Hi
In practicing portraiture, one of the tactics I've employed was to do paintings/drawings from reference photos of celebrities. I felt that I could more easily see where the likeness was missed or was present, and they were fun to do because they were portraits of folks I admired. However, I soon began to get lots of comments from family and friends that they loved my portraits, but that I should devote my efforts more fully to things that I could actually display! Thus, the question. When you do a portrait from a stock photo of a celebrity (no matter who it is), what do you do with them? Do you hang them in your home? Do you give them away? As far as I can see from reading copyright law (and this is by no means the final word) I don't belive that one can display the work in any way publicly...and certianly one cannot do a commission using a studio reference photo to which one does not hold the rights.
Just curious if anyone else has had that sort of chiding from well-meaning members of the family or the friend crowd??
Here are a couple of my portraits of celebs just for grins....Walter Cronkite is Pastel on Stonehenge, Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn is Pencil/Charcoal on Bristol Plate, and Katie Jackson (the little hobbit child) is graphite on bristol plate, Harrison Ford as Indy is Colored Pencil on Renewal. Oh, and the KerryKin.....er...that's pumpkin on pumpkin.....
Note that these were taken at various stages in the development of the portrait and don't represent the end product....but I couldn't find those....
Mark
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