Matting & Framing Techniques for Watercolor Painting

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Marcia Matcham and I'm here speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Just a few words about matting and framing. For instance, this painting here I chose the soft greet mat, I'd first thought I'd use the white because we do have white here. I try to pick colors that that promiting than the painting. But each one seems to be different and so this off green blended with the background and this gold brings out the color with the two cats, so i thought those would work. And it's about good as it's going to get, but sometimes you just can't come up with wonderful mixture. I chose the frame cause of the maroon tones and it has gold which gives highlight to it. "