Tips & Techniques
Proper Matting and Framing of a Painting
Transcribed from the program.
If you take any mat, especially a mat with a smaller opening, and
kind of move it around your painting, you'll see a lot of variety
and different images in just one painting.
What proper matting and framing of a painting does is create a
quiet and complimentary space around your painting.
For example, if you had a busy mat or busy frame, your eyes wouldn't
know where to look. You might not know it, but the painting and
mat would be competing for your attention visually.
The proper mat creates a nice quiet space around the painting and
should lead your eye right into the image or subject matter.
This is another good reason to keep forging ahead with a subject
matter, because in the end what you thought might be the most striking
part of the subject matter might not work.
You may like only a half or a quarter of it. You just never know.
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