A custom cut mat and our white gallery frame are all it takes to make your finest press clippings to shine.
How to frame a print without a mat.
You ve purchased a small print and it feels swallowed by the wall.
Make custom art using anything flat from a vintage album cover to a page from a book or magazine.
Choose one of our acid free pre cut mats or customize an uncut matboard.
A mat can really make your photo pop and complement the flat nature of the medium.
After years of working with frame shops that encouraged us to add more an audubon print framed with not one not two but three mats in grey pink and blue we encourage our clients to use less letting your art be the star with the added benefit of saving you cash for more art an iphone 6 you name it.
Instead of the artwork jutting right up to the frame a mat provides a border of whitespace.
Pull the page from the book.
Buy a frame a few sizes up then cut a mat board to fit in the frame and showcase the art.
Many pastel artists are abandoning traditional mat and frame presentations and replacing them instead with wide wood frames.
For instance if your print is 11 by 14 in 28 by 36 cm you may want to get a 16 by 20 in 41 by 51 cm.
This allows the pastel to look less like a print or poster which commonly have a wide surrounding border.
I wanted to use the full width for the image.
Recently i was printing a panorama for a show with a 36 size restriction.
Measure and cut mat.
Finding artwork you love is a lengthy and expensive process.
Look for a frame that s a size or so larger than the print you have on hand.
Get a frame that s larger than your print.
Mats create visual space for the artwork to breathe.
Score the page enough to lightly cut it without cutting through multiple pages.
These works are attracting the attention of the canvas buying public.
Personal photographs or smaller scale pics seem to transcend from casual snapshots to the realm of fine art with the addition of a mat.
How to mat and frame artwork.
If you just put a print into a frame without a mat or spacers contact with the glass can cause sticking buckling newton rings and a variety of other problems.