I'm talking about images here. There are times when I think that I should make an image a little bit bigger. OK, maybe a whole lot bigger. You have seen this image before:
It is called Beltline Boogie and was done originally as a giclee print from my original drawing that was 4x3 feet. But then fate, in the guise of the North Carolina Department of Transportation, took a hand and sponsored a contest looking for images in which to wrap Raleigh's city buses. I entered and a few weeks later Beltline took to the streets supersized and wrapped around a full size city bus. It was a very, very cool feeling to see Beltline cruise by my office window.
That was as big as I ever went. But big retained its attraction. The next sort-of-supersized image followed the giclee process. It sits above my "marker storage desk" and measures 4x5 feet.
It is called Through Every Window, and I'm not sure if I have shared it with you before.
Back when I had a rather large office in Raleigh, my "go to" size was 4x3 feet giclees and I had a bunch of them. Here are a few:
But since that time I have pretty much stayed with the 20x24 inch format that you recently viewed. But recently the "go big or go home!" bug bit me again. It started with a photo I took of one of our Christmas pieces. A couple of wagons with no horses:
Which, naturally I felt compelled to turn into a template for a drawing:
Of which I did a couple of versions:
But that is when the "big bug" bit. You see those images are only a small part of a much larger concept that measures 46x36 inches:
Horseless Carriages
This is about half of the image in process. Too big to fit comfortably on my drawing table, so I shift it around. And there is an awful lot of white space left to be filled. Sigh.
I'll keep you posted.
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