At Oil Painting Express, we offer frames in many different styles: gold and baroque to accent your masterpiece or silver and sleek to add a touch of elegance, wooden and modern, to let the beauty of the piece show. It's up to your aesthetic as to what fits. But when buying a frame, it also helps to consider the style of the painting. How would it have been hung originally? What about in a museum?

You might notice, when viewing contemporary art, often there are no frames at all. This is what is called a gallery-wrap. Oil Painting Express proudly offers a gallery-wrap, so you can hang your painting to look professional and slick-- without a frame at all.

What is a gallery wrap? It's a method of stretching the canvas around the sides of the painting, so the hardware of the canvas doesn't show and the painting can hang, on it's own. On the sides of the canvas, the painting can continue, producing a 3-d effect, or the sides can stay white, the painting just on the face. Oil Painting Express offers both versions.

Both framing and gallery wrapping are good options, as the oil paint will stay safe either way. What you need to keep in mind is simply your personal aesthetic, which goes with your décor, which you think looks better.

So once you've got in in frame, or in wrap, how are you going to hang your painting?

Galleries hang their paintings at 57 inches, in the dead-center of a wall. This is because this lines up with most people's vision, often producing the best effect, for how the art is to be seen.

Apartment Therapy ran a how-to on doing this where they offered:

1. Measure and lightly mark 57 inches on the wall.
2. Measure top of your picture to the middle (or take height and divide by 2).
3. Measure top of your picture to the tightened wire (a small amount).
4. Subtract this last amount to tell you how far above 57 inches your hook should go.
5. Measure up from 57 inches with this last amount and lightly mark on the wall.

Also, if you know where you want to hang your painting before you purchase it, measure the wall on which you'd like it to hang. This is go-to home decorating advice. Remember that your painting should not take up all of the space, there should be a nice even space around the painting, not too much and not to little.

Happy hanging!