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
The page is a symmetrical square, built the way a window is built. A rose sits at the exact centre with its petals coiled small and tight. Around it opens a ring of large petals, then a band of curved leading, then outer rings divided into short rectangular panes, and finally a border with a leaf shape in each corner. Every shape is closed by a solid black contour, and the panes grow simpler as they move outward.
There are a great many separate areas to fill, from the tight coil at the middle to the wide panes at the rim.
How people colour it
Symmetry hands you a plan. The usual approach is to choose three or four colours and repeat them around each ring, which produces the glass effect without any shading skill, because the black leading does the work of separating them. Starting at the centre and working outward keeps your hand off the parts you have already filled.
If you want it to read as real glass, vary the pressure inside each pane rather than between panes, and leave the edge next to the black line lighter. It is a quiet, methodical page rather than a quick one.
Printing this one
The file is square, so on a portrait sheet you get a square image with a white band above and below. That is easy to work on and easy to trim. Print at actual size rather than fit to page so the square stays square.
Draft quality is the thing to avoid, because grey broken contours defeat the whole idea of leading. Anything beyond pencils needs heavier paper: alcohol markers go straight through ordinary printer paper, so at the very least put a spare sheet underneath.
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.