Virtual Paintout - U.S. Virgin Islands II - August 2018 (first stages)

After concentrating on urban sketching in coloured pencil for months, it was nice using oil paints again. I plan to continue working on this painting but had to sign and photograph today in order to meet the deadline for Bill Guffey's VPO site.

Here's the link I used: Google Street View

The three previous stages:

Link to final version

"Clouds at Isaac Point"
8x10inch oil on canvas
(private collection, Brussels)

Virtual Paintout - U.S. Virgin Islands - August 2018

What a great surprise this month: the Virtual Paintout is back and Bill Guffey selected the US Virgin Islands for his first paintout in nearly a year. 

As soon as I found out, I began visiting St. Croix in Street View. The Google images date from summer 2016 so a year before Irma and Maria struck the island. I didn't want to paint views of people's homes while wondering if they had resisted the category 5 hurricanes, so I settled on some quiet beachscapes. 

Here's the Google Street View link: The beach at Sandy Point 

“Sandy Point”
13x18 cm oil on canvas panel