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Seattle Skyline Art

The Needle and the wheel, drawn without stopping.

Seattle Skyline Mug
Seattle Skyline Mug
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Seattle Skyline Canvas Print
Seattle Skyline Canvas Print
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Seattle gives a one-line artist two gifts and a problem. The two gifts are the Space Needle and the waterfront wheel. The problem is that everything between them is a rectangle.

What is in the drawing

Low blocks open the left, then a tower with a peaked cap, and then the Space Needle: a saucer on a waisted stem with the mast running up out of it, the tallest thing in the drawing by a clear margin. A slender spired tower and a box-crowned high-rise carry the middle. Then the wheel, drawn as a full circle with cabins hung around its rim and an A-frame support underneath, which is the only closed shape on the page. Two plain slabs finish the right.

Mug or canvas

Of the ten cities with a page here, this is the one whose proportions almost exactly match a canvas, three units across to two down. It fills the face with very little margin left over, which none of the others manage. The wheel is part of why: a full circle takes up real height in the middle of the run, where most skylines have a dip.

Other cities

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