass muster in an image.