Question About Mats/Framing

[chomiji]

So how tough is cutting custom mats? We have a nice local framing shop, and we like to buy local, but I just got two tiny watercolors (see more from the series she did here), inspired by some pix from my garden that I posted on FB. On the two she sent me, the quote is split between the two. So I would need a mat with a double opening to frame them together (either that, or two tiny separate frames).

I just know that getting them framed will cost beaucoup de bucks. And I haven't been doing anything crafty recently.

So these are iris and crocus from my front yard, taken with the cell phone camera. I had used this for my cover photo on FB.

Comments

[ethaisa]

IME, it's tricky - you need a special angle knife (well, you can do it with a regular exacto but that takes a really steady hand and lots of practice). You can sometimes find DIY matte kits but I'm not sure of the sizes available (or if they even have fancy multi-picture sheets).

I found doing the corners (and not overshooting) the trickest.

[ambyr]

Getting them framed would be expensive, but just getting custom mats cut (with the understanding that you'll be putting them in standard-sized over-the-counter frames) isn't usually that bad, in my experience.