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A print can differ in size from the original painting - pros and cons

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A print can differ in size from the original painting - pros and cons

There was something my friend and mentor said about changing the size of the original image. "Then the brush strokes does not match your size, it distorts your perspective and therefore the picture".
She meant that the size of the brush I chose for painting represent what I actually see in the moment of attention to the leafs, trying to catch them as truthfully I can with color on a flat canvas. When enlarging or diminishing that moment of attention which is possible in a print, the strokes will be of a giant, in a giants perspective or of a midget in a midgets perspective. The leaf will become incredible large or small as well. The proportions, the perspective on the world from a human scale will be distorted.
Yes, she really has a point.
But this can be a part of the expression too, of course.
And, personally I am quite fascinated by scaling up painted pictures in order to see the brushstrokes in large. To discover other worlds, unintentionally made by the strokes mix of colors. Worlds that can only be visible when enlarged. And I am particularly fond of seeing the grains in watercolor come out evidently. Revealing their behavior in the water while dried out on the paper. Beautiful little mini worlds will become visible by enlargement.