Tacoma map artist and chorographer Kirsten Sparenborg discusses her huge body of work in ink and watercolor, her years in architectural illustration, an ill-starred mural commission, making her own pigments out of local rocks, and her next 10-panel 46 sq. ft. project. See her work at turnofthecenturies.com

New Orleans watercolor block map
3x3 ft. Boston watercolor block map
Ink street map of Baltimore
Sottile & Sottile, where she made architectural drawings
Sanborn Insurance Maps
Ink bird's-eye map of Eastport, Maine
Cheyenne Mallo’s map ceramics
Radiant Maps: my backlit ultra-detailed maps

Artists she likes:

Heather Bird Harris
Marc Boyson
Place Value Pottery
The Lost Borough

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