This colourful hand-painted world map in watercolour features subtle and bright colours that have a clear connection to the nature and climate of the country and continent in question.
Click on the world map to see a close-up of the beautiful details of this impressionist artwork.
South America consists of (dark) green and yellow tones, South Africa of (dark) green and yellow tones and North Africa of yellow and orange tones for the desert areas. Canada and Greenland have fresh blue tones and Australia green, orange and red earthy colours. North America, Asia, Europe, Scandinavia and Oceania (near New Zealand and Fiji) have a mix of warm and cold colours.
The original painting was made with watercolours on 300g watercolour paper and measures 70x40cm.
The work has been photographed in high resolution and is therefore also available as an Artprint in large wall-filling sizes.
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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