Larry Johnson's

Watercolor Demos 3

"Discovering flaws in your paper after applying the washes."

OOPS!

    While I was putting down the first abstract washes I noticed three lines going from the upper right corner down to the left near the top 1/3 of the paper.

     I wanted to keep some light areas in the background for depth but no matter how dark I applied the colors the lines still showed through.

     The easiest solution was "creative matting".  I double checked all of the dimensions and figured that I could save the piece.

THE SOLUTION!

     I took a couple of mat corners and estimated where I would have to position the mat to hide the flaws.   

     Then I cut a double mat that would frame out to 20" w x 10" h.  I held the image opening of 15-1/2 w" x 7-1/2" h, which still gave me a nice format.

     Here's a quick photo of the image where it stands right now.    The darks on the original are darker than shown here.  I'm satisfied with the outcome, so I think I'll mat it and call it finished.

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