Ed fairburn

Explore the captivating and intricate artwork of Ed Fairburn. Dive into a world of maps and portraits that blend together to create stunning masterpieces. Experience the unique talent of Ed Fairburn and be inspired.
English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces, as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map's topo Illustrators, Collage Art, Art, Art And Illustration, A Level Art, Artist, English Artists, Portrait Art, Portrait Illustration

English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography. “In his hands, both built infrastructure and natural phenomena echo the organic human form,” shares Mike Wright Gallery. “National highway systems become capillaries, and the tangle of Paris’…

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Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fairburn  http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/new-portraits-drawn-on-maps-by-ed-fairburn/ Art Lessons, Art, Art Photography, Collage, Portraits, Portrait, Illustrators, A Level Art, English Artists

Using a wide variety of canvases including railroad blueprints, star charts, geological and street maps, Welsh artist Ed Fairburn (previously here and here) uses additive and subtractive techniques to create portraits that seem pefectly integrated with the topography of streets, mountains and rivers. It’s been almost a year since we last checked in with Fairburn whose process and approach to creating these stunning portraits continues to evolve. One of his most striking methods is to…

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above: Windermere, Pencil on a cropped map of the English Lakes – specifically Lake Windermere. Cardiff-based illustrator Ed Fairburn sees things in maps most of us do not. His map-based portraits combine the art of cartography with the drawing of the human face. Making the curves and lines of the two dimensional terrain (or the heavens as is the case with his celestial drawings) blend with the curves and lines of human features brings a dimensionality to both the maps and the portraits. The…

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Shayna MacDonald
Portraits Drawn on Maps by Ed Fairburn via http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/11/portraits-drawn-on-maps-by-ed-fairburn/# Design, Portraits, Art And Illustration, Portrait, Ed Fairburn, Artist, Vintage Maps, Artwork, Portrait Drawing

Artist Ed Fairburn utilizes the chaotic patchwork of roads, trains, and rivers printed on maps as the framework for his large-scale portraits. Almost like a sculptor carving a subject from a block of stone, or a constellation highlighted in a clump of stars, Fairburn uses meticulous ink or pencil cross hatching to create portraits hidden amongst the topographical features. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook. (via artchipel) More

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