How To Frame A Drawing Without A Mat

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 frame a drawing without a mat.

We currently offer no mat single mat double mat floated island mat and article framing for your artwork. With a regular mat the framer will cut a beveled hole in the middle of the decorative mat then place the artwork on top of a foam mat which sits behind the decorative one. Most pieces look better with. Choose one of our acid free pre cut mats or customize an uncut matboard.

A custom cut mat and our white gallery frame are all it takes to make your finest press clippings to shine. Recently i was printing a panorama for a show with a 36 size restriction. This allows the pastel to look less like a print or poster which commonly have a wide surrounding border. Many pastel artists are abandoning traditional mat and frame presentations and replacing them instead with wide wood frames.

These works are attracting the attention of the canvas buying public. If you have any work on paper a drawing a print a watercolor it s likely to look even lovelier with a mat. To mat or not to mat. As of may 2019 our available mat styles have increased.

In its simplest form it is a single piece of board 1 6mm thick 1 16 with an aperture that reveals the drawing behind it. The mount mat traps the picture in place behind the glass. You can choose your optimal mat style in our online frame designer and learn more about our current mat styles here keeping it simple is our mantra her. I wanted to use the full width for the image.

A mat can really make your photo pop and complement the flat nature of the medium. Even without a frame you can still include a border around the art for a simple framed look or you can opt for completely borderless display. With a border using a mat allows you to frame your art or photo with a colorful border without using an actual picture frame. Behind the mount and artwork will sit the back mount to which your drawing will likely be fixed with acid free tape.