turnofthecenturies
Buyers are raving!
This shop got multiple 5-star reviews in the past 7 days.
Announcement
Architectural Maps * Drawn by Hand
Watercolor City Blocks Maps * City Lines Map-drawings
Original Paintings and Prints inspired by Travel and Home
Wedding Table Cards
To view a wider range of my work, please visit www.turnofthecenturies.squarespace.com
To see more of my process, work and travels, as well as sales and giveaways, find me on Instagram @turnofthecenturies
I'm also on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/TurnOTCenturies
thank you!
Announcement
Architectural Maps * Drawn by Hand
Watercolor City Blocks Maps * City Lines Map-drawings
Original Paintings and Prints inspired by Travel and Home
Wedding Table Cards
To view a wider range of my work, please visit www.turnofthecenturies.squarespace.com
To see more of my process, work and travels, as well as sales and giveaways, find me on Instagram @turnofthecenturies
I'm also on Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/TurnOTCenturies
thank you!
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Julie on Jan 24, 2021
5 out of 5 starsKirsten is a fabulous artist. She’s patient and very helpful. I wanted a unique gift for my brother’s birthday and retirement and she made me just that! I’m absolutely thrilled with her beautiful work. I couldn’t recommend her more highly!
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Connie Carlisle on Jan 23, 2021
5 out of 5 starsMy granddaughter lives in Canton, a village in Baltimore. She had this framed and it looks beautiful.
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Margaret on Dec 29, 2020
5 out of 5 starsVery unique and educational! Gift for someone who moved in Philly and has helped with learning the city!
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marikamatuszak3 on Dec 24, 2020
5 out of 5 starsGorgeous! Highly recommend! The artist is meticulous and it looks like an expensive piece of art that you would find at an art sale in the West Village! I bought it for my sister who lives in this neighborhood and spends all of her free time in Central Park, great gift.
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seiko on Dec 23, 2020
5 out of 5 starsMy brother loved his new print! Thank you so much for shipping it out promptly so it'd get to him before the holidays.
About turnofthecenturies
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Drawing in the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, on fellowship from the University of Virginia.
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My first Watercolor City Blocks Map was of Seattle, in January 2015.
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This is my meditation.
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Always balancing mothering and making. A Proud Artist/Mother - also a military wife.
Architectural Map-Drawings
I started Turn-of-the-Centuries in 2007 while I was very busy working in an architecture and urban design firm in Savannah Georgia. I moved to Savannah because it was an amazing place to draw. Historic buildings - not always the "George Washington slept here" variety, but the real places people live and work, the walls and windows that have seen the passage of time, the odd embellishments owners have added to express themselves - these have a special allure for me. I loved my job, but I craved my own imprint. So, at night and on weekends I made drawings of Savannah's streetscapes.
I also made drawings as a way to capture other places I travelled, like Portland OR and New Orleans. I try to capture the essence of what I felt there. I "feel" a place as I walk it, through its building facades, streets, trees and its urban plan. The concept of Architectural Map-Drawings, a unique combination of architectural facades and maps, or plans, emerged as a quintessential expression of the character of a place.
After I'd lived in Savannah for seven years, I moved to Alexandria Virginia and became a happy tourist of the Washington DC area, making new streetscape drawings. I immersed myself in graduate school to learn more about these buildings I love to draw, as well as the history of architectural drawing and mapping. (I wrote a thesis on maps of Savannah! "you can take the girl out of Savannah, but you can't take Savannah out of the girl" my mother said.) I learned about the amazing drawings of the early Renaissance, as artists, architects and cartographers combined plan, elevation, section, perspective and cartography to visualize their designs and to synthesize perceptions of their cities and places. I studied (and made) bird's eye view drawings in Rome.
Now, I am taking up this long tradition of chorography to describe, document and cherish great places. I hope to foster and support the appreciation we have for special places and the desire for mementos of these places - to frame, to hang, to send a greeting. I'd love to map your special place. Please contact me or peruse the Commission Listings here in my Shop to determine the right size for your map, the boundaries that are significant and enjoy ruminating over what color the place evokes for you. It's YOUR MAP! : )
Follow me on Instagram (@turnofthecenturies) to see what I'm working on and looking at, and where I live and travel.
If you are interested in the beautiful Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Days Saints, please visit my other shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TOTCtemples
I've recently relocated my temple pieces from this shop into a shop of their own. You'll find Original Drawings, Prints and Note Cards.
Shop members
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Kirsten
Owner, Designer
I love drawing architecture. I love maps. I trained in architecture at Virginia Tech and architectural history at the University of Virginia. I want to capture places I love by drawing them. And I hope to share these places, this love, with you.
Shop policies
Please Ask for quantities greater than listed. I print to order.
Please let me know what you think. I aim to please.
Accepted payment methods
Returns and exchanges
I gladly accept returns and exchanges
I don't accept cancellations
The following items can't be returned or exchanged
- Custom or personalized orders
- Perishable products (like food or flowers)
- Digital downloads
- Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
- Items on sale
Returns and exchange details
Shipping
Postcard packs ship sealed in clear, cellophane sleeve inside a folded 9x12 envelope.
Large bulk postcard orders ship in cardboard boxes with protective padding inside.
Prints smaller than 13" ship flat, backed by 100% recycled acid-free backing board in a clear, sealed cellophane sleeve. Packaged flat in an industrial board envelope.
Prints larger than 12" ship rolled, in a clear cellophane sleeve, in a heavy-duty mailing tube.
Original Watercolors ship flat to preserve the integrity of the heavier watercolor paper. They are packaged in a clear, sealed cellophane sleeve, protected between two sheets of 100% recycled acid-free backing board and shipped in an industrial board envelope.
I ship weekly, on Wednesdays or Thursdays. However, please check my Shop Announcement on the top of the front page in case of a shipping delay while I am travelling.
WITHIN THE US, I ship Prints United States Postal Service First Class (3-5 days from ship date weather permitting), with Tracking. Please let me know if you need your order sooner and I'll do my best to get it to you quickly, including shipping upgrades if needed. I ship ORIGINALS via USPS Priority Insured (3-5 days from ship date weather permitting).
For Shipping OUTSIDE THE US, I charge a flat rate to cover all areas but will reimburse you the difference if it costs less than $55.00 to ship your order. I cannot guarantee an undamaged or timely arrival. I'm sorry - this is a risk of international shipping. But, I will do my very best to package and ship your order with the best chance for an undamaged and timely arrival! Thank you!