D81, Patrimonio, Northern Corsica, France

Oil on Canvas, 6" x 6" / $100

After speaking with Google's Maps Team, an artist named Bill Guffy determined that artists can use images from Google Street View as reference for creating paintings and drawings and the artists can sell these works without worry of copyright infringement. I'm so pleased to have found his online challenge which is to gather in one area of the world, virtually, once a month with other artists and use Google Streetview to find a scene to paint. Recent gatherings have been in Nova Scotia, Paris and Seattle, this month it's Corsica. After taking a virtual drive around the French island, I settled on this little scene. I haven't done many landscapes, so it was a challenge indeed.... To see the other artist's works: http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/

Oh, and it's for sale, without worry...

Homage to Jean-Frederic Bazille

Oil on Canvas, 6" x 6" / SOLD

Painted after Bazille's "Young Woman with Lowered Eyes". This was in response to a challenge on Michelle Burnett's blog "Following the Masters". The challenge was to paint something of or like an artist that influences us in some way. Jean-Frederic Bazille (1841-1870) was a French Impressionist and I admire his use of color and free, powerful brushstrokes. I also like how my signature looks kind of like a tattoo slamming her into present day... (I'm so 3008, she's so 1869-and-late?) Here's a link to the blog: http://followingthemasters.blogspot.com/

Portrait of Rosemary Sexton

Oil on Canvas, 8" x 10" / NFS

Here is the portrait I did for the latest DSFDF challenge. We all sent photos of ourselves to Karin and she randomly paired us up to do portraits of each other. I had no idea who this woman was while I was painting her. Her identity was only recently revealed to me after she posted the portrait she did of me (see below). She is the very talented Rosemary Sexton (see her blog here: http://rosemarysextonpaints.blogspot.com/). I feel so lucky to have been paired up with her, she supplied me with a great photo to paint from, has a lovely face and painted such a nice portrait of me. Thanks Rosemary!

There are 180 artists who participated. Check them out here: http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com/

...and if you're REALLY into it, here's a cool YouTube video of the portraits with the photos we worked from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5lEKmlhaM4

Portrait of Me by Rosemary Sexton

Oil on Canvas, 8" x 10" / NFS

In return Rosemary did this portrait of me and I LOVE it. I especially like the feel of it; the brushstrokes on the textured canvas. Thanks Rosemary!

Airport Travelers

Oil on Canvas, 8" x 8" / $100

The latest for the a-MAY-zing DSFDF challenge from Karin. Between the skylighting and foreshortening, I had such doubt that I could do this...

She told us, "we are - everything is - form, shape and color." I took her advice and was patient, took it slow and was über-mindful of form, shape, color AND their relationship to one another. So happy I attempted it, I'm proud of myself and my very talented compatriots... see their work here: http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com

Lunch

Oil on Gessobord™, 6" x 6" / $100

City Rooftops

Oil on Gessobord™, 6" x 6" / $100

My entry for the latest DSFDF challenge (http://differentstrokesfromdifferentfolks.blogspot.com). It's done from a photo Karin took out of a hotel room in San Francisco, around Market Street.

She said if we attempted it, we'd learn something from it. And of course, she was right.