I bought every A4 black frame from the Wilko in Fulham Broadway, Stratford and Kensington High Street. Every single one.
I bought every A3 black frame from Hobbycraft in Borehamwood.
I bought 21 A4 clip frames from Snappysnaps in North End Road.
I framed all my portraits (or prints of them), all the copies for the people that I drew, and all the 'hand' portraits of the art class I've been running in the community centre.
I (with the fantastic assistance of Stuart the handyman) hung all the framed prints in the gallery on Friday, and marked up the display boards in the community centre today, ready for the talk I'm doing there tomorrow lunchtime.
I took two drawings over to Hackney today, one to be re-scanned because it wasn't good enough, and one to be scanned because I missed it out. I went to a framers on Friday to ask about getting a mount cut, because the aperture in the one in the frame I bought wasn't big enough, but they wouldn't do it without the print, which I'd left in the studio because of the rain (I'm feeling ultra-protective of my work).
Tomorrow, I'm showing some of my work in the Hub Community Centre in Aisgill Avenue and talking about it at 12.30, then whizzing round to open up the gallery at 2.
Here are the opening times over the next two weeks:
Hey! I was in the B/Wood Hobbycraft last week! Not as good as the Stevenage one.
ReplyDeleteNote of caution: don't leave Dunelm frames in the sun. They bend up like bananas.