I've Spent Months Locked In My Studio Painting Facebook

It occurred to me that in these modern days artists no longer sit out on windy cliff tops and suffer hay fever in summer fields. With all these images falling into your lap via Facebook you can find all the visual inspiration you might need online. Not only that but I can help others turn their throw away images into memorable works of art. I've always been interested in how we see the real world and how we see the world through social media. Social media shows us all the good bits of peoples lives, especially the holidays and day trips. We look on and in some way go along on the trip too. In times of recession the cash to get to lovely places dries up for us artists. Maybe non artists with a camera phone sending images back will come to replace our inspirational trips. Either that or I'm going to have to find myself some rich patrons to send me and my oil paints to exotic climbs or collector to buy more work. For the next six months I've enough lovely Facebook Friends photos to keep me in my studio 8-10 hrs a day painting. Scrutinising ever detail of an image, making up my own stories about the place and applying layers of oil paint. Creating traditional time laboured images from an un-traditional click of a camera. It's good fun and it feels good to get the likes and the commissions to do more. Thank goodness for the invention of the camera. The collection is growing slowly here: http://bethbarlow.com/fineart/fineart.htmlwww.facebook.com/beth.barlow.777?fref=nf