Imaginary Lands

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I bought a beautiful vintage credenza to replace some of my old Ikea shelves, unfortunately revealing a battle scarred wall. Since I really didn’t want to repaint (I’d tried that on a small alcove, not fun) I decided a salon hanging was the best way to go. Of course, filling a 19′ long wall with art is usually rather costly, and with all my recent furniture purchasing I knew I couldn’t justify spending much on the wall itself. Luckily I had my Craft Robo Pro, an idea and some pens.

The theme of the Great Living Room Redesign of 2011/12 is cartography. Well, maybe it’s also Mid-Century and walnut, but it’s definitely also cartography. In keeping with this theme, I gathered up maps from various books I read as a child, those I read now, TV shows with interesting geography and even an XKCD comic. Of course, all these sources were much too small to cover the wall, so I vectorized and laid them all out in Illustrator. I drew them with a (well, actually about eight) Sign pens onto pulp board. All told I think the wall cost me about $40 in materials, though it took hours and hours to draw (in the computer) and draw (with my Robo).

I’m pretty pleased with the result.