gilded frame – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com Making a Handmade Modern Home one DIY project at a time. Thu, 16 Jan 2020 17:42:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/francoisetmoi.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Untitled-2-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 gilded frame – Francois et Moi https://francoisetmoi.com 32 32 76357554 DIY Vintage Paintings (That Are Truly Convincing!) https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/diy-vintage-paintings-that-are-truly-convincing/ https://francoisetmoi.com/diy/diy-vintage-paintings-that-are-truly-convincing/#comments Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:00:25 +0000 https://francoisetmoi.com/?p=18757 Steal this easy idea for turning inexpensive thrifted art into beautiful DIY vintage paintings with chic gilded frames. Champagne art on a beer budget! Picture It: That serendipitous moment when the stars align for one fleeting second, the thrift store crowd parts, and you lay eyes on the PERFECT vintage painting: colorful brush-stroked landscape, framed by nuanced gilded molding, and within your minuscule budget. This heavenly scenario–well it’s only ever actually happened ONCE in my experience. LOL. But I have come across many a dime-a-dozen, amateur paintings in my thrifting tenure that are affordable and have great frames. The only tiny problem is the art and frame aren’t exactly my taste. My blogger friend, Melissa from The Faux Martha, introduced me to the National Gallery of Art’s website with her infamous George Washington print. NGA offers open access images of noteworthy American art free for download. It’s a pretty amazing resource. They have so many great works, and I was particularly taken with a landscape piece called, The Lackawanna Valley by George Inness. It’s a beautiful landscape composition with a delicious earthy color palette. When I saw this fruit bowl ‘still life’ painting at the thrift store, I initially walked […]

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