Mike and others -
I'm curious if you like to put a very defined border around your drawings, or if you let the edge of the drawing be the border...and, more importantly, why you do this (or not). For example, would you draw a clean hard line around the edge with a ruler in darker pencil, or do you find this competes with the drawing?
Does your answer change depending on the size of the image? For example, if you were working on a very small miniature, would you do this, but not on a larger piece?
Thanks !
Kara
Border - Yea or Nay?
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Re: Border - Yea or Nay?
Personally, I allow the mat when framing to determine the outer edge.
There are a couple of exceptions. In a print like this one: I wouldn't want a framer to mat/mount it too close to the image. I feel it needs room to move. So, the border forces the mat to be larger - especially if I sign and number it close to the inner edge.
Here, again, I want space around the heads, to preserve the balance of the two full characters: And here: The bottom edge is defined. The missing bottom area would add nothing to the story. And the left-hand dog has its eye-level one third down. At the right, if the missing part had been there, the right-hand dog's head would be half-way up, instead of being close to one third up. It all adds balance. And I can sign and number it within the missing area. Without that, signing below would make the image even deeper.
All that said, I DO draw a line around the image area before I begin. But very lightly in 2H, so I know where to stop, and the line disappears into the drawing.
There are a couple of exceptions. In a print like this one: I wouldn't want a framer to mat/mount it too close to the image. I feel it needs room to move. So, the border forces the mat to be larger - especially if I sign and number it close to the inner edge.
Here, again, I want space around the heads, to preserve the balance of the two full characters: And here: The bottom edge is defined. The missing bottom area would add nothing to the story. And the left-hand dog has its eye-level one third down. At the right, if the missing part had been there, the right-hand dog's head would be half-way up, instead of being close to one third up. It all adds balance. And I can sign and number it within the missing area. Without that, signing below would make the image even deeper.
All that said, I DO draw a line around the image area before I begin. But very lightly in 2H, so I know where to stop, and the line disappears into the drawing.
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