Price range: $59.00 through $69.00
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
Original black ink drawing of a caped child on a skateboard, all speed, splatter and big dreams.
Some drawings sit quietly on the wall. This one leans forward. Thinking Big catches a small skater at full tilt, crouched low over the deck with a cape streaming out behind, knees bent, weight forward, eyes fixed on somewhere far past the end of the footpath. The pose is pure commitment. There is no hesitation in the line work and no careful tidying around the edges. Ink streaks trail off the figure like wind made visible, and flecks of splatter scatter across the paper the way gravel kicks up under fast wheels. You can almost hear the rattle of the bearings.
Danielle B Latta drew Thinking Big in black ink, working quickly with loose, gestural brushstrokes so the finished drawing keeps the energy of the moment it describes. Ink is an unforgiving medium. It allows no second thoughts, and that is exactly why it suits this subject. Every stroke had to be decided and delivered in one movement, the same way a skater commits to a drop. Danielle’s training in the Walt Disney tradition of character animation shows in how much personality lives in so few marks: the tuck of the shoulders, the grip of small hands on balance, the cape doing all the emotional talking. The hard contrast of black ink on white paper does the rest, giving the piece a graphic punch that reads clearly from across the room.
The cape is the heart of it. Every child who has ever tied a towel around their neck knows the feeling this drawing holds, that fierce certainty that speed plus imagination equals flight. Thinking Big celebrates that stubborn, wonderful conviction before the world has a chance to talk it down. It belongs in a kid’s bedroom, in a hallway that needs a bit of nerve, or above the desk of any grown-up who still remembers what the footpath felt like at full speed. It also sits happily among coastal and beach-house interiors, where its loose black and white energy echoes the mood of surf and salt air.
This is an original artwork, not a print, drawn by hand at Running Duck Studio in Dayboro, Queensland. You are buying the actual sheet the ink hit, splatter and all, with every accident of the brush preserved. At $59 AUD it is an honest way to own a one of a kind piece with real momentum behind it, or to give one to the young daredevil in your life.
Thinking Big
This artwork is on display at LRB Retreat & Private Gallery Experience.
It is not for sale online. You can view and purchase it in person at this location.
