Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Virtual Paintout on Cape Cod

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From Salt Works Road
Watercolour
©2014 Charlene Brown

The Virtual Paintout is on Cape Cod this month 

I’ve never been to Cape Cod, but have often heard references to ‘Cape Cod cottage’ style… so I set off on Google Streetview with some pretty definite ideas about what features I was looking for. And I wanted the place with all the appropriate Cape Cod cottage characteristics to be rather larger than a cottage, and to have a nice ocean view.

I soon learned that most of the nice big ‘cottages’ have so many trees you can barely see the house, much less any sign of the ocean, and painted the first exception to this rule.  Here is a link to it