No, I'm not talking about putting a mat and frame on your watercolor. A very old compositional technique is to place an object in the foreground to look past or around at the focal point. The foreground object acts as a frame around the primary subject.
This scene is right outside my window here in Eastpoint looking down the Apalachicola River Basin. The palm tree in the foreground serves to frame the dock. Right now those palm fronds are blowing in the stiff breeze coming off the estuary.
In photography and painting, peeking around the corner helps to give a context for the subject as well as keeping the eye in the picture area.
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