Artist captures the world with images from Google Street View

The artist Bill Guffey is attracting international media attention for the originality with using Street View, free resource offered by Google in their online world maps as a reference for his paintings. Recently, the Sun newspaper dubbed him "Vincent Van Google.

Guffey, who lives in Kentucky, USA, painted two series of paintings based on images from only those services, integrated with Google Maps that provides 360 ° panoramic view of a growing number of locations, in real images.

In the first series, Guffey "visited" all American states and made a painting typical of each region. As he explains on its website, the only thing that stood out was Hawaii, it does not own the Google service.

In the second set, Guffey "traveled" all over the world. There are paintings of the canals of Amsterdam (Netherlands), houses of Florence (Italy), vineyards in France, even the taxis in New York. The paintings can be seen in the direction www.bnguffey.con.

The artist published in one of their blogs are examples of the differences between the original photos and paintings. As in Table Berkley Street Morning, made an image of the street Berkley Street in the city of Rockland, where he says that changed the season, time of day and the accentuation of the curve in the street.

Guffey also further stresses that received permission from Google to make reproductions. The search portal would have said that artists can use Google Street View as a reference for their work when using traditional methods of artistic creation. Google also requires that the original photos containing the company logo when they are displayed.

"This action opens a world away for artists who are disabled or unable to leave their homes or studios," Guffey says on its website.

Guffey also created a blog, The Virtual Paintout, especially for collecting paintings by artists worldwide who also use Googe Street View. The blog, accessed under virtualpaintout.blogspot.con, has a rule that establishes that the artist used images from Google Street View to create his paintings.