I decided to finally use this painting that I did for a final project back in college.
A little back story: The assignment was to pick a painting from a set of pre-chosen artists and duplicate the painting - brush stroke for brush stroke with exact color matches. Then, we had to do our own variation of it for the second painting. The one on the left is my "copy" of the original - the right is my own version.
My brother really like them so I let him hold onto them for awhile but I got them back around the time that John and I got married and they've been sitting in storage ever since. I just haven't been able to figure out where to put them.
Fast forward to now - I need color in our living room - what a great "inspiration" piece! I decided to have them professionally framed - finally! (They've been in a side by side matted rectangle this whole time but no protective glass.)
I see that a certain craft store is having a 55% off custom framing orders so I go get a quote - and WOW! Basically, it was going to be around $150 to get it framed. Seriously?! I told the lady that I'd have to discuss it with my husband (knowing exactly how that discussion would go - haha) and decided to just look around at the regular frames they had. Coincidentally, they had their frames 50% off too. Each piece was a 12x12 square so I decided to just remove the matte and get 2 12x12 frames. I was a little sad to do this but it was the cheapest way. I ended up saving around $120 doing it this way - and I love how they look!
Now I need to figure out how I want them to be placed in my work-in-progress gallery wall....
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