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I was going ballistic for a few days after going through so much trouble the past month creating a painting that was so much trouble there was NO WAY I was settling for the ridiculous matting issue I faced, let me begin; finding proper watercolour paper and then not finding it but taking what I did find and then having to learn how to stretch it causing me three times of purchasing new paper and a board to stretch it on, then finding a staple gun and also a staple gun stapler remover during lockdown in India, haha, take that for perseverance!  Then, working with non professional watercolours and brushes that lost hairs as I painted and also moving from S. India to N. India hoping it wouldn't get crushed in my suitcase through the not very reliable plastic roll I was carrying it in.  Then I have moved two times into a new place with this painting hoping to get it matted and framed nice for some kind of nice decor in my room and to admire my work, hehe.  I also had added some soft chalk pastels to my work so had to make sure the framer didn't mess that up by touching the paper when he matted my painting which he did.

I went twice to the framer to find out he didn't mat it right, he actually cut the mat too large for the painting so the edges showed and weren't covered not to mention he doesn't have a mat cutter so it was just plain ol' cardboard and I had asked for white but it was a white beige which I didn't notice until I got it home and hung on my white wall.  On the back of  the painting he didn't put any hanging wire and he also didn't put in the side panels from which to hang it in right place which is supposed to be about 1/3 down the piece of art so when you hang it it hangs down at a slight angle so as to not catch the light due to the glass that covers the painting. 

Biting the bullet for a few days staring at my beige mat that didn't let the white in the painting POP I just couldn't stand it anymore. The whole idea of the white mat especially for a watercolour painting that uses the paper as the white in the painting and also shows the professionalism of the artist in the non-use of white paint, I went on a desperate search for white paint to paint the mat! I found it in a small side shop here in town and so today I have remedied my obsession with perfection and rehung the silly brackets on the back...the name of this creation is "Gung-Ho Guava" and if I didn't have any "gung-ho" in me I would slit my wrists. NOMASKE indeed. (I am allowed to rant at times!)