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Came across a few things of interest to me, and maybe you.  I'm stuck in a rut at the moment not doing much, and not liking the few things I've done.  So I tend to procrastinate, and there's nothing better for procrastination than the internet. Look at this blokes work...Sean Sullivan...he draws these with a sharpie (Or rather, bucket loads of sharpies, I expect).  And I'm dithering over filling A3 size pics. Here's another pic.   The ladder is 4 feet high... This looks a useful easel. Ever wondered where to hang your pictures?  These are photos, but paintings would work as well.  People are odd, from the rest of the flat the occupiers look like minimalists, but you couldn't have a busier wall. Ah well, back to procrastinating.
Love a bit of procrastination (it can get expensive too).  Sean's work is amazing.  Not sure if I could ever put my art on a wall like that although it's a good idea - I think my husband would divorce me!
Wow, love the Sean Sullivan work. Reminds me scale-wise of some of the great masters huge paintings as I always wonder how they coped with the size. Couldn’t pop a 10 foot canvas on your easel could you!?
Yes Tessa, these mega paintings are astonishing achievements...a 10 foot painting is the equivalent of a quick sketch for them.  There are plenty of artists working in this scale.  This is by Yusuke Asai, he's used acrylic and earth to paint this room. The problem is what do you do with these massive paintings?  At some point this room, and its floor, will be painted over.  Below is a pic of Alphonse Mucha with some of the paintings for his 'Slav Epic.'  That's him sat in the chair.  These giant oil paintings were on canvass, so I suppose they can be rolled up.  Apparently Mucha always dreamt of an Art Gallery built primarily to house the twelve giant paintings for the 'epic.'  It never happened.  Occasionally they are shown, but that in itself is an enormous undertaking.  Brilliant as these paintings are, I prefer his Art Nouveau posters...these made him famous and allowed him to make the Slav Epic paintings. I posted this thread because I'd been staring at blank A4 and A3 pages, too lethargic to do anything...looked up pen & ink art - hoping for inspiration - and found the Sean Sullivan drawings with a 'sharpie.'  What happens to these drawings, who can display them?  Even an Art Gallery would struggle. 
I also like Mucha’s poster work, very stylish. Re size I remember seeing Monet’s Water Lilies at the National gallery a year or so back, a handful of them in a large room, big and fantastic to see close up. As you say Lew, big canvases like that are rolled to move. There’s obviously technique and skill to that. I would be petrified of rolling a painting up, but obviously it can be done if you know how. As regards procrastination and distraction, I was just planning to get painting this morning when the new Ken Bromley catalogue popped through my letterbox so that obviously has to be browsed at some time. Can’t beat a good art catalogue!