tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11581266368386251582024-03-12T18:13:36.051-07:00Alison Litherland - paintingsAlison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-38949391388062163112013-01-01T10:59:00.002-08:002013-01-01T10:59:27.131-08:00<h2>
More old building photoshoppery</h2>
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Includes old breweries in Burton and Victorian streets in Spitalfields. Also some from Manchester</div>
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Alison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-31782545689600167622013-01-01T10:47:00.000-08:002013-01-01T10:47:12.451-08:00Floods<br />
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The floodplain in Burton is doing what it says on the tin. </div>
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Time for some drippy paintings.</div>
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Alison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-47752989472640867212013-01-01T10:32:00.000-08:002013-01-01T10:34:53.345-08:00<h2>
Ghosts of Old Spitalfields</h2>
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The most recent painting came about after I did some research into family history in London's East End, and I mused over the pointlessness of it. I could find out names, dates and locations of these people, but I wouldn't get to meet them -they were dead - or find out what kind of people they were. The painting is based on old photos - thanks to the excellent website 'The Ghosts of Old Spitalfields' (http://www.spitalfieldslife.com/2010/12/26/the-ghosts-of-old-london/) and shows streets empty of people.<br />
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Here are some of my preliminary sketches<br />
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<br />Alison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-86293879927511225182012-10-18T13:11:00.000-07:002012-10-18T13:21:04.057-07:00<h2>
Sketches from Scotland</h2>
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Years ago, I used to take pastels to Scotland to sketch.They made an amazing mess, I never had the right colours, and the wind blew the paper away. These are my first attempt at taking the magic sketchbook instead. The only drawbacks of this were that I couldn't see the screen in the sun and I figured it would be pretty unwise to use it in the rain.So here are sketches of cloudy but not rainy, weatherAlison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-9588593954793976772012-10-18T12:47:00.001-07:002012-10-18T13:18:18.659-07:00<h2>
Viruses scramble the brain</h2>
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These bleary-eyed images were a result of an afternoon slowly recovering from an assault by the common cold</div>
Alison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-25265646371868618412012-01-24T13:54:00.000-08:002012-01-24T13:54:08.546-08:00photoshopperyphotoshoppery is good for figuring out where the painting is going before committing paint to canvas. The next painting may resemble some of these<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zZSz5Jkjw5s/TwX0tOugVTI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Joamjs7EqiM/s1600/IMG_5428.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="105" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zZSz5Jkjw5s/TwX0tOugVTI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Joamjs7EqiM/s320/IMG_5428.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I really wasn't expecting this painting to turn out like this. It is the next in my old brewery buildings series, and I expected it to be more layered, more collage-like, more full of buildings and much less an image of the river. But it's definitely not finished yet. I shall probably get rid of the right-hand side in some wayAlison Litherlandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18394490961060589439noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1158126636838625158.post-31565076296018579682012-01-05T10:59:00.000-08:002012-01-05T10:59:31.521-08:00old brewery buildingsDeserted old redbrick solid massive Victorian brewery buildings - I feel they should look spooky and brooding but when I photographed them they just look dreary and uncared for. Time for some photoshop.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RNpdjJtgP0U/TwXtSpr_CJI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/vAQWRXcBclk/s1600/aIMG_5318.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RNpdjJtgP0U/TwXtSpr_CJI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/vAQWRXcBclk/s320/aIMG_5318.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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