How to Frame a Portrait

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Summary: How to mount your portrait drawing on the inside of a frame and close the frame for a finished framed portrait; learn this and more in this free online art lesson on video about drawing portraits, taught by expert David Clemen.

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David A. Clemen has a BFA in Fashion Design from Virginia Commonwealth University and a one year Graphic Design degree from the Art Institute of Atlanta. He is qualified in many...read more

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"Okay, welcome back. Now that we have our drawing on coquille board of the portrait finished, we forgot one minor detail.... sign it. 'O8 and then I have already taken the back off of this frame, okay. So once I do that... there?s a couple of ways you can do it. You can actually take the mat out and just make sure that it is how you want it. And then once you get it where you want it, it gets kind of tricky but there's a couple different ways you can do it. Get it how you want it in the mat and then hold it in place and then flip it over and just be sure to keep it in place. Then take your artist's tape or mounting tape and just get the corners. And before you do the bottom two, just kind of look it over and make sure that's how you want it. And then if that's how you want it, go ahead and do the bottom two corners. And then once you have that, just put it in face down. Put the cardboard backing in. Or it might have a different kind of backing in but it's usually a piece of cardboard. And then just press these down. Voila. You have a finished drawing, framed. Thanks for watching."

eHow Article: How to Frame a Portrait

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