Video: Virtual Traveler Pictures
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Bill Guffey has never walked the streets of London, New York or Barcelona. He had never seen a sunset in Italy or visited a Florentine villa. But the walls of his house are decorated with paintings from different cities in Europe and the United States, depicting the adventures of a desperate traveler. And how does Bill manage to paint authentic landscapes if in 99 percent of them he has never even seen the places that he depicts in his canvases?
Bill Goofy cannot afford to travel abroad, so he uses Google Street View to visit different places around the world and capture what he likes on his canvases. In 30 seconds of working at a computer, he can fly around the world and use Google Street View to find a place that he will subsequently draw. To find the landscape or attraction he needs, Goofy travels to all countries and cities until he finds the one where his gaze stops.
The beautiful river canals of Amsterdam, the villas of Florence, the fields of France, New York taxis, Swiss chalets, the street landscapes of Lisbon - and all this the artist saw while in his studio in Kentucky, USA. And all this remained immortalized in the paintings of Bill Goofy, which he paints with oils.
Bill Goofy takes great pleasure in the process of painting, the way the brush is applied to the canvas and displays the correct color and contours. The artist puts feelings and emotions even mood into his canvases.
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