This painting is totally yours now. Gorgeous! (Small librarian soapbox/cheer incoming! it's positive, don't worry.) Naming your source not only gives credit, but it also allows the artist who follows you, even decades from now, to trace a path back from the work. They'll discover the "conversation" between your work and the botanical bible. Then, they can look at any sources named in the book and follow the conversation back even further. (Try it sometime if you haven't, folks. It's like a delicious internet rabbit-hole turned up to 11) Kristy, I know you acknowledged this by comparing it to writing a paper. I just can't help making the point explicit, because it makes me so happy. It's not a chore we should do from fear, but an investment in a rich creative environment for the future. OK, speech over! 😂

Its definately yours now! Its beautiful.... Salvador Dali said " Those who do not want to imitate anything , produce nothing."

You totally made this your own! I am trying so hard to get out of my ocd ways so that I feel like I can just see where my work will take me while inside I feel like there is a little version of me walking around, banging on a drum, singing "you suck, you're bad, you mess up everything" (oddly enough, a catchy tune)

honestly it was already transformed enough the first time! people are keyboard warriors i don't see how imitating a painting is any different then following a tutorial. the art will never be the same exactly and its a great way to learn! (i like both your pieces too) also i dont know how i missed this video when it first came out!

The mood is happier. The trace is functioning as an underpainting. The 2 are very different.

Very helpful video and that painting looks completely transformed into 'Kristy style' to me. I'm still at the stage where I am copying works of other artists that I'm learning from online. It's very helpful as a beginner and it's definitely helped my drawing and composition skills. I think since I'm someone who isn't selling their work or even showing it to others as their own, I'm comfortable doing that. One thing that struck me in your video is the conversation about fear. I question why I'm unable to move from copying to trying to find my own style and it really is all about fear. Something to work on for sure

I truly appreciate having the opinion of a professional artist on the subject of using references and making them original. As a newbie, I am inspired by so many artists and others photos and want to paint something from that inspiration, but am concerned it would be copying so then I don't try at all. This was so helpful! TY! ❤

Love it - I see no problem with acknowledging the source in the title, that surely honours the original. I really want to make art but, being terrified of the blank page, a trace is a helpful start - thank you for showing how to transform that into something original

Watching and listening to this video is wild. I don't do a whole lot of visual art anymore (though I may be getting back into it soon!) but I started from two different but I think complimentary directions: drawing cartoon figures (anime, really, but some western inspo too) and pixel art/sprite editing. I say they're complimentary because they're both very intention-filled, and when working on a canvas of about 50x50px, while there's a lot of unseen *work* in the finished product of choosing colors precisely and managing gradients, one pixel art a time... Every pixel is still *visible*. To me, the idea of putting effort into drawing something, painting it, and then just painting right over it? Feels like madness. Which isn't a negative. I couldn't let go in the way you do with the watercolor stuff, I'm beginning to learn, lmao. Which is fine. I'm glad this world for you.

I have a small book by Austin Klein called, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST. Great little book. If you are questioning this method... Read the book. It's okay, loosen up!😊

I'm getting my 🐈 and we are sitting down watching this learning how to steal art and make it our own together. How fun is this.

those dark negative spots made everything soooooo much better, wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

I think you've made this your own. Beautiful!

I love the bright colours of the end result, beautiful 😍

Very transformed into your own piece. This was a great video with a very good message

Wow, great words. Been working on being more loose in my paintings and just enjoying the process. I agree perfectionism=fear. Art has helped me so much. By the way you definitely made that your own and i love it! ❤ HUGS❤

So beautiful with all those bright colors!! I wish I could show you what happened today with a practice and new paint. I heard myself say “blends blend “ 😂 I’ve learned more from you than anyone. I so appreciate all you share with us.

Big Magic and Steal Like an Artist are two of my touchstones that I constantly return to. Love this.

I love this! Definitely your own 😊❤

You really teach a lot more than painting skills your fantastic 🤩

Think of it this way… if a young child started singing beautifully…. You wouldn’t stop them and say… no no no…not until you write the song, compose the score etc…..

Quote on quote artists especially ones that are selling their art get so wrapped up in the rules end come up with off the wall stuff like in water colors You can't use this and you can't use that and don't do this and don't do that it's absolutely ridiculous you can't have any fun. The subject of stealing other people's art, It's such a hot topic and among artists it really gets the conversation going. One hundred percent that is your painting in this case. In retail you are sent out to look at your competition and see how they're displaying their items and if it looks good you steal from them but, There's no law to say you can't make the same display. But in art, it creates so much argument. It really makes your head spin. Even when you don't even plan on selling it just for practice. If it feels wrong to you, don't do it...

Love how you are truly making this your own. I love the abstractness impressionist style this has transformed into. I love that "Just make the art!" You say with such true passion I'm running to my art room now! And yes I love making bad art and good to my eyes art because it's fun it's joy it's because Kristy Rice says so. I'm doing it!

Absolutely your own! Thanks for talking about this subject!

I'm in WV and was out photographing mountain laurel on my hike with family last weekend. It is such an interesting flower. I think it is also WV's state flower or shrub.

You did a great job transforming at piece. I can tell you were inspired by it but no, you have not stolen it. Thanks for the video.

Perfection is a form of fear. 😯😯 Ouch!! What a slap in the face and soooo true!! 😂 Guilty as charged. 🙋‍♀️ Personally, I think it looks too similar, but you are heading in the right direction. 👍 You seem to be taking a realism piece and turning it abstract with the square berries. As a non art critic, just a plain Jane who has no clue, my brain gets confused in that state(like it takes so much).... 🤪 I like the color changes!! 🌈

Love it, Kristy!!! Wish I could paint like you!

Love this mixed media. Don't we copy from God's creation all the time. Nothing wrong with tracing, especially with complicated subjects. Recently bought the Shirley Trevena book with mixed media . Took some ideas from her. You definitely put your stamp on it.

Its all YOU😊. Also, I trace sometimes because I can’t draw well and definitely mine turns out to be mixed media.

I love your style! Just stunning. Thank you the great advice.

Agree

Love your channel!

Absolutely gorgeous art! Love your rainbow ring & nail art too! TFS!

Yes, it’s definitely your own, in my opinion, and it’s just lovely

Wonderful tutorial. So helpful and encouraging. Thank you!

I cast a vote for you having you way crossed the line from steal to yours. This is fun to watch!

Ooo sticky topic. Finding the balance between inspiration, enhancing and copying. Even stickier if one then sells and profits from it. But the boundaries are shifting, esp with AI art now in the mix too. Was watching an Aaron Schwartz documentary and they showed how the internet changed copyright laws. Your piece was so interesting.

Love the pop ups and the painting!

I love everything about this! Thank you! I think it's all yours! You could name it revival 🎉❤

Would never guess the trace part! Fun watching!

doesn't look anything like the original. I think it is fine. Love the colours and the direction.

Side by side, I can still see they look very similiar. Especially with the butterfly where it is in relation to the berries. I can understand using the original as a source to see how the berries look or the shape of the berry leaves. And then arrange them in your own pattern on the page. Not everyone will have access to actual berry bushes. One needs some kind of refrence. I can understand tracing pages from a coloring book because you dont want to color in the actual book + maybe you want to practice a new media. Maybe you want to practice blending markers or you are just coloring for stress relief. Or maybe you are brand new to painting (like I am) and you are just learning how to actually paint. That I can understand - but you are not selling stuff. You just want to learn how to create shadows and light and you are at the very beginning stages of understanding this stuff. And not everyone has a goal of selling. But I would not copy ART. Use reference photos.

What you make is a new, "fully yours" original... under copyright law, every new original belongs to its maker. You can only copyright an exact format, not an idea. Ideas being to everybody.

I just can’t 😂 As soon as the color blocks went down after a nice loose start… anxiety. Might skip ahead. 😳😂

Wow! Learned so much😊

100% yours thanks😊

You definitely made this your own art!

I was with you compositionally till you added the white sprinkles. Sometimes, I think we go too far with that particular technique. As far as the ethics.... I saw the author of the book you referenced speak. He was very inspirational. I myself am all for drawing & painting original pieces of other artists as a learning technique, I've never thought of actually altering an original to the point of making it mine. I'll try it. But, I have an inner voice that keeps telling me that trying to sell it is still cheating.

you are super Amazing talent WOW So brillo ....thank you for sharing xxxxx

Love it!

Love your channel! New to paint! Still practicing on leaves! 🍃

while i understand art theft...i feel like i should point out that folks are allowed to copy paintings...also...there is growing evidence that old masters 'traced' their subjects via light sources and sketched them in that way...in either case or in tracing...you can certainly call it your own...because when you make a copy of the mona lisa...you have to alter it in some way...and when da vinci sketched his muse for the painting...he probably used light projection to sketch her in...but experimented and used his own experience and expertise to bring her to life...just my two cents

I like yours much more than the picture❣️‼️

I love it! It’s totally yours!!!

I really, really like this!

I love how this turned out. Can we use watercolor brushes with regular acrylics if not mixed together?

Don't think it's a rip-off. Even the sciences build on what was created in the past.

You totally made it your own. I liked it better than the first one you did.

Kristy - unless it is my imagination- I noticed a Color Cube??? Can you give your thoughts on this products and its value when watercolor painting please??? TY

Kristy it’s your art! Ok, I’m admitting my dirty secret, I steal from photos. I live in Arizona, in the lower Phoenix basin. We average 9” of Rain a year. We live amongst cactus. My muscle memory can draw any cactus 🌵. So I trace pretty photos of flowers, My best friend lives in PA. We trade photos. If there is a photo online ask the person who took it. I’m getting better at cutting things out and composing them. Animals may take 10 tries to trace before you catch that sparkle that only they have. Thank you whoever invented erasers.

I think it looks totally different.

You killed it!!! Looks nothing like the original.

Collage of ideas ❤

I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical when you started out. It seemed too much like the original. But by the end, it was, in my opinion, very much your own creation.

Hanging on my wall is an antique painting that I'm pretty sure is someone's student work where they copied a master artist. IMO, there's nothing wrong with studying (by that, I mean learning by attempting to emulate their work) the work of master artists. On the page or on the back, I will write that this was a study of the artist___. I wouldn't sell it, although it's funny because about 100 years later, clearly someone sold this guy's student work. If I am creating something for myself, I may be doing my interpretation of a mid-century or 19th century landscape to hang on my wall. I don't feel bad about that because few people are going to actually see it, I'm not trying to market my art, and, if anyone did see it, I'd happily tell them the truth. More than likely, they're going to assume it's a print. 😂That being said, as a creative, it really bothers me for other people to steal ideas from me. With the internet being basically a black hole, it's impossible to share your work or look something up to see if it exists without unwillingly sharing your ideas. It's bad enough that people I know do it. I've had people steal plot ideas, phrases from my writing, my bucket list, and my friends. That's probably why I don't try to put my work out there. I just enjoy doing it for what it is.

Hello from Australia I’m new to watercolor and you channel . I’m wondering can you please tell me what where the black pens you used. Thank you

An artist once told me, nothing is new or “ original “ it’s all been done before. 😂😂

You RAWQUE (I made it my own)

Can I still sell it legally though? Without the author/photographer nailing me for plagiarism or copyright?

If you state your inspiration in the title, do you need to ask for the author's permission? I would love to learn more about this.

Tracing someone else's art would never be acceptable for me. The very idea of it is too cringey.

Ok, I don’t see anything about the original, so why even take the time to trace and just skip to colorblocking and then draw/paint?

I trace all the time.. I have learned the most of my skills by tracing some one beautiful art. Do I sell it? No..

Completely original.

It's totally your own.

You took someone's artwork, traced it and colored it in. No, it's not an original piece. It is a very easy way out of taking time to draw and compose a piece. Lots of YT'ers are fond of tracing, instead of actually drawing something original.

Not a fan.

Do your own work from your self