Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, by Jill K. Berry, Linden McNeilly

By Jill K. Berry, Linden McNeilly

Trip during the fascinating global of cartography with Map Lab. This enjoyable and artistic ebook positive factors fifty two map-related actions set into weekly routines, starting with legends and contours, relocating via forms and kinds, after which growing custom-made maps that let you trip to new worlds.

Authors Jill ok. Berry and Linden McNeilly consultant readers via worthy suggestions whereas exploring colourful, attention-grabbing snap shots. The labs can be utilized as singular tasks or to accumulate to a 12 months of hands-on artistic studies. Map Lab is the appropriate booklet for map fans, creative/DIY-inspired, designers. Artists of every age and adventure degrees can use this e-book to discover stress-free and interesting workouts. everybody loves maps. And what's to not love? they're appealing and engaging, they train you issues, they exhibit you the place you're, areas you lengthy to head, and locations you dare to visualize.

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Fig. 1) 2 Lift the paper and let the ink run down the page. Before it runs off the bottom edge, rotate the paper. The ink drop will travel in a fairly straight line. Add more drops as you go and keep rotating. (Fig. 2, 3) 3. If you want to let the ink drip off the page, place a colored sheet of paper on the surface below to catch the extra ink. This is the page that was on the table underneath my original page. I rotated it around, too, and let the ink flow where it wanted to. Then I added fine black marker and colored pencil to make my fantasy hill town map.

Head to Paris, Madrid, or Rome! In this project you’ll take those views, and using PanPastels and their companion tools (or any medium you like), you’ll paint an abstract bird’s-eye map. indd 62 1/23/14 3:22 PM 2/10/14 4:34 PM TEXT (F29)_Job:01-40625 Title:RP-Map Art Lab 02-AC70356 #175 Dtp:221 Page: 62 b 2 instructions 1. Find an image on Google Earth and print it out. (Fig. 1) 2. On your paper, lay in the dark area. Squint your eyes to see this in a simpler way. Then, using your lightest color, lay in the brightest areas to balance the composition.

Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 4. Try to see the picture as a series of geometric and curvilinear spaces. A house, for example, is a series of rectangles as seen from the sky. Trees can be circles. Tell yourself you are painting patterns instead of a whole neighborhood and it will be easier to approach. 5. Add the colors you like, even if they are not on your photo. The samples shows lavender and teal in the trees, and pink in the dirt. (Fig. 3) 6. Imagine hovering over this place, and seeing the sparkling color details that you miss in a photo.

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