Another Painting / Framing Project

When I bought the frames from my last post, I also bought this other cute little guy that was a vertical frame with two oblong, octagonal openings. I decided to use it as part of a birthday present for Pete and paint one of his favorite Walt Whitman quotes on the inside. The frame is unchanged; the paintings were done with water color.

The hat:

...and boots:

...that can contain no man (or woman!):

Frames

Here are some pictures of the frames I recently bought and painted! The frames are from Used-A-Bit, a second hand/antique store less than 3 blocks away. All of the frames were $3 or less. I painted them with acrylic paint borrowed from the Key, and the pictures are all ones recycled from two old calendars I've been saving called "The Reading Woman." All in all, a pretty cheap (and easy!) way to decorate the wall above my desk.

The pictures aren't the greatest, because my camera has an unfortunately large spectrum of light in which the flash is too bright and the natural light too dim.

Here's the first one I did (the actual color is a forest green):

The second (slate blue):

And the third, which is a brownish gold. This one is my favorite, probably because the frame itself is the coolest:

And the trio (I had to take the photos at an angle because of the reflection):