Good ideas. One of my thoughts for this one was to do some sort of painted illustration in a corner of the land (landscape/animals/? dependent on what type of place this map ends up being of), and maybe fade it into some looser terrain and map elements, and labels. Had open a book on Africa this morning and there was a beautiful foldout panorama of the savanna... the grass was all in golden yellow tones. I also did a scrap piece to test the power of the yellow pencil in a wash technique against blue dotted ocean... meh.