tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post3374525386744396176..comments2024-03-11T06:27:38.308-07:00Comments on AND SEW IT GOES: PhotosTerry Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16650965451863656517noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-55199755618644043802013-10-28T11:06:35.643-07:002013-10-28T11:06:35.643-07:00My grandfather also had 'image files', and...My grandfather also had 'image files', and I kept paper ones until Pinterest and large storage PCs. I like your term "drawing by averages". :)Leighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11563230869151812456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-1694908291190457352013-10-27T17:29:00.413-07:002013-10-27T17:29:00.413-07:00This is a thoughtful, interesting and informative ...This is a thoughtful, interesting and informative list. I like to work from my own photos or sketches or both when I can. I do often use the internet to look up details that I may not be able to see in my own photo. Your idea of doing a composite from several photos is good.HollyMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18161858859864895000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-59061508281068535592013-10-26T07:15:34.803-07:002013-10-26T07:15:34.803-07:00Back in art school a teacher told us to start an &...Back in art school a teacher told us to start an 'image file' so if we needed to know how many legs a lobster has we would have a source. So I started one, filed magazine clippings alphabetically until the file folders practically burst. Then I carried the darn file drawers around for forty years. Thanksgod for Google images, now I can see lobster legs from 20 angles, different breeds, cooked, raw, and wild! I work the same way, call it my 'drawing by averages'! And. like your friend above, also do it with recipes. Sandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04286461271083389001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-13366652269398076672013-10-25T05:40:49.847-07:002013-10-25T05:40:49.847-07:00Well, I really like your photographs all by themse...Well, I really like your photographs all by themselves but I also love the way you use them to inspire something totally new and different in another medium.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283575512727062312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-84401637370098391512013-10-24T23:58:21.910-07:002013-10-24T23:58:21.910-07:00I sketched out an idea for a quilt the other day, ...I sketched out an idea for a quilt the other day, it had a bird in it, with it's head turned at a certain angle. About fifteen minutes later I was flicking through some art books (that focused on painting) to get colour ideas. And there was my bird, in the same part of the canvas, with the same general body shape and the same distinctive angle to it's head. I can't remember seeing this painting before (they were my MIL's books) but maybe I had? Maybe I had subconsciously absorbed that image and it had worked it's way to the surface again? He was a fairly famous New Zealand painter, so I could well have seen the image somewhere else. The rest of the picture I had sketched was different from the rest of the painting I was looking at, but the birds were SO similar, they were even the same breed of bird. I was immediately worried about plagiarism, but I DIDN'T copy it. So now what do I do? Do I continue on with my quilt knowing that it looks like I copied the bird? And I can't plead ignorance to not knowing about the painting, because now I do know about it, even if it was after I started my original sketch! Arrrrghhh!Charlotte Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11696100659597422648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16634800.post-59172197917100580862013-10-24T22:56:51.176-07:002013-10-24T22:56:51.176-07:00I love googling pictures to use for crafty stuff, ...I love googling pictures to use for crafty stuff, and collecting images on Pinterest is totally addicting. Almost too much inspiration. I will happily admit that my work is probably very derivative of whatever I've seen lately, and I have used online photos (even of other people's art!) at the start of a piece intending to make mine "just like that" because I think it's so wonderful and beautiful. Except, I get going, and I think, wouldn't it be cool if ... the photo gets pushed out of the way, and then starts the substitutions, change-ups, etc. At the end it's kindof fun to go get the photo again to see where it all started. I've never actually managed to copy anything, so I guess I don't need to worry about getting sued. <br /><br />My cooking is like that too. I use google to get 4 or 5 recipes, pick the good parts from each one and make up my own. Makes duplication kindof difficult, but it works nearly every time. Leigh in Portland (we are not burning down)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06372544021604211747noreply@blogger.com