Artist Resources Vintage Magazine Covers as an art resource
Public domain images you can use
Avg dates are publications 1910-1918 Old is new again .....Check out the many covers from this Paris company. These are beautiful days gone by. See an example below of how you can transform a cover to suite the style you need and create your own brand new piece of art. |
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See this example of 3 step altered art magazine cover:
LA VIE PARIS
Magazine Covers |
1) Add a witch hat
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2) Color the scarf - Add stockings
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3) Chg dog into a cat- take away the feather, darken the eyes
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The cover series above demonstrates the use of the paint.net program (free to download).
This final cover will be used as a reference for a future Halloween witch painting. All the work is done as far as the proportions and pose along with the right colors. If you have no editing program, no problem. Place a piece of tracing or drawing paper over a copied image of a cover. Make your changes on the paper. You can also place a sheet of watercolor paper over the image cover on a light table. Lightly pencil your changes -if there are any. Then proceed to paint a watercolor of the image by following the image using the source of light beneath it. Find these amazing covers by searching Google images; - La Vie Parisienne Magazines.
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