PixelRabbit
A naughty little bunny...
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I'm working away at creating products for a few things, a new store a friend is opening, some showings I have coming up next summer as well as looking at different ways to offer products, mainly prints already framed and ready to go.
After a lot of shooting in the dark I think that having a physical print ready to go is an important step for me as opposed to solely digital copies and offering prints to be ordered (doesn't work). I'm also working towards doing my own printing and exploring more artistic routes that way. Another HUGE reason is much of my work isn't standard sizes, cropping often is bad for the composition and I would much rather cut my own mats to fit the work instead of trying to fit the work in the mat but I really want to eliminate the middle man.
That brings me to my question, has/does anyone do their own matting and framing? What can you share about it? I'm sourcing resources for materials and finding a LOT of pre cut mats but not much that isn't cut thus far. I have the space and tools to do this with only an investment in materials and I'm hitting a wall here trying to put it all together, help?
After a lot of shooting in the dark I think that having a physical print ready to go is an important step for me as opposed to solely digital copies and offering prints to be ordered (doesn't work). I'm also working towards doing my own printing and exploring more artistic routes that way. Another HUGE reason is much of my work isn't standard sizes, cropping often is bad for the composition and I would much rather cut my own mats to fit the work instead of trying to fit the work in the mat but I really want to eliminate the middle man.
That brings me to my question, has/does anyone do their own matting and framing? What can you share about it? I'm sourcing resources for materials and finding a LOT of pre cut mats but not much that isn't cut thus far. I have the space and tools to do this with only an investment in materials and I'm hitting a wall here trying to put it all together, help?