Frame sizes

[Marty1985]

I'm a new digital artist and I have been told by friends and family to start selling my art, but when it comes to frame sizes I'm a little stumped.

This might be a silly question, but will an A3 size image fit in an A3 frame with no mount, or does it need to be a bigger frame?

And when it comes to an A3 with mount, is it an A4 mount that I need?

Any replies would be appreciated.

I don't think there is a standard size for a mount so it depends how wide the mount is. But an A3 frame should fit an A3 picture.
The range, home base have some.
Ime the frame is the most expensive part so I would make pics to fit the frames and not the other way round.

We ran a bespoke framing business for 30 years. My advice would be buy the frame and mount first, from somewhere like The Range or Dunelm. Then print your artwork to fit the frame. It is much cheaper than producing your artwork and then buying bespoke made frames. We dealt with an artist who produced lovely landscapes of the area, but he had tge pictures printed in slightly different sizes, just a few mm. When we bought a selection in to sell it was a pita. If he had chosen a couple of sizes and stuck to them it we could have batch made the frames in the same size. I know about artistic integrity, but people would often want 2 or 3 pics to hang side by side, and the differing sizes made that look asymmetrical.

I get the headache. I've just opened up my own Etsy shop.

What I'm doing is sticking to A4 and maybe A3 paper sizes, as these will fit A4 and A3 frames. I'm then bordering the actual print image within the A4 or A3 paper, so that white space surrounds the print image. This is more pleasing to the eye. Customer can then just place inside a frame.

I did consider matting, but the majority of customers, I imagine, don't care, and will opt for the cheapest frame.

If someone does want to go the expensive path of custom matting, then they should be able to put one in front of the print so that the print image is exposed correctly.

Anyway, this is what I'm doing, not sure about everyone else.