The Great Northern Wall paintings

frompureair · Post by **frompureair** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 9:05 am

Does anyone have any good HD pics of the paintings from the great northern mainly I want the one from the wall in Ben's office for a screensaver. feel free to discuss the art of the great northern here.

qbin2001 · Post by **qbin2001** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:19 am

frompureair wrote:Does anyone have any good HD pics of the paintings from the great northern mainly I want the one from the wall in Ben's office for a screensaver. feel free to discuss the art of the great northern here.

Recreated from the series screen caps.

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Post by **Ross** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:24 am

Q- that is AWESOME!!!

Post by **Jerry Horne** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 11:26 am

Great job Qbin!

qbin2001 · Post by **qbin2001** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 1:38 pm

I'm glad you like it.

I LOOOOVE all those Great Northern's paintings and I will recreate all of them someday.

It took few days to recreate scalable painting, but I'm going to paint it on my wooden wall on the next room renovation (much smaller then Ben's office paint - my room is much, much smaller

), so I needed big template. Desktop wallpaper is just a little treasure form my eyes until that time.

Enjoy!

frompureair · Post by **frompureair** » Wed Oct 07, 2015 5:23 pm

brilliant that shall do just fine!

hopesfall · Post by **hopesfall** » Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:25 am

Q, that's fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing what else you've got in store! What you've got planned for your room sounds great.

the haystack · Post by **the haystack** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:57 am

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the haystack · Post by **the haystack** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 9:11 am

frompureair wrote: feel free to discuss the art of the great northern here.

This has been interesting for a long time. The art seen throughout the Great Northern and GN sound stages is probably generated from the initial filming in the Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, situated on the Kitsap peninsula across the Sound from Seattle, westward. I think that wall image you're working with above is/was actually part of the lodge artwork, not from a soundstage. I know I saw it once a dozen years ago. It is highly typical of the Coast Salish peoples which are made up of many tribes saturating the Washington coast all the way up to the Queen Charlottes in BC, and beyond.

But, Twin Peaks is not on the coast, or even near. The artwork would not be accurate if Twin Peaks was really located where the map shows. The real Great Northern and its doppelganger, One Eyed Jacks would be squarely seated in the Okanagon Valley whose artwork would be dominated by the Syilx first nation, whose culture and ethnicity are part of the Interior Salish peoples, not the Coast Salish peoples. (There's a massive mountain range of separation.)

The part I like, and I don't think anyone on the writer's staff knows this, is that the general thematic look of Syilx art looks much closer to the Owl Cave petroglyph than it does the Great Northern (Kiana). Check out this artifact http://sncewipsmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibits/

garmonbozia8 · Post by **garmonbozia8** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:32 pm

qbin2001 wrote:
frompureair wrote:Does anyone have any good HD pics of the paintings from the great northern mainly I want the one from the wall in Ben's office for a screensaver. feel free to discuss the art of the great northern here.
Recreated from the series screen caps.

bens_office_1920x1080.jpg

Amazing job!

But has anyone noticed that the middle face (second from bottom) has eyes shaped like Saturn? Brings to mind the Saturn Lamp in the Red Room.

Fly the Coop · Post by **Fly the Coop** » Fri Mar 04, 2016 2:53 am

Just found this, great pic! Now saved

As soon as I saw it it struck of how everything on both sides is paired, however with minor changes that are hard to notice, much like dopplegangers or vessels. There's a clear happier looking "hand face" at the bottom, suggesting good and bad. The only part which is the same both sides is the face stuck in the middle with saturn as eyes, trapped in the middle, looking worried.

Anyway, probably been discussed before! All new to me!

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