I love participating in the
Virtual Paintout each month. Bill Guffey hosts and chooses the monthly location based on cities the Google Street View vehicles have covered. Bill posts the submissions on his blog and on Facebook. For March 2015 we traveled to Greenland for our paint-out views. Another place I will never see in person! The world's largest island, Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Under 60 thousand people live there. As much as I had time to look around, I didn't see any trees or animals. According to Wikipedia the most significant inhabitant is the group of microbes that colonize cryoconite (windblown dust) that contributes to rapid glacial melting. Hmmm. Of course there were some beautiful views of the ocean, islands, and several harbors. I had no trouble finding two subjects to paint.
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| 5 x 7" Watercolor |
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| 5 x 7" Gouache |
Wow, Sherry, interesting use of color - you really made your painting spectacular with color!
ReplyDeleteThanks Joani...hard to get the colors looking right online.
DeleteTwo really strong pieces Sherry, love you colour choice and the darks in the first one particularly, Happy Easter to you
ReplyDeleteHappy Easter to you too Lorraine!
DeleteSo fun traveling along with you, Sherry. Your colors are just brilliant.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry...the colors are hard to get looking right online.
DeleteBeautiful skies!
ReplyDeleteThanks Barbara!
DeleteLike the watercolor best - Don't know if it's the best but I like it the most. How you managed to put color in the sky that is similar to the ground. I want to go there.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not I actually know two residents of Greenland. I think it was one of the few countries that went absolutely broke during the Bush administration economic crisis. Bet you didn't know that - or that theres an artist residency that has you working on an Icelandic pony farm.
Thanks Liz, I'm trying to do better skies. Great info! :-)
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