Unbeknownst to most people who know him, Brian has a secret love for art. Every time we go to a decent-sized city, he inevitably seeks out the free museums, and we spend more time there than I thought possible. Whenever we visit the Met, for example, my feet ache so much by the end that I am just dying to sit down. I don't dislike art, don't get me wrong, not at all. I love art, but just not with the fervor that Brian does. His favorite form of art: prints. They're pretty amazing. These fantastic artists carve pictures into wood, then put ink on the wood and 'print' them onto paper. They are incredibly detailed, and the most amazing part is that the artist has to carve a negative of the picture they want to turn out on the paper. It is fascinating, really.
Anyway, we especially like prints that depict farm life, but we can't afford to get a nice copy of the print. So, Brian gets an electronic copy of the print and just prints it out on beige paper. It looks pretty good... so much so that you can't really tell a difference between the purchased print and the homemade ones in the picture above.
Mats and frames are expensive. We buy our frames at dollar stores or thrift stores and polish them up with black spray paint. Seriously a hideous frame can become beautiful with a little paint!
To solve the mat problem, we just use poster board to mat our pictures. In the case of the prints, we make a nice, torn edge on the picture, and place it over some plain black poster board. It looks great! I don't notice that the picture is on top of the mat, and it gives it the same effect. You could do this with other colors of poster board, but we stick with black. Other examples of pictures matted in this way:
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