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>> I'm Smith Coleman.

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And I'm owner of Coleman Fine Art
in Charleston, South Carolina.

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We're an art gallery.

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Art gallery, restoration studio for friends.

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I'm a gilder, I'm a master gilder.

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And I make one of a kind frames.

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As a gilder I work with gold.

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In my case, it's primarily
frames and interior gilding.

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With a frame there's- You
have the wood substrate.

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You have gesso on top of
that - many, many layers.

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Then there's many sanding techniques that must
go one, and then there's clay or ball that's put

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on top of that, which can range really from any
color from white to black and full spectrum.

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Then you apply the gold and burnish,
rub back, distress, tone, voila.

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There's not any one specific theme
that I look for in a painting.

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It might be coloration.

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It might be texture.

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It might be subject matter.

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For instance, I did a- I did a frame for
a painting that- that showed a shrimper.

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And he had his big shrimping nets
on the- on the boat behind him.

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So I incorporated a net- netting in the frame.

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So it was just a general theme.

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I might do a fun, whimsical frame of an
artist did a painting of pigs, little piglets.

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And so I did little curlicue
tails within the frame.

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And so things like that.