Technique of Watercolor Painting: WC09 FRAMING

Framing watercolor pictures is now a huge widespread industry.

As education has been made available to children of all ages drawing and painting have been found to be useful tools to engage their attention. These children grow up with a first hand acquaintance of the joys and satisfactions to be founding in the graphic arts. An industry has developed supplying painting materials for this huge market for specialist painting products.

Picture framing is part of this wider industry and serves painters of all types and all levels of ability with high quality mass-produced framing services and products.

Framing watercolors is necessary to their preservation. How this is done is a personal thing but adopting the following suggestions will be more than helpful to set off your work in the best possible way to avoid later disappointment especially in the medium and long term.

The object of framing a watercolor is to present the painting at its best and to protect it from damage by dust organisms dampness and toxins in the air. The effect of framing therefore is to preserve the work and retain its value for its owner in the many years to come.

During the life of the painting reframing will probably be necessary to stave off deterioration from attack