Artist Ed Fairburn Draws Stunning Portraits On Old Maps
0Cardiff based artist, Ed Fairburn is producing beautiful portraits on old maps. You see just an old map, this guy sees an amazing canvas for creating even more amazing portraits.
Ed Fairburn uses different canvases including blueprints, geological and street maps to create portraits that seemingly blend in with the topography of mountains, streets and rivers. Military maps, climate maps or even sky maps are painted and are transformed into beautiful compositions.
Using pencil, pen and paint Fairburn carefully shades and draws rows of lines that vary by width and in that way he creates individual forms and shadows. Wouldn’t you like to see your face, artistically integrated into a map of your favorite city?
Pembroke
Amsterdam
Norwich
Lake Windermere
Innsbruck
The Milky Way
Stafford Lane
Paris
South Wales
Cambridge
North America
Pennsylvania
