![]() Painting on a fast and powerful computer, my final pieces are 30” x 40” at 300 pixels/inch. It’s annoying to buy a $30 print only to spend $100 or more to frame it because it’s a weird size, so I keep mine consistent. I tell market and Expo customers that every print is 11” x 14”, a typical off-the-shelf frame size you can buy at most stores and that often helps make the sale. Most of my paintings are 3:4 aspect ratio because that works best for my needs. When the art is for commercial prints and products, that also affects my composition choices. However, I can still push it a little because I have years of experience with my printer in Victoria and know what to expect. Thankfully, Photoshop provides several methods to detect areas where print problems might occur. So even though I would like to boost the greens in a piece like this, I must account for colour shift. I won’t get into boring technical jargon, but there is a much wider range of colours available on a screen than in print, and green is one of the most temperamental colours to print. Some have smooth-looking heads others look like they’re sporting a bob cut. Some sloths have shorter fur, some longer. Many photos I found showed a lot of green, but some almost none. Moths and beetles live in their hair as well. They use the algae to feed their young, and it provides camouflage. Even though sloths are light brown, they move so slowly that algae and fungi grow in their fur, giving them a green tint. I could have painted the sloth in warmer colours for more contrast with the background or added more leaves in front and behind. I chose an entire body pose rather than a closeup of the face and a full-foliage scene over a nondescript background. ![]() I’ve had so many requests for a sloth over the years that I decided to make it my first painting of 2023.Īs with most paintings, it came with unique challenges and choices.Ī sloth’s fur is coarse and wiry, with a bad-hair-day look, rather than the soft and smooth fur I enjoy painting most.
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