Hi John, thanks for the reply.
What do you mean by a brownish mount?
Unfortunately, where I live in southern Mexico they don't really
sell those precut mats, like in the US when I was a kid it was common to see three, like cream, a color, then cream, to frame watercolors and the like.
What we do have here is plenty of glass cutters, so I can just go and have any of a wide range of thicknesses of glass cut to order on the spot inexpensively.
I looked around a little on youtube after posting and saw this pallet
wood tutorial
The great thing about it, is there aren't any miter cuts in that plan..
This one also looked kind of nice, but I'm wondering if it will be very heavy in a larger size, and if it will protect the
art enough as it sandwiches the painting between two pieces of plexiglass (or glass--but as I said, it that too heavy?) Also, I feel like the purpose of having three mats, apart from aesthetics is to keep the painting from touching the glass, or am I way off?