This month’s Virtual Paintout is in Cape Town, South Africa. What a beautiful country! I needed a project I could complete in an hour or two so I chose a simple scene and a small panel to paint on (5×7″).
But I think I spent as much time tooling around South Africa on Google Streetview than I did painting. And tonight I had such a hard time getting the color right in the photo (the sky in the painting isn’t turquoise, it’s a warmer blue) that I’ve probably spent an equal amount of time trying to fix the photo and get this blog post finished!
So I will let it be. As my boss always says, “…good enough for jazz!” She knows I can be a perfectionist and has taught me that little mantra so that I don’t get stuck finessing one little thing while all the other work stacks up.
Here’s the original photo from Google Streetview:
Jana Bouc, Artist 
7 replies on “Capetown South Africa: Virtual Paintout”
The photo is nice, but your painting adds “life” to it — especially the light in the sky and on the mountain.
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Jana. I like the shapes in the scene you chose. I haven’t done the Virtual Paintout in almost a year, but have been very impressed by the scenes people have been finding and painting in South Africa. Nice job.
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I believe I like your painting better than your inspiration pic! It has more life in it! Thanks for reminding me about the Virtual Paint-Out and Google Street View….I no longer can say I don’t have anything to paint!
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Beautiful painting Jana.
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I like your version better!
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Colours are lovely (here in Cape Town, the colours are richest early in the morning and esp in late afternoon), but may I be pedantic and point out that the pic is of Devil’s Peak, not Table Mountain? They’re part of the same range, but not the same mountain.
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Love your vision of the area. ‘Specially like the colors of the sweeping grasses. I too spend way too much time rambling the countryside in comparison to actually painting.
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