Boston Painting/Diorama in huge shadowbox

October 12th, 2010, 07:42 PM

Hello there, I'm new here. Couldn't find a place to register then read how we just post this way I guess?

Anyway...

At least 10 years ago, I went to the Burlington, MA Mall where they had a Gallery Shop with paintings. I saw these awesome huge 4 feet wide by 5 feet tall (roughly) city themed paintings, well, not really paintings...they were $500-1,000 and were in shadowboxes like a diorama. Each had a theme of different cities. (New York, LA, Boston, ETC.) I wanted Boston because that's where I am from.

It was like a cartoon map with neat cutouts of people and places exactly like a pop-up book! I'd never seen anything like it before, or since!

Example: It had all the famous areas such as Haymarket where the fruit stands are, as well as Fanuel square with street performers. The characters were great! It was like a 3D map of Boston framed like one huge pop-up book page!

For years I've done google searches trying to find them but have had no luck. I've gone back to the shop a couple times asking people about them but no one knew what I was talking about. I think if I can't ever find them again that I will try to make my own version.

Here's some links of pages I found while searching, that give an idea of how the cutouts kind of were.

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index...p ic=308310.0

Thank you for reading my post and allowing me to ask here. I appreciate any help.

thatcomedian · October 13th, 2010, 09:41 AM

Charles Fazzino
http://www.fazzino.com/

Here is a promo card of the 3d of Boston. Is this what it looked like?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=263602_304652

October 13th, 2010, 05:02 PM

Thank you so much. That was fast. I don't think think that was the exact one but that's definitely the artist. I went through the artist's site and saw them and found some on ebay also. They are much more expensive now. I wish I had bought it when I saw it. I've also been watching youtube videos of Charles Fazzino now. I'll have to buy a nice big print for my apartment.

Thanks again so much.

October 12th, 2010, 07:42 PM	#1
Grimmy Posts: n/a	Boston Painting/Diorama in huge shadowbox Hello there, I'm new here. Couldn't find a place to register then read how we just post this way I guess? Anyway... At least 10 years ago, I went to the Burlington, MA Mall where they had a Gallery Shop with paintings. I saw these awesome huge 4 feet wide by 5 feet tall (roughly) city themed paintings, well, not really paintings...they were $500-1,000 and were in shadowboxes like a diorama. Each had a theme of different cities. (New York, LA, Boston, ETC.) I wanted Boston because that's where I am from. It was like a cartoon map with neat cutouts of people and places exactly like a pop-up book! I'd never seen anything like it before, or since! Example: It had all the famous areas such as Haymarket where the fruit stands are, as well as Fanuel square with street performers. The characters were great! It was like a 3D map of Boston framed like one huge pop-up book page! For years I've done google searches trying to find them but have had no luck. I've gone back to the shop a couple times asking people about them but no one knew what I was talking about. I think if I can't ever find them again that I will try to make my own version. Here's some links of pages I found while searching, that give an idea of how the cutouts kind of were. http://www.craftster.org/forum/index...p ic=308310.0 Thank you for reading my post and allowing me to ask here. I appreciate any help.

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October 13th, 2010, 09:41 AM	#2
thatcomedian Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: San Pedro, CA Posts: 210	Charles Fazzino http://www.fazzino.com/ Here is a promo card of the 3d of Boston. Is this what it looked like? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=263602_304652

October 13th, 2010, 05:02 PM	#3
Grimmy Posts: n/a	Thank you so much. That was fast. I don't think think that was the exact one but that's definitely the artist. I went through the artist's site and saw them and found some on ebay also. They are much more expensive now. I wish I had bought it when I saw it. I've also been watching youtube videos of Charles Fazzino now. I'll have to buy a nice big print for my apartment. Thanks again so much.