Decisions, decision...

[telophase]

So that big space above the dresser in the office area is bothering me, and I had an idea ... I refuse to decorate with anime posters in my apartment, but I don't have a problem with very nice artsy manga-type stuff like my paintings of Manji and Anotsu XD.

I ended up paging through a couple of manga artbooks until I found two pics that didn't have colors I hated, were nice and stark, and didn't go to the edge of the page, so I wouldn't completely break the spine of the book when I scanned them.



So ... does it work in this spot?



I don't have a particular liking for Wild Adapter, but it's got the best pictures that fit my parameters. These aren't the final versions - they're pritned out on draft and loosely taped to the mat, and the mats were taped to the wall temporarily while I took the photo. If I think it works, I'll get a couple of simple 16x20" frames and nail them up properly. (THe tape was startign to come off and making itneresting noises, which is why the cat stood up and stared at them before gettign distracted by something outside the window.)






The cat has found something that fits in this space.







 

Comments

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

They look good. Have you considered offsetting them a bit? Putting one a little higher and the other a little lower, for example?

And that? Is the perfect Catspot. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Something like this?

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

pretty cool, and I see Kitty was still sitting on the scraching post type thing for both photos.

I have a completly unrelated questine, what is writen on you cats red tag?

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

Exactly, except that they seem to need to move a little closer to the.. well, I assume that's the kitchen pass-through there on the left hand side of the picture? They look just a little off-centre to me. (Realising, of course, that you're just taping them up to try, naturally.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's the rabies tag the vet gives her. :) It's got the vet's address and phone number on it, nothing fancy. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I realized when I got to the other side of teh room they were probably off a bit, but didn't bother to go back and fix them. :)

(The next thing - what goes over the TV? XD I've got a child's kimono and vest, but I think they may go on the funky-angled wall)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* Or on the wall above the other dresser, which I don't think I've put in any photo here. XD

[tgreywords.livejournal.com]

You have paintings of Manji and Anotsu? :D I think they should go up on zee wall!

(*doesn't have an Anotsu icon! WOE!*)

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

The top of my television stand is a "family shrine". I've got a dozen pictures there. Over top of all of that is a framed Robert Bateman print. (I've got a picture if you're curious.) I really wouldn't recommend it. I LIKE it, because it keeps my family close, but it can be a bit distracting. Stick with something simple.

What about that desert picture that you did a while back? Or a really stark, black and white 10x13 or 11x14, landscape orientation picture.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I think having the two pictures there seems to make it all look a bit busy, if you could find a wide horizontal picture in a simple frame I think it'd look nice. Or maybe a movie poster... But I understand not everyone likes movie posters and it may be hard to come by one from an anime. I guess it doesn't really matter though if you have your back to it for most of the time though :)

I'm afraid my eyes kept wandering over to your bookcases with an envious glance too. You do seem to have an awful lot of what look like the "How to Draw Manga" books. I also tried to see if I had any of the books you had on the cat picture, it turns out I don't *grin* My quest to expand my already bloated "how to draw anything at all" book range must continue ever onwards!

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I of course meant a picture which was landscape rather than portrait. I seem to have lost the power of cognitive thought... I shall remove myself to that place where all the other zombies are.

[herchuckness.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what a good idea. *starts flipping through Sugar Coat*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No, I'm not decorating with anime posters, or with movie posters. I am not a college student any longer and I want art on my walls. :) Basically, if it's got words on it, I don't want it up. :) (I'm, er ... rather opinionated on the subject of what goes on my walls. XD)

There's an option - moving them closer together to give the illusion of one picture, like this:

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Anotsu ain't budgin' from above my bed, and Manji's too tall and skinny to go in that space. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think a tall, skinny picture would fit better above my TV than a wide one:

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

Ah-hah. I had it in my head as being wider. I think that's just because my entertainment unit is really wide. You know what would look awesome there, and I don't know about the feasibility of this for you, but I'd put something like a Chinese wallscroll there.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D That actually sounds quite intereting. I'll have to consider it. Thanks!

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

I realised that Chinese wall scroll could mean those awful tacky bamboo things, as well as what I had in mind. I was thinking of something along the lines of this.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD I figured that's what you meant. :D I'll have to measure the area and see what I can find.

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

I'd hate to have been responsible for a terrible home fashion faux pas. ;D

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. Is that The Elder God on your bookcase?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Yes. :) Painted in watercolor on acrylic board, which means that the paint is slowly flaking off. XD

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

w00t~ Keyboard of Geek Cred +2.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD

Ya know, the more I look at the two pictures in this configuration (http://www.livejournal.com/users/telophase/392246.html?thread=3119414#t3119414), the more I think I like that - it's tight enough to fake being one landscape-oriented pic. I think I may do this.

[tekenduis.livejournal.com]

I like that a lot, actually.

[llamameeljueves.livejournal.com]

I am here for the cat.....*winks*


wow...you have a Chilton book...probably one of the last things I would have thought you could have...What car(s) is it?

I really like the drawings in the back wall (of your desk)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's actually for drawing reference. :) It's a Hyundai book, but I don't actually own a Hyundai - it was jsut the right size car.

Not that I happen to have ended up using it...

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Your Anotsu painting is spectacular-- that's probably my favorite single panel not only in Blade of the Immortal but in the entirety of my experience of manga, and you've got it beautifully. Every time I read that volume I totally lose track of the story because I just sit there staring at it.

As far as the wall leading into the kitchen-- the one caveat I'd have about the two pics you're thinking of is that they seem to be black and white with touches of color here and there and stark black bordering, and given that your walls are beige and the rest of your decor is the multi-color that one gets from book spines and mixed fabric, you might want something with a little more color to keep the area of the pictures from becoming dead space when seen against the rest of the room. The eye doesn't do the white-and-black-space-Zen-rest-there thing because the pictures do have a lot of black in complex lines as well as the solid bordering, so my eye at least tends to fail to register the interior of the pictures as more than a sort of tangle inside the heavy black rectangles of the border.

What I think I'd do is find or color a small swatch of cloth or fabric to match the color of the flowers (?) the two of them are holding, and then use that to fill in the strip between the two frames in the arrangement where they're closest together (the pic directly up-thread from this). Just a thin red line, cutting off at the top and bottom of the frames; I think it would tie the pictures together as a unit and stop the area from being less visually interesting than the beige. Of course, this is me, and I have an odd anti-beige prejudice, so I could be on crack.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I did screw up on his proportions a bit and make his butt too small, but I eventually noticed that when I'm lying on the bed looking up at it, the magic of parallax makes his butt the correct size. And, really, when you're in the bedroom are you more often standing up and looking at the art, or are you lying down and looking at the art? XD

What about thin red/burgundy/whatever color that is frames?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* sicne thy'er currently matted, but not framed - I need to go buy the frames.

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

That's the exact place where my cat sleeps in our house. Of course, that space is empty right now only because the washer used to leak out from behind that wall and that shelf was wet...but now that the washer has moved house, it's a safe spot for cat. She thinks I left it that way just for her.

[seajules]

Oooh, I like that. But then, I'm a raving fan of Wild Adapter, but it's the arrangement of the frames that gives the area balance, I think, without making it too busy. That and KuboToki hotness, yay. *G*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

But of course you did. The house belongs to the cat; they just let us live here because we have opposable thumbs and can open doors.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D It suite me better, I think, because I'm not a fan of clustering several small items together into an arangement, but I prefer large artwork isntead. And I'm thinking on the suggestion elsewhere of adding a touch of red to match the flowers by getting thin red frames to surround the black mats.

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

I think frames either matching the flowers or in a slightly darker red-- like one of the red woods, cherry or rowan or something like that, and then put them up next to one another. But not a really really dark red/brown like mahogany or it'll clash and you'll lose the color effect. And yeah, thin is good. I think that would end up looking really cool. I like the pics, and I think more color will bring out how nifty they are.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The red's pretty dark - the above pics are printed on draft, so the ink is lighter. This is the pic:



I'm now getting all excited about it. XD

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny. That's gonna be lovely. And yeah, with that you may even want to go with mahogany... it's wonderful how deeply gorgeous and classy some manga/anime art can look with the right positioning/framing/matting. (We have a pic of the maskmaker from Blade of the Immortal that looks like a deranged ukiyo-e, which made me *so* happy. And at some point I need to take pictures of What We Did With Our Gankutsuou poster, because I am very very proud. XD)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Niiiice. :D Take photos! I wanna see! Both! XD

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't have movie posters either, but my sister has a couple in her front room. It's rather weird really since the rest of her house has been decorated up to look very middle class and "posh" and yet she has to have her Lost Boys movie poster take pride of place on the wall *grin* However, enough of my rambling!

I think this option looks far better than when they were spaced out, it works well and gives the same kind of appearance as I was thinking of with just one huge landscape orientated picture. Keeps everything neat and tidy so your eye isn't wandering all over the wall :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I figured out part of the busyness in the picture was also the throw over the back of the futon in the forground. I ended up tucking it into the frame on the back (its sole purpose is to disguise the framework on the back of the futon) so you can't see it from that angle, and it's calmed the view down considerably. XD