Just One Line Art Embrace simplicity

One city. One line.

Charleston Skyline Art

Steeples and the bridge, drawn in one pass.

Charleston Skyline Mug
Charleston Skyline Mug
from $16.99
Charleston Skyline Canvas Print
Charleston Skyline Canvas Print
from $49.99

$7.99 shipping across the US, arriving in 5 to 15 business days. Anything that turns up damaged or wrong is replaced free within 30 days. Shipping and returns in full.

Charleston is the flattest skyline in this catalog, and that is the point of it. Nothing dominates, so the drawing is read across rather than up.

What is in the drawing

A steeple stands alone at the far left beside a tall slab. Then the bridge, two diamond pylons with cables fanning from each of them down to a deck that runs low across the page. Past a flat-topped tower the line reaches a dome at the center, then a spire, then a wide flat block, then a cluster of smaller spires and pinnacles that give the right half its texture. A tall slab ends it. Almost everything here sits at a similar height, which is why the two vertical shapes carry the whole drawing.

Who buys it

The wedding-weekend present. Charleston takes a lot of two-night visits with a specific occasion attached, and the 18 by 12 canvas is the size that fits the wall a couple actually has free.

Mug or canvas

Close to two and a half times as long as it is tall, 2.394 to 1, and the ink sits low in a shallow band instead of climbing the frame. On a mug it travels almost the whole way round, so the bridge and the steeples are in view together without turning it. On a wall it wants a wide gap: over a sideboard rather than in an alcove.

Other cities

The whole catalog runs to 258 cities. See every design.