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Hey there!
Are you as completely flipped out by the fact that it's November 18th as I am??? eeeeee-gads! Where does the time go?
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Hot Off the Easel!
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12 x 12
Acrylic on Canvas
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Idea Spark-lers
| | Do you need some painting ideas to get you going? Well, you've come to the right place!
Yes! Go ahead... be a copycat! Copy your favorite masterwork....
There are 2 broad areas of study when you're learning to paint... The technical side (how exactly do you apply the paint, safe practices, color mixing, etc.) and the creative side (what to paint, what do you want to say about your subject, how can you best communicate your idea)
When you copy a masterwork, (as in something from a museum) the creative bit is already finished for you... all you need concern yourself with is the technical side... How the heck did they do that? It's a terrific practice. You already know what your outcome should be, and you'll learn a lot trying to get there.
John Singer Sargent is one of my heros. Especially his watercolors. As an exercise, I copied his "Spanish Fountain" painting...and learned LOTS about brush strokes. What looks like random slap dabs are well thought out and executed to perfection. sigh. Here's a link to his... and below is mine. I wrote on the painting "copy of JS Sargent's Spanish Fountain" like anyone would think otherwise... LOL.
And because it's never to early to learn...
A few words about copyright...
A work is copyrighted as soon as it's created, whether you register it or not. You hold the copyright of your work until your death, and your estate holds it for 70 years after that.
Photographs are copyrighted by the photographer, so you can't freely copy pictures from the computer as your own work, unless you're granted written permission by the photographer or artist.
You can use them as references (combining many photographic views of something for your own creation... for example, how exactly does a polar bears chin look, etc.) and copy them for practice, but you can't post them online or sell them or even give them away. (That was new to me... I thought you could give them away.)
I always get permission when posting another artist's work on my blog, even when giving credit. They have always agreed, and appreciated the publicity (so far) but it is their right to refuse.
It's a complicated business... to be really really safe, use only your own photos to paint from.
Here's a great link about copyright (written for kids...that's why it's understandable)
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