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  1. Happy birthday to Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) renown Flemish cartographer.

    What made Mercator a great #cartographer, was in fact his abilities as a #mathematician -and like those of us scientists who feel compelled also to create art he was wasn’t hindered by his immense ability as an engraver. He produced beautiful world maps (a version of which is depicted in this print), 🧵1/

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    #geographer #geography #histstm #sciart #linocut #printmaking #mapart #maps #Mercator

  2. Vous vous rappelez la carte marine du Groenland ? Le bœuf musqué n’était pas le seul à y figurer ! Il y avait aussi l’incontournable baleine qui saute 🐋🌊 !
    Et oui, encore une… mais avouez qu’elles ont un rendu incroyable 😍

    #artmarin #illustrationnature #aquarelle #baleine #whaleart #wildlifeart #artisteanimalier #peinturetraditionnelle #illustrationanimalière #mapart #natureillustration #oceanlovers

  3. Today is also International Crow and Raven Appreciation Day and I for one, appreciate the corvids. They are extraordinarily intelligent birds! Here is my murder of crows, part of my #termsOfVenery series of collective nouns for animals series of prints.

    The raven is the official bird of the Yukon, in my print with the official flora, fireweed.

    Lastly my crow print, inspired by a photo my husband took.

    #linocut #printmaking #sciart #crow #raven #Yukon #mapArt #MastoArt

  4. Si le manchot papou est la star de mes cartes, les baleines à bosse sont les SUPER stars ! 🐋✨
    Voici une nouvelle illustration d'une baleine sautant hors de l'eau.
    Savais-tu que les baleines sautent, entre autres, pour communiquer entre elles sur de longues distances ? 🌊💬

    #aquarelle #illustrationnaturaliste #baleine #cartepeinte #nauticalart #cétacé #croquis #natureillustration #artanimalier #biodiversite #wildlifeart #marinewildlife #peinturetraditionnelle #artetnature #sciences #mapart #femmesartistes

  5. Next in my Canadian 🇨🇦 province linocuts is Nova Scotia, with its provincial bird, the Osprey and its flower, the mayflower. The block was inked ‘à la poupée’ (with different colours, green, pinks, yellow and gray-brown, in different areas) and printed by hand on lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.

    The mayflower (Epigaea repens) is also known as trailing arbutus has been a symbol of the province since🧵

    #linocut #printmaking #mapart #Canada #NovaScotia #sciart #mayflower #osprey #MastoArt

  6. I was 9 years old on my first camping trip to a tiny canyon at the Desatoya Mountains… I hope to visit it again some day.

    My stepdad was sworn to secrecy about The Dens, so don’t tell anyone.

    Mapping the magic places I’ve known…inspired by vintage USGS maps.

    #TheDens #BigDen #Nevada #BigDenCreek #BigDenFalls #EastgateNV #GreatBasin #Pattern #MapArt #MapsAsArt #BasinRange #Hwy50 #CarrollPass #CarrollSummit #Desatoya #DesatoyaMountains #Paiute #Shoshone #ShoshoneLand #ConspiracyOfCartographers

  7. Back in the 90s, I knew someone whose stepfather owned 850 acres outside of Napa. The property included the ruins of Napa Soda Springs, a Victorian-era resort.

    I saw that he recently sold the property to Restoration Hardware.

    Here is my USGS-inspired map of the area... a map of a magical place I've known.

    #NapaSodaSprings #SodaCreek #SodaCanyon #Napa #NapaValley #WhiteRockVineyards #MapArt #MagicalPlaces #Geomancy #MapsAsArt #Ruins #MineralSprings #VictorianEra #conspiracyofcartographers

  8. Over 450 miles upstream from the mouth of the Mississippi River, Memphis will see salt water when all the ice caps have melted.

    This #retrofuture map is based on a 1927 #USGS quad with 66m of sea level rise added, the highest level predicted by the #IPCC.

    #MississippiRiver #MemphisTN #Tennessee #Arkansas #mapArt #MapsAsArt #steampunk #climateArson #solarpunk #oilAndGasIndustry #seaLevelRise #seaLevelRiseMaps #climateChange #maps #cartography #clifi #climateArt #conspiracyOfCartographers

  9. I've always been fascinated and inspired by old USGS maps of the American west, especially the places where I grew up

    Here's an 1886 version of Granite Range, NV, and mine-- a USGS-inspired map incorporating the current landscape and more accurate and detailed terrain

    @sarahbell made the Bell Topo Sans typeface!

    #pyramidlakepaiute #Nevada #Gerlach #GreatBasin #MapArt #MapsAsArt #BasinRange #BlackRockDesert #PyramidLake #BlackRockCity #BurningMan #Washoe #Paiute #ConspiracyOfCartographers