When I shared this image on Facebook on November 16, 2024:
Alec commented:
The expressive lines at the top show up more clearly in the original than here. But if she chooses to print it she can control the color and contrast.
I responded:
Regarding the ‘original,’ my art is created digitally and every screen and monitor has its own settings of hue and saturation and contrast and value. So the original was created on my iPad, and what it looks like on your screen is very likely not the same. For that matter, when I look at it on my iPhone and on my PC laptop screen it is not the same either.
That is true for posting a photograph of a painting (created on canvas, wood, etc.) online or published in a book. For that matter, when that painting hung in my living room will look different than in your house or in a gallery depending on the lighting, and it will look different on sunny or a cloudy day.
As Alec wrote, if I am getting a print made with a local printer, I can work with them to control the color and contrast to some extent to get it to match what it looks like on the iPad I created it on.