This color and contrast rich world map is a fusion of a photo image of a corroded piece of metal and watercolor painting on a fiber paper.
All the continents are made up of rust with a colorful gradation that is azure from the top and displays increasingly rusty brown, red and earthy tones with beautiful textures towards the bottom. The background consists of a fiber-rich cotton watercolor paper on which I painted with black watercolor using the "wet on wet technique" with a beautiful granulation. I brought these separate elements together in a digital way.
This world map has a watercolor frame where the brush strokes are applied to the white paper on the sides. The white of the paper is also visible on the sides of this wall decoration. This world map is also available with a completely black background without frame.
This world map falls under digital art and in terms of style it is a combination of modern contemporary art, Wabi-sabi and abstract art.
Wabi-sabi is a worldview that focuses on the acceptance of imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as appreciating beauty that is imperfect and/or incomplete in nature.
In short, a special world map for those who love metallurgy and a rugged Grunge look in the interior such as in the living room, bedroom, kitchen, home office or reception hall.
WorldMapsShop is a design studio where artistic cartographic illustrations and paintings are created by graphic designer, photographer and painter Ricardo Bouman.
In his studio and workshop, he works with both analogue mediums 'paints and inks' and modern digital mediums 'vector line drawings, typography and proprietary photographic images'.
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