Reference Photos · Painting for Drawing Dropouts

Reference Photos

I don't know about any of you, but I usually think of other people's photos when I think of reference photos. But I realized something. In my Dropbox, I have years worth of photos I took of places I've been, things I have enjoyed, and I don't mind giving myself artistic permission to draw or paint what I took photos of. I know that there might be some things to be careful of, like a floral arrangement or anything someone else did artistically that I took a photo of. Still I've spent the last few hours downloading several images to my phone that I can use later this month. I had to share, since I was truly surprised by what I found lurking in my photo archive. I don't grow flowers. I would think it weird if someone gave me flowers. However, our family visited the botanical gardens so I have fun photos of flowers and butterflies. Watercolor flower paintings might just happen this month. Plus a fun fog on the lake picture begging me to paint it.

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