For a close-up of this map, click on the picture. This map is also available as a Round Print (Wall Circle).
This hand painted map of New Zealand in watercolor is an ode to this beautiful country and the continent of Oceania.
The map has been painted with a mixture of ecoline and watercolours applied to watercolour paper using the wet-on-wet technique. Subsequently, the white balance of the painting has been digitally adjusted so that this illustration contains the following colors with blue, purple, orange, yellow, green and azure tones.
The map is painted in an expressionistic way with high contrast colors.
The borders of the provinces are very subtly visible as thin pencil lines.
WorldMapsShop is part of a creative design studio producing artistic cartography and paintings. The person behind World MapsShop is Ricardo Bouman, who works as a graphic designer, photographer and painter.
In his design studio, he works with both analogue mediums 'paints and inks' and modern digital mediums 'digital..
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