This Friday’s featured artist is Lisa R. Middleton of Great River Arts!
Her hand-painted historic maps are lovely!
Her hand-painted historic maps are lovely!
She likes to work on maps with history; maps of places people love; maps that have stories.
Her process includes scouring library collections and old bookstores for interesting maps, enlarging them at very high resolutions, then painting them using watercolor and oil pastels.
Middleton's favorite maps include authentic depictions of wagon roads as well as railroads.
If a large valley, such as what is now Spokane, Bozeman, or Boise, are described as unexplored,
so much the better!
Her process includes scouring library collections and old bookstores for interesting maps, enlarging them at very high resolutions, then painting them using watercolor and oil pastels.
Middleton's favorite maps include authentic depictions of wagon roads as well as railroads.
If a large valley, such as what is now Spokane, Bozeman, or Boise, are described as unexplored,
so much the better!
Many different things can make a map interesting, according to Middleton.
Sometimes places on the map have disappeared like Jennings on one of her favorite Montana maps.
Sometimes maps represent wishful thinking such as the Northwest passage created by the Missouri River on her 1732 De l’Isle map, Carte de la Louisiane.
See more of Lisa’s hand-painted historic maps on her website here! Visit her Facebook page, too!
TGIF!
Mary^
Sometimes places on the map have disappeared like Jennings on one of her favorite Montana maps.
Sometimes maps represent wishful thinking such as the Northwest passage created by the Missouri River on her 1732 De l’Isle map, Carte de la Louisiane.
See more of Lisa’s hand-painted historic maps on her website here! Visit her Facebook page, too!
TGIF!
Mary^
