Colored Mats For Watercolors

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Colored mats for watercolors.

I ve matted watercolors with colored mats for people and myself with beautiful results. The family based company produces rembrandt artists watercolor 72 colors in 5ml tubes 17ml tubes and pans and student grade talens aquarelle or water color 36 colors in 8ml tubes. Obuby aqua magic doodle mat kids 47 x 35 inches water color drawing board sea world coloring writing educational toys gift for boys girls age 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. As long as the mat color is borrowed from one of the secondary or tertiary colors in the artwork a color mat can work well.

You have to be careful that the mat colors don t overpower your art. When using two mats try to use complimentary colors for the strongest interest. Dark mats on light art light mats on dark art and strong colored mats can sometimes work to give your art the punch you want. Picking your mat board colors is really fun.

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. They also market the van gogh student grade line of paints. In 1899 martin talens started marketing watercolors and drawing inks in the dutch town of apeldoorn. Using a lighter mat on the outside and the darker on inside will help to direct the eye to the painting.

Go for tones that are either dominant in the image or that draw out subtle colors in the piece a color that seems to bring it all together. Note that in many watercolor competitions they require a white mat so it is better to double mat in white. One of my favorite ways to frame a watercolor painting is with a float mount. Some brightly colored art is almost impossible to mat well in anything but white or black.

But with so many colors to choose from it can be confusing to figure out what you want. Blick carries many archival pre cut mats guaranteed to conserve artwork or important documents for generations as well as those intended simply for decorative framing. For more matting ideas and advice check out this super helpful article with lots of pretty pictures the right mat for your artwork. From bevel cut single mats with same color or contrasting cores to double mats that add depth and dimension you ll find pre cut mats in a range of color choices.

Color can work very nicely with a watercolor. Remember the mat and frame should draw your eye to the artwork not attract attention to themselves. Consider a pale forest green for a barn in front of a out of focus forest or light blue to complement the distant sky of a cityscape. My advice is to choose color wisely.