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Some of the places we can find inspiration is from online art store tutorials, artist's webpages, following artists on Pinterest, and so on. This page will be a collection of anything and everything in all art mediums that can help inspire you. Please share anything that inspires you in the comments below. Feel free to share your own webpages. Who knows maybe I will add what you've shared to this page! As you may or may not already know but there is a separation from fine art and craft. Ask any professionally educated fine artist and they will likely argue that craft is not art. Fine art is defined as something that is created to only be aesthetically pleasing while craft is defined as something that is functional regardless of its aesthetic qualities. Of course that can still be argued, especially by ceramic/pottery artists. Nonetheless, it is common for craft to inspire fine art and sometimes mixed media can be a crafted piece of fine art. So do not disregard craft when looking for inspiration!
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Important FYI!
Copyright
Please use other artist's work for visual enjoyment and/or inspiration but please DO NOT COPY OR USE SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK WITHOUT THEIR WRITTEN PERMISSION! Just because you don't see a copyright symbol does not mean there is no copyright. It is no longer required to include the copyright symbol on copyrighted works. It is best to assume that everything is copyrighted.
Copying or using works outside of the free to use rights in the public domain or Creative Commons (CC) and/or not following the requirements attached to the allowed usage for that work is illegal. You cannot just attribute it on your own and consider that legal and you can't just claim that you don't own something. You need to follow the copyright laws as they are written for that particular piece of media.There are different rights and stipulations to creative commons and any other kind of rights to use copyrighted material so please do the research to find out what is allowed. You can still be sued. My motto for this is; if you can't find any information on the copyright to the media or you are in doubt, don't use it.
Intellectual Property
The basic law is, if you created it, you are the perspective owner and you automatically own the copyrights to it (which is known as Intellectual Property). You can choose to give up copyrights to your media with or without stipulations (see Creative Commons website). In any case, you need to give up those permissions in a clearly stated form. The best way is to link the page that defines your requirements so there is no confusion (example link to Creative Commons requirement for usage).
Resources & Links
The website links included on this website belong to other entities and are not affiliated with the owner of this site. If you find a broken link directly on this site, let me know in the comments. I will try to correct it or I will remove it. However, if you find a broken link on another site that you entered from here, then you will need to notify that website, not this one.
Websites About Art & Artists
- Creative Visual Art
- Diviant Art
- Art in Action - art related link database
- Artspan Contemporary Art - (for inspiration - memberships available if you want to include your art but you don't have to join to view work.)
- Fine Art Studio Online
Buy Art Supplies
I always recommend doing your research when shopping for supplies. Being an artist is expensive so it's worth doing the work to save money.
- Dick Blick
- Jerry's Artarama
- Utrecht Art
- danielsmith.com
- Mister Art
- smile.amazon.com (this is amazon.com but smile.amazon.com donates (their) money to the charity you choose when you complete a purchase.) - Amazon has great deals but sometimes Amazon is more expensive when it comes to art supplies.
- Uline for shipping materials
References
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