Pastel Brownstones on a New York Street Canvas Print sleeping teal and cream

teal and cream

There's a reason illustrators keep returning to the morning ritual

Hang it and a flat wall gains depth — the eye keeps wandering between teal pockets

Eye-level when standing

Don't put it next to anything sleek or chrome — the personality flattens and it starts to look like a stock illustration

Pastel Brownstones on a New York Street Canvas Print sleeping teal and creamBefore anyone mentions the painterly illustration style, notice what the soft pink does to plaster and pale timber. The sky tone lifts cream and oat walls and warms up a cool room. The street pulls the eye down the page coral, mustard and pink fronts, dark awnings, a stray yellow cab. It brings a bit of life to a quiet wall without shouting. It works above a sideboard in the living room, on a hallway wall by the front door, or in a bright kitchen