This lake wall art comes with a volcano. An original vintage-style travel poster of Guatemala's caldera lake seen from a hillside terrace — bougainvillea beside a whitewashed wall, one lancha crossing the sapphire water, and a purple-blue cone rising on the far shore.
The design is drawn flat — an elevated view from a hillside terrace across a deep sapphire lake, a single white lancha trailing a wake mid-water, and a purple-blue volcano rising on the far shore beside layered blue ridges and tall cumulus clouds. Magenta, pink and peach bougainvillea fills the lower left, a golden-green shrub and red-flowering bushes flank a whitewashed terrace wall cutting diagonally across the foot, and a woven Guatemalan textile band in orange, red, blue and teal runs along the bottom edge. The lettering sits in the sky: small LAKE between diamond-tipped rules, ATITLÁN large in cream serif capitals, and GUATEMALA in orange beneath a small diamond ornament, worked in sapphire blue, sky blue, cream, magenta and orange. Printed to order on heavyweight matte art paper with a smooth, uncoated surface that keeps those hard colour edges crisp and readable from across the room. No glare, no plastic sheen, no photograph: just paper and ink.
- Paper: 189 g/m2 (10.3 mil) heavyweight matte art stock — substantial enough to hang unframed without curling
- Finish: uncoated matte — no glare under lamps, windows or gallery lighting
- Opacity: 94%, so a wall colour or a second sheet behind it never shows through
- Brightness: 104% ISO — a bright white base that keeps the flat colour blocks saturated
- Origin: paper milled in Japan; every poster is printed to order, never warehoused
Size chart
| Poster size | Art panel (centred) | Works well |
|---|---|---|
| 12"" × 18"" | 12 × 15 in | desk shelves, small nooks, gallery-wall filler |
| 18"" × 24"" | 18 × 22.5 in | bedrooms, home offices, above a console or sofa |
| 24"" × 36"" | 24 × 30 in | living rooms, stairwells, a single statement wall |
The illustration is a 4:5 panel centred on the sheet with an even margin above and below, so it sits well in an off-the-shelf frame with or without a mat. Ships rolled in a protective tube, unframed.
Quick answers
Which size should I order? The 18″ × 24″ is the safe default for most walls. Take the 12″ × 18″ for a desk, a shelf or as part of a gallery cluster, and the 24″ × 36″ when the poster is meant to be the focal point of the room.
Does it come framed? No — it ships rolled and unframed in a protective tube. All three sizes are standard US frame sizes, so a shop-bought frame fits without a custom mat. A ready-to-hang framed version of this design is listed separately.
Is this a reprint of an old travel poster? No. It is an original illustration drawn in the mid-century travel-poster tradition — flat colour, clean edges, bold lettering — and a new composition made for RaZits. It is not a scan of a historic print.
Is that volcano real? Yes — Lake Atitlán fills a volcanic caldera in Guatemala's western highlands and is ringed by three volcanoes: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro. It is the deepest lake in Central America, and the lanchas in the picture are the public boats that link shore villages such as Panajachel, San Pedro La Laguna and Santiago Atitlán.
The lake with a volcano on the horizon, printed to order.
