Life is a Carousel

ACEO "The Carousel"

I woke up late today and tuned on my favorite tv show "Sunday Morning" just in time to catch the end part of a feature about carousels and one woman's 22 year effort to restore the historic carousel from Idora Park in Youngstown, OH that she bought at auction. The story is here:
http://carouselnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=140&Itemid=66

These are photos from a restored carousel in Chapel Hill Mall in Ohio.

Virtual Paint Out

I think Bill Guffey is a genius! Bill has started a blog of virtual plein air paintings composed of scenes found using Google Maps. Bills Blog Virtual Paintout featured Paris this month.

We logged into Google and toured the city using the street view feature.I stumbled upon the Carousel that is near the Eiffel Tower and fell in love.

I did my painting ACEO size (2.5 x 3.5") and will list it on EBay. Its shown here in a virtual mat.

Paris - Florence- Barcelona

Its a busy Virtual Summer for me. In May a group of us 'internet' artists used Google Maps to paint street scenes from Paris. I chose the Carousel. All of this cyber painting is organzied by Bill Guffey on his blog Virtual Paint Out

In June we moved to Florence Italy.
I was feeling a little confined in the streets of Florence so I moved up to the mountains and using the Google street view found a beautiful vineyard to paint,Via delle Corbinaie, Scandicci, Tuscany, Italia



My painting is 15 x 30" on stretched canvas

Close ups:







And today, I popped in on Bill to discover that the city for July is Barcelona. I'm sure I will spend hours exploring the city deciding where to 'set up' by easel.
I'll send you a postcard!