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Hinging Mats: Archival Methods Expert How-to Guide is a comprehensive and well-illustrated article about how to create a hinged mat for your artwork on paper.
The authors are experts in the provision of archival, storage and presentation supplies and are based in New York State. 
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MY TIP: The one thing I'd add is that every time I do one of these I find it incredibly helpful if - BEFORE I cut the mat from the mountboard - I mark the INSIDE of the two mats with a large pencil cross. That way I make sure I put the two pieces of mat together the right way round. Required materials: for those living in the UK
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My page about matting artworks is in draft and will be putting in an appearance soon. I just need to do some diagrams!
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- stops communicating?
- disappears?
- unplugs for the last time - and dies suddenly?
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RECOMMENDED READING: I commend the post to those who are very dependent on A. N. Other for their online art business for an account of what can happen when it really happens - and your "tech guy" dies.
How to avoid being left in limbo
However I also recognise that as your art business builds you will need help - and that means employing experts to help you do things you need to do with your art business - including the tech side of being online. Whether it's building, maintaining and developing your website, making a video for your online classes or building a subscription based forum for your teaching online.
The thing is you ALWAYS need to remain in control if you want to be secure your art business and your art income.
That means:
- YOU cannot allow another person to have total control over your website - you must manage the risks of them "falling under a bus"
- YOU must ALWAYS own your own domain name - in your name - not the name of your tech guy. Otherwise the credibility that you build for that domain name is owned by him not you.
- YOU must ALWAYS have access to your own website - as well as your tech guy. That means knowing ALL the relevant passwords. That means thinking very hard before building functionality for systems that he had a licence for but you don't
- YOU must have access at all times to your email subscription database - otherwise you might have to build it all over again from scratch - but without being able to email them to tell them. Plus you MUST have a written agreement with your "tech guy" about the security of that data.
- YOU run a major risk if your system is a one-off built by the tech. guy and not understood by anybody else. That could mean starting again from scratch if he disappears!
So if you need help to run the tech side of your art business life online think about the "what ifs"
- what if he's not around any more - what do you not have access to, what parts of your online life are in jeopardy?
- what if you argue and/or he holds you to ransom re. the increase in his fee. This has happened to people I know more times than I thought possible!
- what if you want to move your website to another tech guy - do you have an agreement in places for how this happens - sensibly and efficiently?
Identify the risks - and manage them
- The specific RISKS of every aspect of the tech. side of your art business
- The nature of the IMPACT on your art business life (time/effort) and income ($/£000) if your tech guy disappeared/was no longer available and/or no longer working for you
- identify how to REDUCE YOUR RISKS and what action you need to take to reduce each specific risk eg agreements as to your access to the systems which support your business
Remember even the best of chums can fall out - or your "tech guy" can suddenly die. So even if your tech guy is the best tech guy ever, you MUST have a fail-safe plan that works in your back pocket.
However it deserves a dedicated page - and now it's got one. Last week I set up a new page in the Shipping section of this website - dedicate to how to wrap and pack pastel artworks for shipping.
Objective - your pastel artwork gets to where it needs to be in one piece and with no "pastel drop".
It includes advice and links to information from people who have packed and shipped pastel paintings all over the world.
It's also relevant to all those returning from summer holidays with pastel artworks packed in the bottom of their suitcase. The principle is the same - and if you follow it you'll have no accidents to either artwork or the rest of the contents of your suitcase! I've brought pastel paintings back from Greece, France, Italy, Bali and the USA without a problem. You can too....
Image: part of The Concord Meadow by Childe Hassam gouache and pastel on canvas
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