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Thanks for your feedback. Yes Hilary, the photos of the gallery appealed because of the expressions of the viewers...very human reactions. I don't want you to think I'm feverishly copying these pictures, I just admire them, and often they'll put me in the right frame of mind to do something myself.
Obviously they sometimes directly influence a painting or cartoon. Another pic by Doiseau. When I saw it I thought what are the couple thinking...maybe it was of a time when they were younger and writhing about like the figures in the statue. So I haven't copied it, but taken an idea from it...actually my idea of what it might be about.
Some pictures I save because I find them simply beautiful...
Above by Brassai, another brilliant French photographer.
Brassie again.
Above, Doiseau again. Innocently erotic.
And sometimes, the pictures are funny or odd. In the picture below, the photographer probably said 'if you just lean back a bit...'
Some pictures I save because I find them simply beautiful...
Above by Brassai, another brilliant French photographer.
Brassie again.
Above, Doiseau again. Innocently erotic.
And sometimes, the pictures are funny or odd. In the picture below, the photographer probably said 'if you just lean back a bit...'
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by Lewis Cooper
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Hi Terry...if you look this thread was originally two years ado. It's so easy to do.
I think there are lots of free sites on line for photographs.
Suggestion.... if I might. Set up a still life, go to Life drawing ,sit in the street, the park , a cafe and draw what you see.
Take your own pics...why use other peoples. I have done that but always ask if you can.
.flowers, yourself, your family..the world is your inspiration. I was sitting in a hospital waiting room and drew this person....just go for what you can see.
Passed the time and she couldn't escape me ..lol
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by Sylvia Evans
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Yes Terry, this thread is old. When I set it up I was talking about how you can get inspiration from a picture. You see an idea and express it in an entirely different image. I was also commenting how great photographers 'see' an image, that others might miss. It wasn't about copying a picture or photo outright. So the thread swerved off in a different direction...as they often do.
If you want to copy photos there are plenty of copyright free websites on line. I see someone got in a plug for one. He's called a 'new member', but has no profile or gallery on this site, so probably spam. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize.
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Are there still copyright free photos on this site? There certainly used to be - I'm in the middle of cooking right now, or I'd have a trawl. There are certainly many others - Mr Google will find them.
Terry is not alone in seeking out photos for translation into paintings - one way or the other, I've painted or drawn an awful lot of scenes around here, and am not averse from seeking fresh inspiration; on the whole though - there are many other things worth doing; reversing an old photo; taking sections of it, and making a new picture from two, three, more images.
If I were going to be purist about it, I'd say work from your own photos when you can, and of course from your sketches - the weather is having a bit of a dampener on my sketching, in every sense of the term, and I do have some problems with just making things up - though why not, if you have that sort of imagination?
The one thing I wouldn't do is take a photograph from the web of an area, country, or continent of which I knew nothing, and try to make a painting of that - you won't get any authentic "feel", the atmosphere will be alien - the colours, the foliage, the birds and bees - unless you know them, have seen and experienced them, it will be very hard to make the picture work. Perhaps not impossible, but hard work.