The Blue Nautilus Blueprint

Golden Spiral Art in Blue and Gold

A large nautilus in deep blue and gold mosaic shows its spiral sharp and detailed. Beside it, sweeping golden curls run across cream graph paper, like an engineer's study of the golden spiral.

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It suits a study, home office, living room or hallway, above a desk, sofa or sideboard, and looks crisp on a 4K TV or Samsung Frame.

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Print file€9.997680 × 4320 · prints to 65 cm4K TV pack€19.99Samsung Frame & any 4K TV

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Print file: 7,680 × 4,320 px — sharp to about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi
4K TV pack: 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame and 4K TVs, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080
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Print file: 7,680 × 4,320 px — sharp to about 65 cm wide at 300 dpi
The commercial licence covers hotels, offices, restaurants and public spaces
Print it yourself at any size, on metal, acrylic, glass or fine-art paper

On a 4K TV or Samsung Frame

This work is drawn for screens: the 4K TV pack holds 3840 × 2160 for the Samsung Frame and other 4K TVs, plus 2560 × 1440 and 1920 × 1080 for older sets, monitors and digital frames. The picture fills the screen edge to edge, so no mat is needed. All about 4K TV art →

The Blue Nautilus Blueprint — 4K TV art, 3840 × 2160

How large can I print it?

The print file is 7,680 × 4,320 px. That prints crisply to about 65 × 37 cm at gallery quality, and to about 130 × 73 cm at the distance you look at a picture over a sofa. Sizes, paper and framing, in detail →

Which paper or surface?

Gold on dark grounds wants a matte or satin fine-art paper (200–310 gsm), or aluminium for humid rooms; glossy photo paper turns the black into a mirror. The pale works also take satin and baryta papers.

Which licence do I need?

Personal (€9.99) covers your own home and gifts. Any business or space open to the public — a spa, clinic, hotel, office, restaurant — needs the commercial licence (€99.99, one venue, no renewal). The venue guide →

How big, and how high, on my wall?

Width of the furniture beneath divided by 1.618; centre of the picture at 150 cm from the floor. How to hang wall art using the golden ratio →

About this work

The Blue Nautilus Blueprint shows a large nautilus worked in deep blue and gold mosaic, its spiral sharp and detailed. Beside it, sweeping golden curls run across cream graph paper, so the whole picture looks like an engineer's study of the golden spiral.

A golden spiral is a logarithmic spiral that grows by the golden ratio, about 1.618, with every quarter turn. The nautilus also grows along a logarithmic spiral: each new chamber is larger than the last, yet the shape stays the same. The two are often treated as one, but measured shells rarely match the golden ratio exactly, and most expand more slowly. That gap between ideal geometry and living form is what this picture plays with, setting the shell beside the drawing that tries to explain it.

As gold and blue wall art it fits a study, home office, living room or hallway, and looks sharp against navy, white, stone or warm grey walls. The horizontal format sits well above a desk, sofa or sideboard, and on a 4K TV or Samsung Frame the blue mosaic and gold lines stay crisp. Pair it with The Architect's Nautilus for a set of two nautilus studies.

The Blue Nautilus Blueprint

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