Our paintings have thousands of strokes each — many more than are visible to the naked eye, but which contribute to the depth and three-dimensionality of the final result.

Quality paint pigments can't be mimicked by ink colours (like those used in printing). No two strokes — and no two paintings — are perfectly identical.

Your brain lights up when you look at painted art — your motor neurons work to imagine how the artist performed each stroke. Prints just aren't the same as a real painting.