The frame is so expensive, I ordered from micheal’s spent over $200. :(
You can make your own frames from old pallets and scrap wood. It isn’t difficult. A hand saw, a staple gun and some paint or stain....................
In the distant past when I was a couple of years out of college, my art student friend showed me some water colors which she had made in college and which she hoped to sell. I liked her paintings and wanted to encourage her, so I selected one and asked for a price.She replied with a figure which I don’t remember precisely, but added that the frame would cost more than the picture. I replied that that would not be so, that I would not accept the insult. I paid her double the price of the frame, for the picture framed.
Years after I bought that picture, I visited her mother and couldn’t get over how familiar the paintings on her walls looked. Philistine that I was, it took me half an hour to realize that they were all of a piece because they were all painted by the same girl who had sold me the painting which was part of my own home’s furnishings. Until that instant I had no clue about how one might distinguish paintings of one artist from those of another.
I still have that picture on the wall, it proved to be a keeper. In fact, the painting has outlasted that frame. The wire mount pulled out of the frame and the painting crashed to the floor and had to be remounted. And that was probably 20 years ago . . .