size matters?

Martian Gardener paintings started as a series of small paintings (around 20). the sizes are 19x24 up to 42x 59cm ) Drawing inspiration from Russian Icons these paintings are very much the objects, they sat well in hand,(painted on printed textiles stretched over recycled boards)the weight of the boards and the colorful fabric seen on the side gave them the object like presence. The lines are thin and the layers of paint are delicate and almost transparent.
I've decided to make a bigger work (around 120 -160 cm) and almost immediately felt that the way I've painted the small boards does not work on a bigger scale. On a bigger scale delicate lines and thin layers looked more like architectural draft , dry and boring. the bigger painting have stepped outside the well crafted, sacred object category and lost it's presence. The bigger scale needed painting 'to happen' to become more physical, raw, bold... painterly.... 

count it as a failure?!.....