Digital BW, The Print

Here's what I do to flatten watercolors and other stuff on paper that
has a tendency to buckle:

Get a fine mist spray bottle and fill it with water. Lightly mist the
paper on the back on the back side, you want it damp, but not dripping.
Put the paper between two sheets of blotter paper, and put a flat board
- like a piece of 3/4 plywood - on top. Put some weights on top of the
board, then forget about it for a day or two.

Usually takes out all the waves and leaves stuff flat enough for
framing.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tucker <mark@...> [mailto:mark@...] 

I think this is an issue that I have not resolved yet. Purists really 
frown on dry-mounting, so I don't want to go there. 

I thought maybe some type of very stiff backing board, inside the 
frame, behind the rear mat, might provide enough pressure, and 
enough stiffness, that it would take out the waviness, but then 
you run into space limitations inside the frame, in how many 
layers of material you can cram in there.

Still a work in progress, for sure.

MT, http://www.marktucker.com/