A group of us meet at a Photo Workshop conducted by Andre Gallant last May.  Near the end of our time together, we started discussing weekly photo challenges and whether we wanted to pursue challenges as a group.  Andre had published his book, Inspiration, where he shares his images from his weekly challenges and that provided the genesis for our small group.

We started our weekly challenges in July.  The themes provided during 2013 were in step with Andre's Challenges and he often would participate, raising the bar for all of us.

Some of us agreed to participate for another year.  We changed the format slightly, where I post weekly challenges for an entire quarter and you can follow the weekly challenge or choose to submit an image whenever you "created" one that fit with the challenge.  It became more "like a patchwork quilt" as one of the members described it.

During my recent visit to Paris and Italy, I kept the weekly challenges in mind.  In my mind, it's always interesting to have a creative twist.  For one of the weeks, the challenge was "in the style of a famous painter".  I had the good fortune of visiting the Pompidou Centre while in Paris and spent some time viewing one of Andy Warhol's paintings.  The feature of the multi-image study was Elizabeth Taylor and showed about 8 or so different versions of her face.  The style of the portrait was very similar to the Marilyn Monroe multi-image portrait that most people are familiar with.

My creative twist was to take something of everyday life in Italy and used the multiple image effect that Warhol used so well.  I was partly thinking of his famous Campbell soup multiple image painting as I was looking for possible subjects.

For some reason, every time I took a walk I saw wash hanging from the window while in Italy.  So, I started with a "hanging wash" theme and this image.

Hanging Wash in Sestri Levante, Italy

I loved the colors of the towels and the small item, which might have been a bathing suit.  Plus, I enjoyed the green shutters too.

So, I took that image, manipulated it on my iPad using Photoshop Touch in order to get several different looks.  This was inspired by the Elizabeth Taylor multiple image that I saw at the Pompidou Centre.  Then I used the iPad app, Diptic, to arrange a number of these images similar to what Andy Warhol would do in his famous studies.  ENJOY!

PAD April 23 In the Style of Andy Warhol