Alhambra World Map Blue Toddler T-Shirt

A world map made from a drawing I adapted from a pattern found in the Alhambra palace in Grenada in Spain, making more star shapes than there are in the original. Though I could have made this on the computer, I chose to draw the pattern painstakingly, slowly and imperfectly by hand as the imperfections as well as the texture of the paper adds a bit of organic beauty to the design, I feel.

The line drawing was then scanned and layered digitally to create the blue shading, then turned into this world map, the continents shaded to bring them out a bit more from the pattern, even if the one for the land and sea are not aligned.

Born in Norway in 1974, and discovering I knew how to paint in 1999, my work spans a wide variety of styles and media, all the way from traditional oils, pencil drawings and encaustics to digital paintings, 3D renderings and computer generated imagery, with styles ranging from the completely abstract to the sensually figurative.