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Friday Favorite: Alison Murray Whittington

4/17/2015

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This Friday's featured artist is Alison Murray Whittington and her fun maps of imaginary lands!
I love her colors and sense of whimsy in her work!

She writes:
"I can pinpoint my love of maps (what a perfect analogy, eh?) to my first National Geographic subscription. I grew up in the Northern Nevadan desert, which at the time seemed to be the most unmagical place there could be. I used to pin those National Geographic maps up on my ceiling and lie in bed, dreaming of places I’d go someday and dreaming of being a mapmaker. And now I am. I just did a lot of other things, first."
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Surpise Island Treasure Map
She goes on to explain:
"As for the mapmaking process, I draw complicated things by pencil first, but usually I just sit down with a dip pen and a bottle of India ink and start drawing from scratch…Once the inking is done, I add watercolor. (Every part of the process is my favorite part, but this is my reeeeally favorite part, because I get to play with bright colors and I get really breathless around bright colors.)"
map art
Sea of Laughter, Western Shore, Map
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Island of the Yellow Dragon
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Sea of Imagination
See more of Alison's work in her Etsy shop at paintandink.etsy.com, and view her process and works in progress on her Facebook page at facebook.com/paintandink and on her blog at paintandink.blogspot.com.

Have a great weekend!
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1 Comment
Lizabeth Vance Shake
4/16/2015 10:22:54 pm

Love all of these maps.How fun to go on a different journey on each one.

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