Moonleaf
€9digital download, nothing is posted
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What you get
- The artwork at full resolutionPNG, 4096 by 4096 pixels, 300 dpi, prints to 35 x 35 cm
- A printing guidepaper, quality setting and actual size, written for this kind of art
- A licence for personal useprint it as often as you like for your own home, and as a gift
- Immediate downloadthe file is there at once and by email, nothing is posted
Sizes it prints at
One file, several sizes. The largest is 35 x 35 cm, which is the master at its full 4096 by 4096 pixels. Printing it smaller only raises the density, so anything below that size is sharper again.
- 35 x 35 cm297 dpi, the full file, nothing trimmed
- 30 x 30 cm347 dpi, fits inside a portrait sheet
- 21 x 21 cm495 dpi, sits on A4 with a wide margin
What is in the picture
A small house stands slightly off centre: a tiled roof drawn shingle by shingle, a brick chimney, a window set into the roof, an arched front door with a lantern beside it, and windows with square panes. Bare branching trees rise behind the roofline. In front of the house the whole lower half of the page is a flower bed, with large open blooms at the bottom edge and smaller ones as it recedes towards the walls, and a path of irregular stones runs from the bottom of the page up to the door.
The flowers are drawn largest where they are closest to you. That is what gives the page its depth.
How people colour it
This one rewards being taken in stages. Most people start with the flowers, which are the loosest part, then the roof, which is the most repetitive, and leave the windows and the door until last. The path is a good place to practise a gradient, since every stone is a separate shape and each can take a slightly different grey or sand tone.
The dense foreground means it takes considerably longer than it looks. It suits several evenings rather than one.
Printing this one
The detail is finest in the roof tiles and in the branches behind the house, and those are the areas that fill in and go muddy at small sizes or in draft mode. Print at high quality and at actual size. If you plan to work with pencils, pick paper with a little tooth so that the flower heads can take several layers without the surface going shiny.
What is in every download
The artwork at its full resolution, a printing guide written for this kind of art, and a licence for your own walls. Nothing is posted. The file is yours to keep and to print again whenever a room changes.