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Trev wrote:awesome! and how did you acquire this piece bob?
EVS stuff can be kinda pricey.

A guy in the comicart-l yahoo group was selling it on eBay and posted about it to the group....... sold it to me at 15% discount for being a group member & charged me actual shipping instead of "full eBay" shipping.

I was browsing around on Romitaman.com last night while chatting with Sean & Trev on Skype and came upon the following Gene Colan 2-page spread from the B&W Tomb of Dracula #1 magazine.

I have a couple Gene Colan pages, a page from Daredevil -1 with Matt Murdock, a page from Detective #538 with Batman, and the page from Spectre (1987) #4 but all these are "regular" inked line art.

I love the tonal work Gene did on this spread, which was made to be reproduced in B&W. It's like a colored piece even though it's just shades/tones/textures. Even without any major 'known' characters, it's my favorite Colan piece, very moody, very "art".

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Wow, great piece!!!

Got these in the Heritage auction that ended tonight:

Don Lomax "Vietnam Journal" Pages Original Art Group (c. 2002). Set of five vibrant painted pages by Don Lomax, labeled Vietnam Journal #25, #26, #28, #30, and #32. Ink and watercolor on heavy illustration paper, each page has an image area of 10" x 13.5". In Excellent condition.

Because there was interest from some on what kind of fees Heritage slaps on top of the winning bid, here's an example:

SubTotal: $155.00
Buyer Premium: *$30.23
Service and Handling: **$14.00
Sales Tax: $15.44
Amount Due: $214.67

*Buyer's Premium: 19.5% of the successful bid (minimum $14) per lot.
**This is our standard charge for Servic and Handling. Certain packages, especially international, may cost more to ship. You will be contacted if there are additional costs.

So fees bumped up my cost by ~38%.

That said, I got 5 pages of art here, so that comes out to ~$43/page which is a pretty good deal for painted/watercolor art (I think). Plus, I'm a BIG fan of Don Lomax, I read his Vietnam Journal stuff off the rack as it was coming out from Apple Comics in the late '80s. He's an artist I've long wanted to add to my art collection, getting these color pages is even better than I was hoping for, as I'd previously only seen his B&W line art.

Them having the Beverly Hills auction location cost you $15. That kinda sucks.

This is my only page so far

That reminds me that I'd like to get a page with some nice Tigra images.....

BobBretall wrote:That reminds me that I'd like to get a page with some nice Tigra images.....

a nice west coast avengers page would be cool

Ok, Sean (BadDeacon) got me all paranoid about how my art is framed.

Since custom framing in many cases costs more than the art I'm framing and I was able to pick up the 11x17 frames at Michael's on sale for ~$17 each, I have most of my art in "off the shelf" frames.

That said, I don't have any of the art in direct sunlight so was not worried about UV glass, and I was unaware of the apparent dangers of having art come in direct contact with the glass.

You can use acid free mattes to hold the art away from the glass, but with this option you need to:
* Get a larger frame to allow for the size of the matte, this will take up more wall space, which I consider at a premium.
* You generally need to get custom cut mattes since I've never seen an off-the shelf one with an 11x17 opening. This adds to the overall expense.

The other option for holding the art away from the glass is to use framing spacers. This is what professional framers use. This is the option I went with.

So, I had 3 things I needed to do:
1) Replace the regular glass with UV protected glass
2) Get framing spacers
3) Get acid-free paper to place between the art & the frame backing

I went on a quest to get this done, and here is what I learned:

Michael's was not able to help me with buying individual framing supplies to do the work myself, they suggested I check out Aaron Bros.

I went to Aaron Bros. and talked to the Manager on duty there who was very knowledgeable about custom framing. She told me she could sell me UV protected glass, cut to 11x17 for $5 each. I wanted to try it out before I got it for everything, so I bought 6 pieces. It took them 15 minutes to cut the glass, I brought it home and slid it into my existing frames and it's great. (Now I have 17 more 11x17 frames to go before I start in on the smaller frames).

I wanted to get framing spacers to hold the art away from the glass & they told me that they'd need to charge me ~$10 per frame, but that I could buy the stuff in bulk on-line.

I found these:
http://www.artright.com/FStools.htm
http://www.artspacers.com/index.cfm

I just bought 200' of this stuff. That will allow me to add spacers to all my art frames (it takes 4'8" for an 11x17 frame, 4'2" for an 11x14, and 3'3" for an 8.5x11). This set me back $99 with shipping, so the spacers cost me 50 cents per foot.

Finally, back to Michael's (last day of the 20% off your entire purchase coupon sale) to buy big sheets of acid free art paper that can be cut to size and acts as a buffer between the back of the art & the backing.



Total cost:
$17 Original frame (bought off the rack @ 50% off)
$5 UV glass
$2.50 framing spacer
$0.50 acid free paper
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$25 vs. $100 to $150 for a custom framing job.

Awesome tips on how to frame art. The finished product looks awesome and should last a good long time!

BobBretall wrote:Ok, Sean (BadDeacon) got me all paranoid about how my art is framed.

Sorry...

I have a mat cutter, and I usually do my own matting when I need to (infrequently). This saves a bit of money too.

Do you like the results? Do you notice a difference in how it looks?

BadDeacon wrote:

BobBretall wrote:Ok, Sean (BadDeacon) got me all paranoid about how my art is framed.

Sorry...

I have a mat cutter, and I usually do my own matting when I need to (infrequently). This saves a bit of money too.

Do you like the results? Do you notice a difference in how it looks?

No problem.....better safe than sorry & the cost was not that much. There's really no noticeable difference, which is good. It's just that there is now UV glass & an air gap between the art & glass.

I purposely didn't want mattes because I like the art to be right to the edges of the frame & take up less space. I can get more pieces up on the wall that way.

Here's a better scan of the Oliver Nome page I got on FCBD.
Fathom: Kiani #1 p 14

This is page 2 from Dragon Chiang, by Tim Truman & Tim Bradstreet.

Since Dragon Chiang is the 1st comic book work Bradstreet ever did, that makes this the 2nd ever page of comic work by Bradstreet....... Nice ink wash & textures on this.....

That Dragon Chiang page is absolutely gorgeous. Even without the word balloons it tells a story. I'm not familiar with the book and wouldn't have stopped because of Tim Bradstreet. I don't have anything against him, I actually really like his Jennifer Blood covers, but I couldn't place the name until I googled him. I would've been tempted to pick that up on the merits of the piece alone.