This unique world map is hand-painted in watercolour. Different painting techniques were used to create the painting, such as blowing away the wet watercolour over the watercolour paper to create long graceful strands and splatters in a variety of colours.
The colours around the countries and continents have a connection to the country and the colours of the landscape.
The world map itself is white, creating a nice contrast with the colourful oceans of the world.
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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