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Cutting, Carving & Decorating Mats

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B85x 96 pages 8-1/2x11

Renowned expert Brian Wolf shares his wealth of knowledge about mat cutting and decoration in this new 96 page book. How to choose color combinations and design well-proportioned mats; multi-angles, V-grooves, inlays, color panels, and Brian’s unique mat carving techniques. Included patterns to trace for mat carving. Brian’s favorite tips and tricks, making traditional ink lines with ruling pens, and much more!
Table of Contents
Introduction 7 Style Using Color Designing Mats Chapter One The Mat Cutter 9 Head Adjustment The Mat Cutter Guide Blade Depth Measuring Stops 12 The Calibration Procedure Calibration Tips Chapter Two Cutting Mats 15 Cutting technique Squaring Matboards Using a Slip Sheet Cutting a Single Mat 16 Reverse Bevels Cutting 8-ply Mats Double Mats 18 Triple Mats 19 Weighted Bottoms 20 Cutting a Mat With a Wider Bottom Double Opening Mats 21 Marking the Measurements Cutting the Top Mat Cutting the Second Side Cutting the Divider The Inner Mat V-grooves 25 V-Groove I V-groove II Angled Corner V-Grooves Inlays 29 Troubleshooting Grooving the Inlay Double Inlays Open Grooves 32 Cutting an Open Groove Mat Variations Mitered Corners Offsets 35 Cutting a Single Offset Double Mats with Offsets Double Offsets Triple Offsets Combinations of Offsets Insets 38 Cutting Square Insets Cutting Rectangular Insets Installation of Insets Designs Angled Cuts 41 The Angle Guide Angled (Slant Corner) Mats Making a Slant Corner Mat Angled Cuts & Measuring Stops Calibrating Measuring Stops Cutting a Slant Corner Mat Using Stops Cutting the Inner Mat Slant Notch Corners Cutting Slant Notch Corners Slant Corners with Double Notch Angled Cut Combinations Art Deco Corners Basic Art Deco Corner The Inner Mat	Chapter Three Mat Carving 50 The X-Acto Knife Holding Technique Cutting Technique Carving a Design 52 Tips for Deep Carving Carving a Mat 54 Finding Designs Designs for Carving Carving Images in Mats Placement of Carved Designs Using V-Grooves with Carved Designs Making the Partial Groove Adding the Carved Design Monograms & Inscriptions Tracing the Letters Placement Transferring Letters to the Mat Negative and Positive Carving Less is More Chapter Four Mat Decoration 65 Conservation and Decorative Matting Matboard Tapes Art Materials Colored Powders Inks Paints Marbled Papers Preservation vs. Presentation Marbled Paper Panels 67 Adhesives Cutting the Strips Layout for the Panel Mitered Corners Alternative Corners Diagonal Corners Block Corners Pinched Corners Splicing Pinwheel Bevel Extensions 75 Wrapping Foam Board Strips Cutting the Reverse Bevels Assembly Ink Lines 78 The Ruling Pen Marking Placement of Lines Drawing the Lines Coloring Panels 82 The Masking Method Coloring the Panel The Stencil Method 84 Making the Stencil Stencils with 3/4" Tape Stencils for Ovals Tips for Using Stencils The Resist Trick 87 Patina 89 The Background The Paper Towel Applying the Paint Variations Adding the Patina The Eraser Trick 91 Troubleshooting Artistic Technique Painted Bevels 94

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