Open Day Basics

Date:   Saturday 20^th September (change to date published earlier on site)

Open: 10.00 am – 2.00 pm

Venue: All About Framing (DIYframing) store, Crusader Industrial Estate, Stirling Road, Off Halifax Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP12 3ST

Directions: How to find us

There will be:

Sales showroom –  see all materials & equipment;

Bargains and clearance sales – some discounted prices and reductions;

Seminars – demonstrations of creative ideas and technical skills: free;

Special offer mouldings – packs of smaller lengths of mouldings remaining from gallery and special purchase mouldings;

Demonstrations of equipment – find out about a wide range of kit;

Solutions to framing problems – discuss your framing issues with our Lead Trainer, Richard, before, between and after the seminars

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Free Seminars

Please remember that while the sessions are FREE, you do need to reserve your place as there is a limited capacity for each session: contact info@diyframing marking the subject Seminar Bookings.

Seats will be issued on a first come first booked basis: make sure you contact us soon as places go quickly.

Ideas about adding different areas of colour in a mount and creating sculpted lines.  All demonstrations will be carried out using simple kit.

• Create double mounts in multi  - aperture arrangements
• Add colour bands across your mount
• Create different colour inner layers  in a multi aperture  double mount
• Cut V grooves using a simple mount cutting system
• Use embossing tools on a mount

Formal Framing: 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm 

Based on ideas used in slightly more formal framing, we will look at the key techniques used.

• Draw in colour lines and colour washlines
• Make a slip mount
• Explore styles of fillets (and similar) and how they are made / fitted
• Create mitred corners on mounts using marbled tapes etc
• Thoughts around many cornered frames

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Essential Reminders

Some essential reminders of new ideas & information first outlined this summer.

New Additions Mount Board Range: Arqadia has introduced some new styles to  their mount board range: new addition conservation board and layered board MORE

Learn More With DIYframing: a few places remain on our successful range of "Development Level" framing workshops.  Find out how you can increase your range of framing skills and techniques. MORE

Hiring Workspace @ DIYframing: find out how you can rent a workstation in our training room to practise the practical ideas you have acquired on our training days. MORE

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Dates: now up to end of 2015

Art & Photography Framing Weekends coming up in the final quarter of 2014: 

CAMBRIDGE - 20th & 21st September

MANCHESTER -  4th & 5th October

CHICHESTER - 11th & 12th October

TUNBRIDGE WELLS - 25th & 26th October

BRISTOL -  8th & 9th November

LONDON (TBA) -  8th & 9th November

YORK -  13th & 14th December

For events at our main centre click: ALL COURSES: now listing for the whole of 2015

Reserve places NOW, to avoid disappointment

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