World of the Maya Belize Travel Poster Framed

Mundo Maya — World of the Maya — Belize 
Hand-drawn Map Art by Savanna Redman

Framed Travel Poster 24" × 36" Printed on thick, enhanced matte paper with quality inks. Solid wood frame, sustainably sourced · Clear acrylite front protector · Hanging hardware included · Printed and shipped within 2-6 business days.
 
I created Mundo Maya to show the mainland of Belize — the locations of the Maya ruins marked with hieroglyphs, and the flora and fauna of the Central American rainforest. It started as a companion map to my Ambergris Caye Chart, drawn in an old-world cartography style, but soon took off with an energy of its own and gave me an incurable archaeological bug and a deep love of hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, and pictographs.
I wanted to know the meaning of a few glyphs to use as markers for the Maya ruins scattered across the country. That quest led me to Dr. Herman Smith — the only resident PhD archaeologist in Belize at the time, a former Marine pilot who'd flown search and rescue missions in Vietnam and never mentioned it once. What he talked about was the Maya. He loaned me reference books, and soon I was so hooked on studying the artwork and hieroglyphs of the Maya people that I thought I'd never finish the map. At moments, I didn't want to finish it.
 
When I wasn't studying hieroglyphs, I was sitting in the rainforest sketching logwood, mahogany, and orchids, or at the Belize Zoo — where I could sit close enough to count the eyelashes on a jaguar, read a howler monkey's palm lines, and bribe a scarlet macaw down from the high branches to sit on a perch at my level while I sketched his portrait.
 
I drew the original on Arches watercolor paper with a crow quill pen and a well of India ink, then layered the finished drawing with watercolor and colored pencil. Tech pens felt taboo.
 
This is not an old world map in one important way — it includes the ruins and notable locations of today. I use GPS locations, satellite images, and actual reference material. The hieroglyphs are fairly accurate — but where pieces of the puzzle were missing, I completed them with artistic license.
 
Options: World of the Maya Unframed Travel Poster:  (coming soon)

Or the 16 x 20" Mundo Maya Unframed Art Poster:  (coming soon)
 
If you enjoy this map, you may appreciate its companion too. 
Ambergris Caye Nautical Chart — the map that started my love of cartography. Lagoons, anchorages, and the barrier reef fishermen and divers know by heart, with notable historical events and shipwrecks listed on two hand-lettered scrolls, the Reef Madonna watching from the Bay of Honduras, the trade wind filling the sails of tall ships, and sea monsters representing the reef that stopped many ships before they found safe harbor. The island and the mainland, drawn by the same hand, while living there. The coast, the islands, the rainforest, the wildlife, the Maya history — together they make Belize like nowhere else on earth.
Isla Bonita Framed Travel Poster:  (coming soon)

Isla Bonita Unframed Travel Poster:  (coming soon)
 
If you'd prefer a collector piece — both maps are available as hand-signed fine art giclées on archival paper — with a certificate of authenticity and a dedication written just for you.
Ambergris Caye: 
Mundo Maya: 
 
 
 

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