Map of the Netherlands in watercolour.
Major cities are shown in light and dark red, forest areas are dark green, dunes yellow and agricultural areas light green. Rivers, lakes and the sea are white.
This handmade painting was painted using the 'wet in wet technique' combined with masking fluid.
The map was then…
Art on canvas looks great on any wall. It truly comes into its own with paintings featuring sharp brushstrokes.
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 drawings, typography and proprietary photographic images'.
His unique cartographic concepts are traditionally translated into…
