Sprawling Nature-Inspired Mural Drawn Entirely with a Sharpie


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After seven long months of work, California-based artist Sean Sullivan finished Grand Pale Maw, an expansive drawing that covered the wall of a hallway in the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) gallery. Using just a black marker, the artist started drawing with the image of a fallen oak tree in his mind, but his imagination quickly took off from there as he painstakingly drew heaps of rotting wood, fallen branches, knots and fissures, wild grass and plants, bushy leaves, and even a massive whale. The amount of detail in the mural is breathtaking, as each closer look reveals another aspect of the piece.

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2 Comments

  1. Amazing what a person with a passion can do. But he must be uncomfortable on a ladder. He could use a construction man-lift, or a higher chair, lol. But, then again, what ever works.

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