olha pryymak

I am messing around with watercolors again, to get my hand looser and more spontaneous on my large scale paintings, plus there has been awfully few girls in my work recently, so here’s the catch up; and here’s another one.

6×8 in,  2010,  listed on Etsy

Inspired by Sartorialist. This is about the first time I drew from a reference photo that I did not take myself or have not been asked to use by the photographer. I recently did some work that had to involve some partial use of borrowed material and then around the same time I saw a show about Picasso and how he boldly used old master paintings as reference. The legal rule of thumb I’ve heard is if art created off someone else’s creative property, it’s got to be altered enough to be it’s own thing. To me it’s also about  how close  the used image is to what I am trying to express, so the photos I took, and, therefore are my personal expressions, translate into more successful and complete painting. What thoughts do you have on this point?

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