How To Frame A Pastel Painting Without A Mat

Since i think the latter is too stuffy for my taste and especially since mat cutters are hard to use without damaging the mat i opted for attaching my art to the top of the mat.

How to frame a pastel painting without a mat.

How to frame a pastel is one of the most frequently asked questions i hear during a painting workshop. The frame is analogous to the clothing one wears for a job interview. There are two ways to mat art. Many pastel artists are abandoning traditional mat and frame presentations and replacing them instead with wide wood frames.

Many painters find it superfluous to discuss the frame feeling that the artwork should matter most. Commonly oil and acrylic paintings are displayed with a wider wood frame that may or may not. She uses econospace sticks by frame tek. This will keep the artwork from slipping or moving after it has been framed.

Frame in the following layers from top to bottom. For this large scale photograph by kt merry a thin mat is exactly what s needed to set the artwork apart from our vintage gold heritage frame. These works are attracting the attention of the canvas buying public. Artist susan pitcairn demonstrates how to set a pastel into a frame without the use of a mat.

Lay the art on top of the mat or cut a hole in the mat and place the art behind it. But it can t be denied that the framing plays a major part in how the painting will be viewed. Here is a painting of a waffle with a mat. This is one of my daily paintings.

Some pastel papers are sturdy enough to be framed without a backing board or back mat if the artwork is on paper that is not heavy weight then it is recommended to attach it to a backing board. This allows the pastel to look less like a print or poster which commonly have a wide surrounding border. I cut thin strips of the tape and equal size strips of the mat board then i adhere the tape to the glass so it will be hidden by the lip of the frame and put the strip of mat board on the tape that the pastel will be. With the sticks alread.

I prefer to frame without mats and make my own spacers with a double stick tape usually command strips and acid free mat board. Using spacers between the art and the mat or glass is a very good idea. Drowning princess from jvdas berra available at these fine walls is a large scale photograph reads almost like a painting when framed full bleed in our gallery frame in luxe gold. Frame pastels either with a mat or without a mat in a frame.

It is a small 5 x 7 in.