Colored Mats For Watercolors

Picking your mat board colors is really fun.

Colored mats for watercolors.

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. You have to be careful that the mat colors don t overpower your art. They also market the van gogh student grade line of paints. 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. 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. In 1899 martin talens started marketing watercolors and drawing inks in the dutch town of apeldoorn.

Note that in many watercolor competitions they require a white mat so it is better to double mat in white. Some brightly colored art is almost impossible to mat well in anything but white or black. When using two mats try to use complimentary colors for the strongest interest. Using a lighter mat on the outside and the darker on inside will help to direct the eye to the painting.

Remember the mat and frame should draw your eye to the artwork not attract attention to themselves. Using high contrast mats for drama. You re able to express your creativity find color combinations that ll make your art jump off the wall and when you finally see it all come together the final product can t help but put a smile on your face. 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.

Color can work very nicely with a watercolor. But with so many colors to choose from it can be confusing to figure out what you want. One of my favorite ways to frame a watercolor painting is with a float mount. 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.

Take it from us. It is a great feeling. 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.