I seem to be in otter mode lately. When experimenting with Photoshop, I found that I could make my sea otters a lot bigger and they still worked. Because my work is very simple, if I enlarge the characters too much, I find they become less cute. So I tend to keep everything small. I just put in more of it.
But I also remembered when I did a holiday fair at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, to sell the gift line they produced from my work, they had taken my “Aquarium Field Trip” image and enlarged it to 10×48″. And it worked. I sat under it for the evening and took it home later on, when the evening was done. So I know, given enough pixels, my work can be enlarged a lot, and still look pretty good. So when I tired enlarging an otter with paint on canvas, and putting in more fur, and larger features, they worked too.
So, I’m in otter mode. I am very happy with the results too. One of the first ones I tried and took framed, to the gallery, made it till that evening before it found a new home. For a working artist, that’s the good stuff!
So, yes, more otters.
