June/July's topic was to map an oasis. I decided to take the idea of an oasis as a bit of fertile land in a desert and thought of it as some sort of reprieve from the harshness of the desert. To escape the madness of daily life I sometimes like to take myself off on walks in the many different environments in the part of the country I live. So it's like a sort of oasis. To me anyway. Oh and this particular area is known as the Brecks, which is sandy ground, so up until the forestation during the 1920s this whole area used to be a desert.

This map was done mostly in GIMP with labeling and the text done in Inkscape (thanks for the help ChickPea!). The WIP can be found here.

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