Duke Championship Painting

[OZZIE4DUKE]

If y'all haven't seen this painting and thread on the DBR main board, you need to!
http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/for ... hp?t=21585

CB&B, this guy is making a living the way you want to!

[CameronBornAndBred]

I saw his painting, and his website. I like his style, I just have issues with using other's images.

His Duke legends painting is a good example, it's on his site..http://www.jasonrobichau.com/.
Find the painting, and then look at this picture of Laettner.



It's the same image, so too me, the majority of the artistic process has already been done. You can spend 5 days working on a painting, but if it's from someone else's image, you are just coloring in the lines. Beyond that thought, he is a talented artist.

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

So, Chris, you believe that painting from your OWN photos is okay, but using one somebody else took should be off limits.

I use photography extensively when planning a painting because I'm lousy at getting my composition created and deciding on the boundaries of the thing and what to leave in or take out. I picture seen through a viewfinder really helps me simplify. Also, back in the studio I have something to refer to when I'm finishing it off.

My painting time is so limited that I don't think I'd EVER get done without the help of the camera.

Love, Ima

[CameronBornAndBred]

So, Chris, you believe that painting from your OWN photos is okay, but using one somebody else took should be off limits.

That is how I work. Someone got paid to to take the photo that was used, he liked the image, and then used it for his own work. I find it very similar to "sampling" in songs. A lot of music artists were up in arms years ago because other groups would rip their music and put it into their own work, without paying royalties. Now if he has paid someone for the use of their image, that's at least made it ok in the eyes of the person who took the photo.
I work almost exclusively from photos, and I'm very particular in what images I use. Ask Dukeusul, I took about 50 photos of Katie to find the one that I really wanted to use for her portrait. There are some instances where I have no choice but to use someone else's picture (due to distance or the fact that someone is dead), but for me it just boils down to principle and my own artistic preference. Long story short, if I didn't take the image from which the painting was created, I don't feel as if the whole of the work is mine.

[Devil in the Blue Dress]

So, Chris, you believe that painting from your OWN photos is okay, but using one somebody else took should be off limits.

That is how I work. Someone got paid to to take the photo that was used, he liked the image, and then used it for his own work. I find it very similar to "sampling" in songs. A lot of music artists were up in arms years ago because other groups would rip their music and put it into their own work, without paying royalties. Now if he has paid someone for the use of their image, that's at least made it ok in the eyes of the person who took the photo.
I work almost exclusively from photos, and I'm very particular in what images I use. Ask Dukeusul, I took about 50 photos of Katie to find the one that I really wanted to use for her portrait. There are some instances where I have no choice but to use someone else's picture (due to distance or the fact that someone is dead), but for me it just boils down to principle and my own artistic preference. Long story short, if I didn't take the image from which the painting was created, I don't feel as if the whole of the work is mine.

Chris, what you describe regarding use of your own photos, rather than those made by someone else, is an important distinction which can be recognized by anyone who dabbles even a little bit in the visual arts. It's a purity of sources that is embedded in the creative process. You know that your painting is your own creativity at work, not something "borrowed" from someone else.

[Ima Facultiwyfe]

Just keep on shootin' and paintin' and we'll all keep saying "WOW!"
Love, Ima