Thursday, December 10, 2015

Passe-partout

Some of you may know that every now and then I make an oil sketch on paper. Sometimes in preparation of the 'real thing', sometimes to convince a client to place the commission. I sell these sketches online for a modest price (http://www.janhendrikdolsma.nl/paintings/). When a work is sold I package it between two styrofoam sheets and send it to the buyer in a cardboard envelope. But before I do, I put it in an acid free passepartout.


I used to make them myself, but nowadays I got a frame maker and she (yes, it's a she) does it a hundred times better than I ever will. She makes me a so called 'travel passepartout' that protects the front- and backside of the painting. In combination with the cardboard envelope and the styrofoam sheets the work is properly protected. In the last couple of years I sent quite a few of these sketches and up to now they always arrived undamaged (knock on wood...).


This particular sketch falls in the 'convincing the client' category. I was pleased when they ordered the 'real thing'. The sketch is now for sale on my website. Hope you like it.  

Windy Beach, 30 x 40 cm, oil on paper

2 comments:

  1. Where cam i buy the frame paspartout?

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    1. Hi Eugenio, my advice would be to drop by your local frame maker and ask him/her to make you a travel passe partout. You could even make a screen shot of this blog to clarify your request. Hope this helps!

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