Framing Watercolors
Framing Watercolors
Matting can help a piece stand out and pull in the colors you love.
Original Watercolors usually need a mat to distance the piece from touching the glass and if you are in a very high humidity location. This is also true, if you buy a Limited Edition signed Giclee'. I always coat the piece for protection suggested by the Art industry to preserve the Giclee' further.
However, if you are buying a reproduction on archival watercolor paper it isn't as necessary to mat the print.
Brugge at Midnight a painting series called Midnight paintings.
Water colors
"Summer Cabins"
Watercolor approaches to framing
This is another example of a completely different framing view with enhancing the lighter shades in the piece.
WATERCOLOR Process
Watercolors can be "dry brush" and it delivers more of a colored pencil look that is perfect for more of an illustration style. An artist has a lot of control on the brush and were the paints are placed, such as Summer Cabins.
IF an artist uses a load of color and water, the colors run and splash together with more of a spontanious view.
Watercolors that flow...
Many people enjoy watercolor paintings because they flow across the page, have light tints and ...
"Holland Peppermill"
Additional Information
It was exciting to see the old peppermill when I was in Holland. A rugged sailboat was passing and the drawbridge was lifting to accommodate. The mill was still grinding pepper after all these years.
An old peppermill in Holland with a drawbridge was painted "Plein Aire".