Black and white wolf poster guide
A wolf poster rarely fails because of the drawing. It fails because of the size: too small, it floats in the middle of the wall; too large, it overwhelms the furniture beneath it. This page gives the real dimensions and the hanging rule that avoids both mistakes.
Poster or canvas: two different objects
The poster is a sheet of matte paper, which keeps reflections down, made for indoor use. No frame is included: you frame it, prop it on a shelf or put it up as it is. It is the flexible option, the cheapest, and the one that lets you change your mind in six months.
The stretched canvas — what is more commonly called a wolf painting — arrives stretched on its frame, with no glass and no extra framing. The finish is matte, which keeps reflections down in a very bright room. It comes in three portrait sizes only.
In other words: a poster if you want to build an arrangement and be able to rearrange everything, a canvas if you want a single piece hung once and for all.
Four sizes, and what each one is for
The poster comes in four sizes, all portrait: the A series, the one used by frames sold everywhere in France. No unusual size that would force you to have a frame made to measure.
| Size | Dimensions |
|---|---|
| A4 | 21 × 30 cm |
| A3 | 30 × 42 cm |
| A2 | 42 × 59 cm |
| A1 | 59 × 84 cm |
In practice: the A4 sits on a shelf or lines up in twos or threes along a hallway. The A3 is the all-rounder, the one that works above a desk or a bedside table. The A2 starts to become a centrepiece. The A1 fills a living-room wall on its own — it is the size to choose if the poster is the only thing on the wall.
For the canvas, three portrait sizes: about 30 × 40 cm, 40 × 50 cm and 45 × 60 cm.
Which design for which room
Seven drawings, all in black line on a light background. The Wolf Head poster is front-facing and symmetrical: it works in a narrow hallway or an entrance, where you walk towards it. The whole Wolf Head collection is built on this framing.
The Forest poster is the only landscape in the range: tree trunks, a forest edge, a silhouette. A horizontal scene set on a portrait sheet, it leaves a wide light margin — and it is the one that gains most from being printed large: below A3, the detail closes up. The Forest collection carries it across the other products.
For a bedroom, Howling Moon or Constellation hold up better in low light: the drawing is airy, it does not weigh on you when you wake up. For a study, Geometric Wolf and Compass stay graphic without telling a story.
Hanging it right
- Height. Put the centre of the poster about 145 cm from the floor: that is average eye level, the height museums use. Above a sofa or a chest of drawers, go lower instead and leave 20 to 25 cm between the top of the furniture and the bottom of the frame.
- Width. A single picture above a piece of furniture should match two thirds of its width. So a 90 cm chest of drawers calls for an A1 (59 cm wide), not an A4.
- Sets. Two or three posters of the same size, spaced 5 to 8 cm apart, read as a single piece. In that case pick three designs from the same family — three figurative or three abstract — rather than one of each.
- Light. Matte paper keeps reflections down. If you frame it behind glass, it is the glass that will shine — anti-reflective glass solves that.
- Frame. It is not included. On black and white, a thin black frame closes the drawing in, a light frame opens it up. A white margin around the picture changes the look more than the colour of the frame.
Price, delivery times, origin
The price goes up with the size; each size's price is shown on the product page. Tracked delivery costs €4.90 per order, whatever the number of items, to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria and the Netherlands for posters, and to the same countries except Luxembourg for canvases.
Posters are printed to order in the Czech Republic, so within the European Union: no customs, nothing will be charged to you on delivery. Allow 5 to 12 working days between ordering and receiving it. You have 14 days after receipt to withdraw, return costs at your expense; if a print is faulty or the parcel is damaged, report it within 30 days with a photo: it is reprinted or refunded, with no need to send it back.
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