I enjoyed it and, if Kim reads this, it was all done in Artrage - in a mixture of oils and crayons.
http://www.digitalartquirks.com/phot...o=7079&cat=582
I have no idea how the size of pictures is managed by the website system but there is no rhyme or reason to it as sometimes pictures are sized down to as low as the 30kbs (as in my Matisse), losing a lot of definition in the process. This isn't something new. It has always been this way.