Peacock on a Pine Branch Canvas Print

With a peacock on a pine branch, scale decides whether the dining room wakes up. Go too small and the long tail loses its run down the picture. At a proper size, the warm sand background reads as light on the wall, and the blue neck becomes the one bright note in the room. Hang it on a chimney breast, between two windows, or on the long wall above a sideboard where people sit and look at it. Dark wood, deep green upholstery, brass handles and warm off-white paint all suit it. Keep busy pattern away from it — striped wallpaper or a strong floral fights the tail feathers and you lose the detail. On canvas, the soft ground takes on a woven, silk-scroll feel and needs no glazing.