This colourful watercolour world map is hand-painted and 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 for a close-up and see the beautiful details and colour transitions of this impressionist painting.
The original painting is painted with watercolours and Ecoline on 300gsm watercolour paper on a panorama size of 160 x 90cm.
Use of colour.
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 has been photographed and digitised in very high resolution. The beautiful details of the watercolour are therefore also printed razor-sharp on very large wall-filling formats 'such as Artframe and Wallpaper'.
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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