painting a picture

dirtyghettokid

this is an odd one --
got a message on flickr, asking could they paint one of my pictures.

i actually do not know what to say! i would have thought people would just paint off the picture & not say anything. this person has a website, looks like they are a pro. exhibitions paintings & more than likely sells them.

have any of your got a request like that before?

magicbastarder

from one or two friends of family, yeah. i always said yes.

well, always = twice.

thebaz

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

have any of your got a request like that before?

a few years ago, a Dublin artist asked me the same thing , i have / had no problem , she did a brilliant job and loved the work. In this world of plagiarism , think it is the right thing to do, to ask -

kjt

Yup I've had a woman in NZ ask to charcoal some of my street photographs a few times. I've always said yes, I think it's cool to see your work interpreted by somebody else.

dirtyghettokid

did any of you get to see the finished work afterwards?

kjt

Yup. This was the shot Kay found on my blog




Sorry it's so big

homerun_homer

I had someone ask me about drawing some pictures on mine of a band (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club). I looked at her page and her charcoal drawings were amazing so I gave her permission. She did one drawing based on my photos.

Years later and the band have used her to draw portraits of them based on photoshoots they took and these were used for the artwork and promotion of their latest album. I was very happy to see that and made me far more proud to have been asked.

thebaz

dirtyghettokid wrote: »

did any of you get to see the finished work afterwards?

gave me an idea to use my rarely used blog ;-)

http://thebaz1.tumblr.com/

dirtyghettokid

seen your post on tumblr, before here .. very cool!

OldGoat

Just for the sake of discussion on kjts/Kays painted portrait, who owns the copyright, the photographer, the artist or the subject (assuming no model release has been signed).

magicbastarder

i didn't get to see the two i gave permission for.
regarding OldGoat's question, i would suspect it's a lot down to whether the new work would be considered derivative, or different enough to be considered a new art work in its own right.
personally, i think the example kjt posted would be the former rather than the latter.