How To Keep Mat Board Together Without A Frame

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How to keep mat board together without a frame.

Mat boards come in a variety of colors and can be cut to custom sizes so you can have as much or as little boarder as you d like. Using a mat allows you to frame your art or photo with a colorful border without using an actual picture frame. Over the last year i ve noticed the variety of framing methods for photographs at the high end new york galleries via the art show reviews on dlk collection 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.

Choose a frame that is bigger than your poster s dimensions if you are using a mat. The extra space in the frame can allow for the decorative or protective background mat and prevent the frame from damaging the poster s edges. When dealing with mat board for display you have two mounting options. Commonly oil and acrylic paintings are displayed with a wider wood frame that may or may not.

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. Many pastel artists are abandoning traditional mat and frame presentations and replacing them instead with wide wood frames. Beginning with a turquoise mat add 1 2 foam board on top and end with the addition of a white mat on top of the foam board. I ve always framed photographs with a mat both for the traditional look and to keep the print separated from the glazing.

Here the image is cut apart each section mounted on 1 4 foam board and individual mats cut around each section.