World Map Ocean Watercolor

Name: World Map Ocean Watercolor
Brand: Squadron Posters
SKU: SP-WorldMapOceanWatercolor-01
Availability: InStock

World Map Ocean Watercolor

World Map Ocean Watercolor combines vintage cartography with the organic character of watercolor artwork. Deep blue and teal tones flow across the continents and surrounding oceans, balanced by warm tan and brown earth-toned accents and a softly aged background. The layered, distressed texture gives the map an artistic, hand-painted appearance while retaining recognizable country and ocean labeling. Detailed standard World Map showing major rivers and mountain ranges. Its subdued palette makes this piece especially suited to sophisticated offices, living rooms, libraries, studies, and travel-inspired interiors. It is a world map with plenty of visual detail without overwhelming the room. This is a detailed standard World Map. (No military bases included)

Features: Decorative watercolor world map with deep ocean blues, earthy neutrals, vintage texture, and labeled countries and major geographic regions.

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Clear

SKU: SP-WorldMapOceanWatercolor-01 Categories: 40x60 Added, Andy Anderson, CG, World Maps (Aviator's and Mariner’s), World Military Air Base Map Art Tags: Map, map art, vintage travel poster, world map

World Map Ocean Watercolor vintage style military aviation wall art found exclusively at Squadron Posters!

A World Map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map. Many techniques have been developed to present world maps that address diverse technical and aesthetic goals.

Charting a world map requires global knowledge of the Earth, its oceans, and its continents. From prehistory through the Middle Ages, creating an accurate world map would have been impossible because less than half of Earth’s coastlines and only a small fraction of its continental interiors were known to any culture. With exploration that began during the European Renaissance, knowledge of the Earth’s surface accumulated rapidly, such that most of the world’s coastlines had been mapped, at least roughly, by the mid-1700s and the continental interiors by the twentieth century. Maps of the world generally focus either on political features or on physical features. Political maps emphasize territorial boundaries and human settlement. Physical maps show geographical features such as mountains, soil type, or land use. Geological maps show not only the surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures. Choropleth maps use color hue and intensity to contrast differences between regions, such as demographic or economic statistics. Check out this stunning World Map Ocean Watercolor map by Squadron Posters!

Squadron Posters offers the world’s largest collection of Squadron Specific Art! Check out our stunning vintage style military aviation themed travel posters, honoring All Branches of Service. Our artwork not only represents aircraft, armored cavalry, or ships, it represents adventure and travel. This means we create posters featuring the Space Needle, New Orleans, the Golden Gate Bridge, Mt Rushmore and the National Mall. Of course, McChord AFB isn’t in Seattle but if you’re stationed there your adventure surely involves the Space Needle! (See our Facebook page HERE)

This is what makes Squadron Posters different–it’s about remembering where you’ve lived and what you’ve seen with a vintage themed travel poster. – Collect your travels and tell your story!