I don't see any copyright issues here at all. You are taking inspiration from the painting(s) and creating a totally different work or 'art'. Do keep us up to date on your progress! And good luck to you.
Lorri F > From: quietasa...@gmail.com > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:55:42 +0200 > Subject: [lace] Lace from a painting > To: lace@arachne.com > > I have decided to embark on a new adventure in lacemaking! This will > actually represent two departures for me, since I don't work in color (I do > mostly altar linen and traditional patterns) and I've never tried to design > my own pattern beyond the simplest. > > A friend of mine in the US sent me the catalog from an exhibition of > Australian Aboriginal women's paintings called "The Painted Song". Many of > these paintings have a very "textile feel" to them and some of them depict > the witiji (hair strings) that are given by men to women to mark significant > life events. So, from fiber to two dimensions, back to fiber. > > I want to take a detail from a painting by Pansy Napangardi, which can be > seen online at <http://tinyurl.com/6j8pcnj>. The part I want to interpret in > lace is the central feature. The sinuous line in the filling is just crying > out to be made in punto mimosa and the dried berry clusters in the carrying > baskets (the oval shapes at six and two o'clock) can be done the way flowers > are made in Cantu lace. The U shapes (representing the two traveling women) > and their digging sticks (the adjacent straight lines) I see as little round > tallies between plaits. > > I still have no idea about the filling through which the mimosa will snake. > I'm thinking about something using two or three colors in the passives, and > maybe a very loose and airy cloth stitch. Or maybe I'll do some sort of > complicated weaving of plaits. > > Since this is just for my own pleasure and the joy of challenge I don't > think there are any copyright issues, are there? > > Does anyone have any comments, suggestions, caveats? > > Thanks! > Sr. Claire > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
