Nice job!
This map, seen below in inks and then watercolors, was an attempt to move away from the digital tools I have become comfortable with and create a map wholly by hand in the styles of the seminal cartographers of the late sixteenth century. As something of an amateur historian with an interest in the Eighty Years War and Dutch Republic, I chose to create a map of the northeast provinces of the early republic circa the 1580s.
The maps were awarded the Judge's Choice award in a medieval and Renaissance arts competition from a field of almost sixty entrants. So, while my penmanship is atrocious, I'm pleased with the whole.
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Note that I digitally touched up the scan so it reflects the gradiated watercolor washes in a manner close to the physical original, as the original sans were at too high a contrast and didn't pick up the light color washes.
Current Project: The Low Countries & Their Periphery, c. 1584
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Nice job!
Francesca Baerald - http://www.francescabaerald.com/maps/
These are beautiful! Congrats, well deserved.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
What beautiful colors. Wonderful job.
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Derik Moonhand
Very nice job.. and love the framing and format of it all
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Its heart-warming to see someone taking the time and trouble to create something beautiful the hard way
Congratulations on two beautiful maps. The colour scan does a total injustice to the loveliness of the original!
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Lovely maps! Incredible work! And yes, very nice framing.
How long did it take you to make the first map?
How long did it take you to color it?