watercolour – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:06:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg watercolour – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Wildflowers of Canada https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/07/wildflowers-of-canada/ Sun, 02 Jul 2017 01:50:04 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=4544 More]]>
Sarah Duggan, “Wildflowers of Canada,” 2017.

“Wildflowers of Canada” is a limited-edition print released by Nova Scotia artist Sarah Duggan to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. Duggan also has a number of other examples of floral map art, in the shape of Canadian provinces (plus Cape Breton Island), on her Etsy store.

]]> 4544 Emily Garfield’s Map Art https://www.maproomblog.com/2015/02/emily_garfields_map_art/ Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:15:05 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/2015/02/emily_garfields_map_art/ More]]> Emily Garfield: Branching Networks (Cityspace #178)
Emily Garfield’s art is a pen-and-watercolour exercise in the cartography of imaginary places. Her drawings “are inspired by the visual language of maps, as well as the fractal similarity that cities share with biological processes such as the patterns of cells and neurons.” Above: “Branching Networks (Cityspace #178).”

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