A wonderful man, Bill Guffey, runs a monthly challenge which uses the Google Maps of the world. It's called the
Virtual Paintout. Each month he chooses somewhere in the world - this month, July, it's the Isle of Jersey. You go to the Virtual Paintout, you click on the Google Map, you then cruise around Jersey, using the little yellow man feature on the Google Maps (he shows what that little spot on the map where you're hovering actually looks like. You spend hours cruising around hoping to find something picturesque enough that you'd like to paint it. I've done this every month, spending hours and hours and have never found anything that I wanted to paint. Grump, grump. I look at the paintings other people have done and wonder how in the world they found that!! on the google map. I wish that Bill Guffey would post the location on the map that was used to paint from. He says that we're supposed to put the link on our blogs/websites but I haven't found anyone who's done that yet. I think it would be a fantasic learning situation: what you see and what you paint.
I finally found something I thought I could paint so I submitted it this month. It should be on the website by tomorrow or the next day.
Here's the
link I used on the Google Map:
and here's what I painted from that link:
My friend Nancie Johnson also submitted a painting this month. Here's her
link and then look what she did with it!!
There's another wonderful painter out there,
Nancy Goldman, whose work I found because of her comment re my blog. She has already painted two versions of her search of the Isle of Jersey for Bill Guffey's challenge.
You did Corbiere lighthouse as I did, though yours is a more distant view. This month it is easy for me, because I lived on Jersey for a number of years. I usually follow roads down to the water on Google maps, but in Jersey I know what is at the end of all those roads because I drove them in my little car.
ReplyDeleteThose russety reds are amazing, aren't they.