How to Gain Inspiration for Acrylic Feather Painting

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village my name is Carolyn Travisano and I'm here to tell you about painting on feathers. So I love going through magazines and different art books, and different magazines and basically pulling reference up. Images, pictures and painting that I just find attractive or look beautiful. Something that in a later date I could use incorporation with different ideas that I have. I don't suggest that you copy for forbidden or exactly what you see what you see when you pull it out of the magazine because that is basically stealing somebody else's art work. But as a artist you are more then welcome to go through it is legal but to take different ideas from different pictures. Bringing together and making it your own. So here is, I have a few different ideas that I have pulled from magazines. I have a very large reference library and a lot of it is southwest and also animals. Lots and lots of animals. So of the feathers that I have started here mostly portraits and I have a couple of animals so I'm going to pull and show you pull out different ideas that I have. This is a feather that I have done once before and that is something else I do I take pictures, I copy each feather that I do so I have a reference catalog. And to show other people that are looking through my portfolio and they want one but the are not sure which one that you want. I give them many different ideas to go through and I also use it as a future reference if they want to do something similar. So here I have this really amazing painting from Jane Martin McGuire and it is a bobcat and I have also done a bobcat once before to incorporate her painting as far as color and some of the sweetness in the bobcats face with me and do a design of my own. As far as portraits are concerned if I'm doing a female portrait I would take three or four different ideas that I find that I like and incorporated in the feather. You can see basically my bases of the design my painting with what you see here because it is a combination of three different paintings. "