Common Watercolor Mat Sizes

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Common watercolor mat sizes. Matting and framing your work matting your watercolors protects and enhances the look of your paintings by cleanly defining the image edges and isolating your image in a uniform neutral or complementary background. On our site you can create a frame up to 40 x 60 inches. In general at least 3 inch mat border is common for that size but a 4 inch will give it more of a gallery look and help set the artwork off from the frame and the rest of the wall more. When you want to frame artwork with a unique size order a custom frame to get an exact match for your print.

When using two mats try to use complimentary colors for the strongest interest. Our website s custom build a frame allows you to enter your artwork size and using these dimensions automatically calculates the recommended mat window opening and frame size. Note that in many watercolor competitions they require a white mat so it is better to double mat in white. Cheap joe s art stuff offers a variety of matboards mounting board pre cut mats mounts and mat frames for framing and presenting your artwork.

Using a lighter mat on the outside and the darker on inside will help to direct the eye to the painting. A 4 inch mat would result in a 24x24 inch picture frame.