This rugged world map is a fusion of a photo image of a corroded piece of metal and painting in watercolor on a fiber-rich cotton watercolor paper.
For this world map, I went out especially to photograph rust. For this I went to Heijplaat in Rotterdam near the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij ( RDM ). My grandparents lived in heijplaat and it seemed interesting to me to visit this cool area after a long time and specifically look for corroded steel along the quay and in the industrial area of RDM.
The rust I used in this work of art comes from a steel leg of a crane. The metal was heavily corroded and consisted of three structures, namely the black paint that was still intact, a smooth orange rust layer and a heavily corroded rust layer with a rough structure.
The black background is also homemade and consists of a fiber-rich cotton watercolor paper on which I painted with black watercolors using the wet on wet technique. The paint has a nice granulation that gives it a rough appearance. I then digitally brought all the elements together and edited them into one piece.
In short, a special world map for those who love metallurgy and a rough 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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