One of the hardest things about making miniature art is framing it! When I started painting miniatures I didn’t know anything about making frames or working with wood but over the years I’ve learned a lot. I found that ready made miniature frames were mostly too “toy” like. I needed real scaled down frames and I found that you can buy the moldings from some of the dollhouse suppliers. I really scored when I found Steve Goode of S.H. Goode & Sons, https://www.shgoode.com/. He makes the best fine hard wood frame moldings. When I started painting miniatures, I did so with the Dollhouse market in mind. Then I discovered that there was a whole world of miniatures in the fine art world too. The fine art miniatures are a larger scale and in full size frames that hang on real walls.  Meeting fine art patrons and collectors who appreciated tiny paintings opened up a whole other market. When I first started competing in the Fine Art Miniature shows I would take the paintings out of their tiny frames and make a full size frame for the exhibits. Sometimes I had to put them back into the dollhouse size frame if my customer wanted it for their miniature room. Switching the frames got to be a real hassle as you might imagine! I came up with a solution when I started mounting the miniature painting with the smaller scale frame onto a linen mat board and “floating” it inside a full size frame. Now both markets are happy with my frames. The dollhouse collectors can have me take the painting out of the larger frame and display it on in their tiny houses and the fine art collectors can enjoy them on their walls. This has been working very well for me and I have seen a few other artists copy this way of framing too.

Each painting I do is one of a kind and requires a custom frame. I’ve been unable to “standardize” my frame sizes. Besides, my frames are unique and they make my paintings that much more special. I want anyone to enjoy my work in their home, regardless of the kind of collector they are. If you love the tiny paintings in their tiny frames but don’t have a miniature room to “hang” them in, don’t worry, I have tiny easels available to display them on and you can enjoy them on a shelf, in a curio cabinet or on a table top. If you don’t want the full size frame, the easel is included with all original paintings.