The World is Flat

Re-love! ♥♥

Re-love again :)

Re-loving one of my all time favourite palettes :)

a beautiful interpretation of old maps!
I have to agree they are items of beauty and wonder :)

This is the best earth-color palette I've seen. I love the way you skillfully used the cool gray-green 'Mirabilium' at the center to enhance the warmth of the reddish tones to its left and enrich the browns to its right.

I downloaded the antique map and it is amazing (and HUGE) - such detail and creativity! You may just have gotten me hooked on old maps too ;-)

I once read a book about a cartographer and it left me totally enthralled. I love this palette, and frankly, I love old maps as well. There is such an almost mystical look about them, and they make you think of those people (cartographers) that drew them painstakingly, and made them beautiful. Many people would find that this is to tedious. You can really admire those people and modern day painters for this patience and the time it took. But that is really how it is with most things, everything takes time and patience. Even making palettes on CL is an art.

I love how this palette portrays so beautifully the work behind all art.

These are such amazing, wonderful colours! I love the subtle, yet noticeable contrast between the first two warm colours, the third and fourth cool colours and the final warm colour. I think it brings the entire palette together - it captures the beautiful colours in old maps, the hand drawn details, the old weathered look of the paper and the originality and personal interpretation of the world reflected in the drawings. I love the positioning of "Mirabilium" and "Contentarvm" within the palette and they look really amazing next to each other. I actually thought "Mirabilium" was a light blue when I looked at it in the palette surrounded by other colours, but when I scrolled down to look at it individually - it didn't seem very blue, so I looked up the HEX code for it in the colour-picker chart and found out it was actually on the grey side but between yellow and green! That's just crazy, because I swear it looks blue in the palette. It's the same thing as you seeing the purple colour in my palette. Colours can look strangely deceiving amongst other colours. They keep trying to trick us!

I really really love your palette. Think of the level of love you feel for my "Rome, In Dust" and quadruple it. And the fact is, I love old maps too. Although I don't draw maps myself, cartography has interested me for a long time now. I love those old world maps with the yellow-faded look. There's something really...I don't know if this is the right word, but magical about them - like a connection to something before our time, sometime from history, from the old world. Awhile ago I was looking for some ancient maps on eBay (Australia) and there were only a few. The one I had my eye one was just too expensive, but I can understand the value of them (if only I had more money).

During my vacation in America around Christmas/NY's just gone, I bought 8 hand drawn maps. They're not like the old maps you referred to in your palette, but they were really awesome anyway. They are hand drawn, water coloured, fine black pen inked maps of some of the major cities in the USA - LA, Las Vegas, San Francisco, etc. Here's a link to their website, if you're interested: http://www.wall-maps.com/UniqueMedia.htm . I just love the personal touch they have about them.

This is a palette I made awhile back about a Cartographer's hangout:


Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas and interests with us in your colours. This is truly a beautiful palette.

ohh!
I LOVE old maps too!
and I love your palette
well done!!
;-))