Most rooms have a wall that gets all the attention and several that get none. The narrow strip beside a doorway. The wall going up the stairs, which you pass four times a day and never once look at. The shelf behind the kettle.
Those spots will not take a large painting. They will take a small one, and a small original does something a print never quite manages, which is to be the only one there is.
Here are four under ten inches.
Oldie But Goodie
Just the front of an old car. The grille, two round headlamps, and that soft seafoam green going pale where the light hits it, with a suggestion of trees reflected across the metal. You do not need the whole vehicle. The face of it says everything.
At this size every mark counts double, because there is nowhere to hide a loose one. See the original.
Chevy at The Beach
An orange pickup parked where the sand meets the hardstanding, ocean flat behind it, sky gone pale the way it does in the middle of a bright day. The orange is the whole painting. Everything else steps back to let it work.
Brown Cow
Close in on the face, ears out wide, that particular soft brown-into-cream that young cattle have around the muzzle. Pastel is well suited to an animal coat because you can lay the colour in and then break the edge of it with a finger, which is roughly what fur does anyway.
Mom Love
A giraffe and her calf, heads turned in towards each other, the warm orange of the patterning set against a deep green that pushes it forward. Of the four, this is the one I would put in a child room. It holds up there because it is not sentimental, just two animals standing close together.
There is exactly one of each of these. When one goes, it is gone, though a print is available for every piece here if the original has already found a wall.
The rest of the collection is in the gallery. If you are weighing up what size a particular wall can take, I will write about how to judge that at the end of the month.
— DawnE