I just got in a very nice pastel.A rather small landscape with fairly fine detail.At first I didn't think it was actually a pastel ( because of the fine detail and not seeing any dust in the plastic envelope.Upon further examination I was even more surprised to find the image was done on ultrafine sand paper. I have heard that this gave the work more"TOOTH" and held the pastel better. To some extent it does ( it allowed much finer detail and very little dust). But my question is does the sand paper strata have any hidden faults or needs ,other than conventional surfaces?
The artist matted it herself rather nicely ,but the client wants to change the "Large White Top mat and very small Blue second mat".The artist attached two small strips across the top and bottom of the work at the rear of the bottom mat (I assume to allow dust to accumulate or to keep the sand paper from abrassing the bottom mat away or both) I plan to lay the 8572 btm. mat on the work and reverse the bevels while installing a fom-board spacer between it and a sand colored top mat to allow any dust to fall between them and not collect on the visible beveled edges.
But will the "SAND PAPER" add any other problems?
BUDDY
The artist matted it herself rather nicely ,but the client wants to change the "Large White Top mat and very small Blue second mat".The artist attached two small strips across the top and bottom of the work at the rear of the bottom mat (I assume to allow dust to accumulate or to keep the sand paper from abrassing the bottom mat away or both) I plan to lay the 8572 btm. mat on the work and reverse the bevels while installing a fom-board spacer between it and a sand colored top mat to allow any dust to fall between them and not collect on the visible beveled edges.
But will the "SAND PAPER" add any other problems?
BUDDY