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This guide is intended to summarise the many types of mounts available and try and provide some useful guidance as to what mounts may look best with certain subject matters and/or colours.
1. Single MountA ph neutral card surround, which usually overlaps the front of your artwork to provide visual space around your image, and to keep the image from touching the glaze.For photos, prints, posters, certificates, watercolours and all other works on paper or cloth. A wide range of mount colours is available but pale and neutral colours are most popular as strong and dark colours can be too dominant. You may choose shades or colours to suit the picture or your decor, but remember that colours are accentuated by puttting them alongside a contrasting colour. 2. Double MountA second mount in the same or a complementary colour can sometimes help to give even more depth to your picture. This effect is achieved by having a small amount of inner mount showing immediately next to the image. As a general rule, the outer mount is a lighter colour than the inner one.Used for the same types of artworks as single mounts, but the extra thickness make it suitable for works with shallow relief e.g. needleworks & oils on paper. Dark & stronger colours are great as a small (5mm) inner mount where they would be too much on their own. A light colour inside a dark colour can work very well on darker images with 10 -15mm of inner. |
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