tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83712233029804292592024-03-05T06:29:59.965+00:00Sandie Goble's Public Domain BlogHi, I'm Sandie and I decided to start this fab new blog back in 2010 to make my Printable Heaven website more interesting to look at. Along the way no doubt you'll get some insights into new downloadables that are on their way as well as little snippets of my life, troubles and hopefully the good bits too!
Please feel free to comment as you see fit so I don't think I'm alone in the world!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13783684792462227870noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-18347984468903512942017-01-19T13:29:00.001+00:002017-01-19T13:32:04.315+00:00Vintage ad<div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I love vintage ads, so much so I have several on my walls at home. I think it's the nostalgia and the history of them - a snapshot of a time gone by. I came across this one (and plenty more) in an old Canadian publication called the Farmer's Magazine from 1913.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Great isn't it? I might frame this for my kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can see our full range of public domain image DVDs by clicking <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/PDILDVD">here</a>.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-61783150509964568042016-10-19T11:10:00.003+01:002016-10-19T11:10:17.928+01:00New Victorian children public domain DVD<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have very fond memories from when I was young of being in my nan's garden, surrounded by pretty flowers and making daisy chains on her lawn. She had a huge, long garden divided into 3 sections by trellis arches that had climbing roses growing over them. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rambling country house it was not - it was a council house that just happened to have a lovely garden but I have been taken back there whilst gathering pictures for our latest public domain DVD, Victorian children. And, by the way, I wasn't a Victorian child - much younger than that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are over 600 colour images on this DVD that you can use for anything at all, even commercial use is absolutely fine! Here are some of them:-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The DVD features pictures by Helen Allingham, Myles Birket Foster, John Sowerby, Rose Barton, Bessie Collins Pease, Jessie Willcox Smith, Ida Waugh, Maud Humphrey (Humphrey Bogart's mum) and loads more. There are many Victorian chromolithographs including those from Nister/Dutton children's books by artists such as Harriet Bennet and Lizzie Lawson too. Quite a few Christmas images included as well - great for making Christmas cards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use these pictures to make prints, postcards, greetings cards, decoupage, packaging, for mugs, mousemats and promotional items and loads more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click to look now - <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Victorian-Children-with-FREE-%27A-Flower-Book%27-bonus.html">Victorian children</a>.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-79247149481622179302016-10-11T20:32:00.000+01:002016-10-11T20:32:14.248+01:00Gilbert Holliday<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I paid a visit to my favourite little Mencap charity bookshop today. Almost invariably when I go there I come back with something old and interesting (at a bargain price!) so I'm always filled with anticipation when I go. I'm like a child in a sweet shop when it comes to old books!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was no exception.... My best find was a lovely old book called Hunter's Moon which is full of poems and with pictures by Gilbert Holliday (1879-1937). There seems to be a variation in the spelling of his surname by the way - it has two 'l's in Holliday on my book but internet searches show it with just one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book isn't dated although one of my internet searches gives it a date of 1930 although I would have said it's earlier than that but who knows! It's on a hunting theme - not necessarily politically correct but I only look at the pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one's called 'Best of All' and shows this horse in all of its galloping glory - just wonderful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book has 8 colour prints all together and cost me the brilliant price of just £2.... I love that shop! I also managed to buy a 1950s book 'British Romantic Artists' for the princely sum of 50p and a re-print of the Life and Works of Birket Foster, someone who I've been researching in the last couple of weeks so that was a real bonus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those books made me happy and I also made my daughter happy by getting her 'Gone Girl' for £1 - something she's been saying she wanted over the last couple of weeks so I've done good today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shame I didn't find this book before I published our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Horses.html">'Horses' public domain DVD</a> but this one's already jam-packed anyway! If you want lots more out of copyright horse images to use for anything, take a look at our fab Horses DVD <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Horses.html">here</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-30369644241672796342016-09-06T14:43:00.000+01:002016-09-06T14:43:42.889+01:00Public Domain British painting DVDs<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been head down deep in books and art lately - just how I like it! As well as revamping our Picturesque England and Wales series (watch this space), I've also produced 2 volumes of public domain British painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both DVDs include a wide range of images including landscapes, portraits, history and genre painting including artists like Constable, J.M.W. Turner, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney, Watts, William Orpen, Anning-Bell, William Blake, Gainsborough and loads more!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-55454222913491046772016-04-20T11:15:00.000+01:002016-04-20T11:15:32.880+01:00Modern Art - Public Domain DVD (FREE images)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was recently attending an art history class where we covered different artists or styles of art every week. Although I loved the education, almost invariably the paintings left me cold. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sounds odd eh, but then one of the other lovely ladies on the course questioned me as to what kind of art I liked. On answering no to most of the artists or genres that she asked about, I started to question myself on what I actually did like!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see the problem with realist art is that the artist generally knows where they're going with it. If you're painting a dog, once you've done the face, for example, you know you've got to do the legs, the tail etc. etc. It might not always be plain sailing but you know what you've got to do to complete the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This often isn't the case with <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Modern-Art-inc.-Kandinsky%2C-Klee%2C-Munch-%26-Schiele.html">abstract art</a>. Just look at this Kandinsky painting:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This painting (entitled Swinging no.29) comes from within. It's about thoughts and feelings and emotions, it's not a prescriptive way of doing things like painting a dog might be. It's doing what you want to do, when you want to do it and according to the mood you're in at the time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I grant you that the artist would almost certainly have a plan and know where they're going - but that plan is based on emotion and mood and not on what is perhaps the 'normal' way of doing things. All in all it's harder, cleverer and more creative to paint an attractive picture in an abstract way than to paint your archetypal dog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It doesn't have to make sense to the viewer although that perhaps if we can make sense of it, we like it better. Not all minds can make sense of it though which is why some of us love abstract art and some of us will prefer the dog picture.... or no picture at all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Paul Klee picture is more understandable to most of us as it's people, something we all know - although some still won't like the style. Why can't it just be painted in a realist way, many would say. My mind says that realism is boring so I like this - horses for courses! I like this better:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't need to understand, I just like the impression it leaves on me. Would I put the realistic dog on my wall? No. This Kandinsky? Most certainly yes (although I'd prefer the original to a print!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I thank the art class for making me actually think about what I really like. Stuff 17th century art (my 'A'-level subject, yawn yawn) - give me an abstract piece any time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are over 500 fabulous abstract and modern pictures on our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Modern-Art-inc.-Kandinsky%2C-Klee%2C-Munch-%26-Schiele.html">Modern Art public domain DVD</a>. Click on the link for more pictures and see if you agree with me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cicely Mary Barker is a well-known name today for her Flower Fairies although these are perhaps much more human-looking than some of the other offerings from this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />All of the flower children represent a flower and are accompanied by a nice little poem.<br /><br /> The next book in the series was 'Bird Children' from 1912 which is full of somewhat quirkier pictures.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.84px;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />The birds are given the same treatment as the flowers, each bird having a child's face and hands..... This picture even has children's faces in the background flowers. Cute... or maybe a little strange by today's standards!<br /><br />Mother Earth's Children and Butterfly Babies follow in 1914, Mother Earth's children featuring children as vegetables - or vegetables as children, whichever way you want to look at it.....</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.84px;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The last of the series is 'Wild Flower Children', this time illustrated by Janet Laura Scott whose style is a little different from her predecessor but still just as lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you want to see more of these lovely, quirky illustrations, click on the <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Elizabeth-Gordon%27s-Flower-Children-Series.html">link</a> now to see details of the more than 400 illustrations from this series. You can use these images for any purpose, even commercial use, so take a look today. <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Elizabeth-Gordon%27s-Flower-Children-Series.html">Elizabeth Gordon's Flower Children Series.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This forlorn little fellow is by Randolph Caldecott, one of the original pictures from the disc. Cute isn't he!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not all of our cats and dogs are quite as sad as this one - this happier pairing is by Hugo von Hofsten, who also illustrated one of the many Alice in Wonderland early editions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are now pictures on the disc from as early as 1850 right through to the 1920s and beyond so there's plenty for all tastes. This hand-coloured engraving is by Harrison Weir from A Treasury of Pleasure books (1850). What a gorgeous, scruffy little mite he is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see loads more pictures on the website and read about all the artists that feature on the disc so pop over now and take a look - <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Cats-%26-Dogs-%28now-updated%21%29.html">Cats & Dogs public domain images</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a regret of mine that I never studied O-level (as was back then!) history as I know it's then that I would have learnt about the world wars, something I've longed to know more about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting stuck into this one has certainly taught me a few things that I hope I can now retain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This public domain disc features pictures from many aspects of the First World War from military personnel, recruitment posters, ships, planes, wartime pin-ups, sheet music covers through to war-time recipes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As per usual, you can re-use and republish any of the pictures in any way you like as the copyright has now expired. Your own use, commercial use or educational use - all are absolutely fine!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love posters, especially posters with words - plenty of them here! This one makes me smile:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's over 600 images on this DVD - I've loved every minute of compiling it so please swing by the website and have a good look - loads more pictures on there. Remember, you can use them in any way you like so take a look now - <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-World-War-I-Pictures.html">World War I pictures</a>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-40454437249650670732015-11-13T14:11:00.001+00:002015-11-13T14:20:51.082+00:00Titanic<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've escaped from the norm with my latest public domain DVD - rather than book illustrations I've been immersed in photos, postcards, cigarette cards and a great deal of history to put together this Titanic collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This is a Titanic cigarette card (reduced size to that on the DVD). I had to buy the whole set of 48 from Ebay to get this card! Both the front and back of the card are included on the DVD and there is also another Titanic card as well as one of its sister ship Olympic and of the Lusitania.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Titanic story has been very much romanticised today, perhaps a great deal due to the most recent Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet film, but also because the grandeur and opulence of the First Class areas of the steamer sit in stark contrast to the horror of the events of that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That hasn't been lost on me when putting together this collection, indeed my thoughts have been very sombre when the terrifying events have unfolded through the sorting of photos and when I have inevitably got lost in reading exactly what happened on the night of 14/15th April 1912.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I won't recount it all here as you can easily Google that one, but I have read some interesting things in my research that you may not know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Titanic - sounds pretty big doesn't it? Not so, it was ridiculously small compared with modern cruise ships. I just found this photo on the internet to demonstrate this (it's not included on the DVD).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Costa Concordia, which sank in 2012 (100 years after the Titanic!), was more than twice the gross tonnage of the Titanic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is also clear from what I have read that not all images that claim to be the Titanic actually are! Its sister ship the RMS Olympic was practically identical so pictures were taken of it after the the disaster which were purported to be the Titanic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Olympic had its maiden voyage before the Titanic in 1911 and then went on to have a relatively long and illustrious career, finally being taken out of service in 1935. It was therefore easy to take pictures of the Olympic and 'pretend' that they're of the Titanic, no doubt for financial gain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture has been used on the front of at least two Titanic books I've seen......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've read a very interesting discussion online that claims this is actually the Olympic and not the Titanic at all. This one is on our DVD - I don't know which ship it is, I'm no expert!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've also read quite a lot about the 'unsinkable' Margaret Molly Brown who featured in the 1997 film, played by Kathy Bates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A very interesting character and someone who was perhaps looked down on by other First Class passengers as she represented 'new' money.... or was that just in the film?! She was certainly a people's person, did a lot of charitable work and was not an upper class snob!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I should probably stop rambling and talk about the DVD.... There are loads of black and white photos on it including Captain Smith of the Titanic (victim), Bruce Ismay who was managing director of the White Star Line (survived), Mr and Mrs Isador Straus (who owned Macy's Dept store in New York (victims), Frederick Fleet (ship's lookout and survivor) and loads more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are Titanic postcards in colour, more cigarette cards, ephemera & posters, a couple of poems, sheet music in colour written about the disaster, newspaper reports from the time, cartoons of the time and other little bits and pieces that are interesting, including this picture by Howard Chandler Christy from 1910.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Funny, I used this one in a cardmaking set on the website a while back, giving the picture the title 'Almost Titanic'. It's nearly there (if you use your imagination!) isn't it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can look at the DVD on our website at <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Titanic-Scrapbook.html">www.printableheaven.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But anyway.... Archibald Thorburn was a prolific Scottish bird artist and animal painter who lived from 1860 until his death in 1935. Archibald was born in Midlothian, the fifth son of Robert Thorburn (1818-1885) who was portrait miniaturist to Queen Victoria. His first education was at Dalkeith and in Edinburgh, after which he was sent to the newly founded St John's Wood School of Art in London. His stay there was only brief, since on the death of his father he sought the guidance of Joseph Wolf. It was his commission in 1887 to illustrate Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Isles, for which he painted some 268 watercolours, that established his reputation. He illustrated numerous sporting and natural history books, including his own. He taught Otto Murray Dixon and Philip Rickman (both in Nature in Art's collection), and he encouraged the young Donald Watson when he came to visit him in Dumfries and Galloway. Thorburn was friends of other eminent bird illustrators including George Edward Lodge and John Guille Millais with whom he collaborated on a number of works including: Natural History of British Feeding Ducks; British Diving Ducks and British Game Birds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His grave is at St John the Baptist church in Busbridge, Godalming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These pictures are just 4 of 522 images that are included on our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-British-Birds.html" target="_blank">British Birds</a> public domain DVD</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">All of the illustrations on our DVD are by four renowned bird artists - Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), John Keulemans (1842-1912), Henrik Grönvold (1858-1940) and Joseph Smit (1836-1929). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15.8079996109009px;">All of the 522 great quality images are out of copyright which means that you can do what you like with them! Make prints, card-making embellishments, calenders, mousemats, fridge magnets, book covers, mugs and so much more! Make items to sell for yourself, for charity fund-raising, school or church fund-raising with no restrictions. Here's that link again... <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-British-Birds.html" target="_blank">522 Public Domain British Birds Images</a></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-72256794582758160362015-03-10T10:58:00.001+00:002015-03-10T12:08:43.596+00:00Art Nouveau Stained Glass Windows with Mackintosh-style designs and FREE pictures<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Craft supplies and parcels have filled my time lately and I've been sadly parted with the beautiful images of the past that I so love - until now anyway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last few weeks I've managed again to go digging in old books where I'm always delighted to find gorgeous, usable images that take me back in time whilst I work on bringing them back into the present day where they can be used and enjoyed once more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These images definitely won't disappoint - sumptuous watercolour images of stained glass windows from the Art Nouveau period. Many of them are in Mackintosh style which is so 'in' at the moment. Take a look.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are just 3 of 460 gorgeous stained glass elements that appear on our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Art-Nouveau-Stained-Glass-Designs.html" target="_blank">Art Nouveau Stained Glass Designs</a> public domain DVD. You'll be able to take any of the images on our DVD and make them into any product you like, either for personal use or for sale. Yes, for sale - COMMERCIAL USE IS FINE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just click on the link and you will see loads more examples of all the images on this disc - just think of what you could make with these fantastic images!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you missed it here's the link again - <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/PDIL-DVD-%252d-Art-Nouveau-Stained-Glass-Designs.html" target="_blank">Out of Copyright Art Nouveau Stained Glass Designs</a> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-34508768453875937302014-10-26T12:37:00.002+00:002014-10-26T12:37:25.964+00:00A return to glorious Art Nouveau (FREE picture)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've finally had a bit of a slow-down in the orders for the Debbi Moore Santa Claus box (not that I'm complaining!) so I'm actually able to turn my mind back to Art Nouveau again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the image that features on the box image of our Art Nouveau DVD. This is by Paul Berthon who lived from 1872-1909. No age, is it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In honour of my little trip into Art Nouveau, I've put together an offer for both this DVD and our Art Deco fashion disc for just £9.99. Fabulous images, love 'em! You can see our offer <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/DVD-%252d-Art-Deco-Fashion-with-FREE-Art-Nouveau-Posters.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There I was on a cheeky little Art Nouveau trip when Debbi Moore's Santa Claus Inspiration in a Box suddenly landed on us. Much as I love walking the art history trail, stuffing envelopes with Debbi Moore's tasty offering has got in the way!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I go back to Art Nouveau, just a little bit about this lovely craft tidbit first....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lovely product - don't know how she manages to do it so cheaply! Lovely glossy magazine complete with TWO CDs - all the stuff to print on one whilst the other contains project videos so you can see exactly how to create all the projects. The magazine already contains all the papers you need to create the cards, the CD gives you all the stuff again to print as many times as you want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You also get metallic card, additional A4 papers, ribbons and gems, die-cut toppers and tissue paper, all for just £9.99!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've sold so many of these it's unbelievable! But we knew we would.... the Shabby Chic Cottage Garden Inspiration in a Box has already been a best-selling product so we knew the Santa one would be a winner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sad thing is, this one is a Limited Edition and once our stock's gone, that will be it. Shame, but that means you've just gotta get a move on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/CD-%252d-Debbi-Moore-%252d-Santa-Claus-Inspiration-in-a-Box.html" target="_blank">here</a> to secure yours!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-3134110657205213902014-10-14T10:49:00.003+01:002014-10-14T10:49:40.339+01:00Get your business head on (FREE picture of course!)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first started our original craft business (Mad about Cards) in 2002, I bought lots of things that I would use myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd made lots of cards using pom-poms and pipe-cleaners which had always sold very well; caterpillar cards made with yellow and green pom-poms (very 'Hungry Caterpillar' in style!) and fairies using white pipe-cleaners for legs and arms, a white pom-pom for the head and a dress made of what we called sparkle paper. These were tried and tested designs that I'd always sold a lot of at craft fairs and to friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, when we started selling craft supplies, the pom-poms and pipe-cleaners, to me at least, were essential stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I discovered though, was that these things aren't essential stock to most other people - they didn't sell and we ended up putting most of the colours in the first sale that we had.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something I never wanted to sell was peel-off stickers. Why? Because I didn't like them. Rubber stamps were in the same category - I wasn't a stamper so I wasn't keen to stock them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you're in business you must put your personal preferences to one side and go with what sells. You won't necessarily know what sells to start with but you dabble, try something out and see if it works. And if you get a bite, you go deeper into that area until you, perhaps, reach a saturation point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ended up with hundreds and hundreds of designs and colours of peel-offs and masses of rubber stamps and stamping equipment at MAC, we sold loads of the things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The point here is probably obvious - don't think about yourself and what you like when you want to make money out of something, think about your market and who you can be selling to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our public domain discs each contain hundreds of pictures that you can take and use for anything. I compile each one on a theme so you'll know, ball-park at least, what you'll be getting! Some pictures I love, some I like but I can't think of a use for them perhaps, some I might even not like but I could see how they would be useful. Not everyone likes the same thing, as the pom-pom and pipe-cleaner examples proves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT, I know they are worth so much in terms of what you can make and sell using those pictures. As well as the obvious things such as card-making items, calendars, prints etc., I've been examining some of the shabby chic things in the shops lately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The things that particularly come to mind are signs and clocks with an altered art/collage-type background - these look amazing and would be so easy to put together with a few basic graphics program skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, enough rambling. Well, almost..... Did you know that it's a Jules Chéret poster that appears in the girls' apartment in Friends?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, I've spotted more </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chéret posters in other apartments whilst watching the programme too. His stuff I love!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-80462010250494948512014-10-11T22:03:00.002+01:002014-10-11T22:03:48.240+01:00British Art Nouveau with FREE Aubrey Beardsley picture<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I said yesterday, Art Nouveau isn't just about French Art Nouveau, which is what would spring to mind for most people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">British Art Nouveau was a lot less ornate - it was 'new art' because it was different from what had come before. Art had perhaps always been heavy oil paintings with lots of dark colours before the rise of movements such as Impressionism - Art Nouveau was yet another new style which was modern, fresh and exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a big fan of Aubrey Beardsley's work although there isn't a great deal of it, especially not in colour, as he died at the very young age of just 25 of TB.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I had a room with yellow accents, this would be straight in a frame and up on the wall - shame! Actually, my study is just plain white with a wood floor - I could do it.... must go, something to do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you love Art Nouveau you'd be mad not to take a look at our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/DVD-%252d-Posters-of-the-Art-Nouveau-Period.html">Art Nouveau public domain DVD</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-87600539103837399412014-10-10T22:30:00.001+01:002014-10-10T23:52:27.805+01:00Art Nouveau - FREE uncompressed picture included<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been reading the marketing book again which inspired me to completely re-write our website blurb on our Art Nouveau DVD. It definitely sounds far more inspirational now although I'm sure it will get more tweaks yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bad thing about it is that I'd previously taken time to write quite a lot about Art Nouveau, but that's now all gone in favour of - well, more dynamic marketing-type speak now! If you want to read our new blurb, you can take a look <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/DVD-%252d-Posters-of-the-Art-Nouveau-Period.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can guess what's coming.... shame to waste it so here it is in all its glory!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art, especially in the decorative arts, that was most popular from around 1890 through to the outbreak of World War I. The name 'Art Nouveau' is French for 'new art', also known as Modernisme in Spain, Jugendstil in Germany (German for 'youth style' or the 'style of youth'), Modern in Russia and Secession in Austria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The evolution of the poster was due to the development of printing techniques that allowed for cheap mass production and printing, including notably the technique of lithography which was soon followed by chromolithography, which allowed for mass editions of posters in vibrant colours to be printed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the 1890s the technique had spread throughout Europe. Jules Chéret is considered to be the father of the Art Nouveau advertising poster. He is said to have introduced 'sex' in advertising or, at least, to have exploited the female image as an advertising ploy. In contrast to the often muted colours representing the seedier side of Paris night-life painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, Chéret's bright colours and laughing feminine figures brought a new conception of art as being of service to advertising (a bit like Simon Cowell using the TV to sell records!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Posters soon transformed the thoroughfares of Paris into the art galleries of the streets. Their commercial success was such that some of the artists were in great demand and theatre stars personally selected their own favourite artist to do the poster for their upcoming performance. The popularity of poster art was such that in 1884 a major exhibition was held in Paris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the 1890s, poster art had spread to other parts of Europe as well as in Paris, advertising everything from the theatre, actresses and the performing arts through to bicycles and bullfights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I probably see as the epitome of Art Nouveau are the posters of Alphons Mucha, who I wrote about a day or two ago. His work is extremely ornate and detailed although his colours are perhaps more muted than Chéret's happy, dancing ladies. Art Nouveau was a lot less ornate in both the UK and US, Aubrey Beardsley and Dudley Hardy leading the way here, whilst Edward Penfield was the prime Art Nouveau artist in America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So many names and lovely pictures - hard to choose which one to show but I've settled on a Chéret. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.8400001525879px;">By the way, this is an example of the quality of the images on our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/DVD-%252d-Posters-of-the-Art-Nouveau-Period.html">Art Nouveau </a>DVD - another 249 on there! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've read the 'about me' bit on this blog (which most of you probably haven't), I stumbled across public domain completely by accident. Together with my sisters I'd been clearing out my step-dad's flat when he was going into a rest-home. My sister pulled a tatty book out of a drawer - my parents probably considered it wasn't in good enough condition to put on the bookshelf but my mum, bless her, never threw anything away so in the drawer it remained. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being the 'arty' one, my sister gave the book to me. It contained lots of colour pictures of Art Nouveau posters, and earlier ones too. The book itself isn't that old (I still have it), it's only from the 60s but we were doing up our garage as a work-room at the time and I quite fancied having some of the pictures on the wall. But, and it's something I probably get from my mother, I didn't want to break up the book to get the pictures so I looked on the internet to see if I could find the same pictures to print and frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somehow, and I don't recall how, I stumbled into public domain and all it has to offer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one of the pictures from the book - love it! Which leads me to the other point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charles Gesmar, who created this poster, died in 1928 - great! Perhaps unfortunate for him as he was no great age at all, but from a public domain point of view, perfect! The poster itself is out of copyright BUT I haven't got the original poster, I just have a picture of it in a book. To get it into that book, someone had to take a picture of it and, by doing that, a new copyright is created.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each time any one of us takes a picture, that picture is copyrighted to ourselves. We don't have to register it or acknowledge it in any way, it just is. In the same way, if you take a picture of a picture, your photo creates a new copyright - and that copyright does not expire until you have been dead for 70 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could talk here about perpetual copyright but I'll spare you that one.... for now anyway!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, if you went out and brought a brand new book about Mucha, who I was talking about yesterday, you can't just copy the pictures in the book and use them for yourself because you know that Mucha's works are out of copyright - damn! Sorry about that - if you read yesterday's post and your brain-cells started to tick over on PD, this one will burst the bubble!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pictures in books like this have often been purchased under licence by image libraries such as Bridgeman, amongst others. Under licence to the publishers, there's a copyright notice slapped on the book - you can't do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which leads me to the point I was originally heading for.... You may have heard about the case of Bridgeman v. Corel - well, you will have done if you read yesterday's post anyway. I'll sum it up really quickly from the top of my head as I know if I go and read it all again, I'll be gone for hours.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bridgeman are an image library, they license out images to use in books, on TV, on retail items such as notebooks, bookmarks etc etc etc. Corel is a software corporation - they produce the lovely graphics program I use (amongst other things), CorelDraw (wouldn't be without it!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corel produced some software or other that contained lots of paintings from the old masters. Bridgeman said 'hang on a minute, all of those paintings are from our website, you must have got them from us - you can't do that, it's a breach of copyright. We've had these paintings photographed (or bought them from someone who had), so there's a new copyright and we're going to sue you.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that they did. Corel had apparently bought the images from another company which has since (not surprisingly) been dissolved. But there was no doubt where this company had got the images from. The images on Bridgeman were the kind where you hovered over and could see the large uncompressed version. The company had managed to bypass this (so-called) security feature (it's not difficult!) and copied the pictures, then selling them onto Corel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To cut an extremely long story short, the outcome was a ruling that taking a true picture of a flat 2-dimensional image DOES NOT create a new copyright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aha, you say - so that means I can copy the book, I hear you say.... Not so. For a start, that case was in the US - here in the UK the law hasn't changed. Many here (and no doubt there), think it's a ridiculous ruling and would never be adopted in UK law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And another point is that this case was the ruling in one state only, as far as I know it hasn't been adopted into law and has yet to be challenged. It's persuasive but not the be all and end all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Books and art led me there (although I have previously studied contract law at college so I have a head start), so the subject of copyright when it comes to artwork brings both of my passions together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did mean to talk about Art Nouveau a bit more but I'd be here all day then - another day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see some for yourself on our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/DVD-%252d-Posters-of-the-Art-Nouveau-Period.html">Art Nouveau posters</a> DVD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first released our Art Nouveau public domain image DVD, a customer emailed me asking if I was sure the work of Alphons Mucha was in the public domain. Reason? Because a friend of hers, she said, was buying Mucha images from some site-or-other therefore how could they be in the public domain when she still had to pay for them?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll just show one here so we know what we're talking about....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one, probably not the best example, is a menu cover. Mucha (pronounced Mooka) produced some wonderful work which is the epitome of French Art Nouveau and is most people's idea of what Art Nouveau looks like (although it's in many other forms, but I digress!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mucha, who was Czech-born in 1860 and worked in France, died in 1939 which is conveniently, in the matter of public domain works, more than 70 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now there are lots of in and outs of copyright law, many of which throw works unexpectedly into the public domain when you wouldn't think it would be the case - but in the main copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the author/artist. For some countries it's less but you're safest if you apply 70 years to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what was our customer talking about then? Quite simply, just because a work is in the public domain, it doesn't mean that you have access to it does it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't have a picture of it, then there's nothing you can do about it. Might as well be in a vault. And the subject of having a picture of it is another one entirely ..... a photograph of something creates a new copyright which belongs to the photographer rather than the producer of the artwork. If you read the case of Bridgeman v. Corel Corporation you may not think this is the case but bear in mind this is US law, not UK - and the outcome in one state only, yet to be challenged elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's off the point slightly but it should be borne in mind nonetheless...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back to the proper point. There are many image libraries out there that sell images - they are in the business of making money from images whether or not they are out of copyright or not. If the pictures are still in copyright, they are no doubt paying a share to the copyright owner. If not, they are keeping the proceeds for themselves. Nothing wrong with that - they have it, you want it, you pay money to get it.... even if it's out of copyright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can take time and effort to track down a suitable-quality image for yourself, or just pay the money to the nice image-library man and get it now. It's as simple as that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the question as to whether I'm sure Mucha images are out of copyright or not is yes of course I'm sure - the images on our DVD are taken from old books and publications that I KNOW are in the public domain and can therefore be used quite legitimately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organisations like Dover Publications that sell you images like this manage to get round it by selling to you under license - meaning that they can put restrictions on the use that you put them to simply because they say so, even if the images themselves are in the public domain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you like Mucha and other images from the Art Nouveau period, take a look at our <a href="http://www.printableheaven.com/products/DVD-%252d-Posters-of-the-Art-Nouveau-Period.html">Posters of the Art Nouveau Period</a> DVD now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had plenty of discussion beforehand to decide whether it should be in the form of a series of card kits but finally decided that a DVD was best. That way we could include different colour choices for the same items together with matching backgrounds etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the snowman and robin are really cute - and really easy to fold....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I'll be more together from tomorrow onwards when both of my children are back at school, well I hope so anyway..... although I have decided that my job is far too sedentary and I should walk every day for at least half an hour to the post office. And pick blackberries.... and go swimming. More digressions from Origami Christmas methinks....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my 'sidetrack' days led me into looking at American history as I fancied putting together a product for another site that I produce for, Teachers Pay Teachers (<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/">www.teacherspayteachers.com</a>). This is a site where teachers (and publishers) upload products they've made that will assist with lessons and school work - a way to not 'waste' the lesson-plan you've worked on, but to share it with other teachers in order to make a little extra.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got quite a lot on there, lots of discs and graphics collections (<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sandie-Printable-Heaven">http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sandie-Printable-Heaven</a>) including the one I put on yesterday - A Timeline of American History.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't something that I think will make it onto Printable Heaven as it's not really the right kind of market for it but I'm hoping it will do well on TPT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in the true spirit of vintage, all the pictures included in the collection (all 85 of them!) come from an out of copyright American History children's book. Here are just 3 of them (lots of Brownie points if you can name the event depicted!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These pictures are from another Walter Tittle illustrated book called 'Colonial Holidays' - and stunning they are too! It would have been lovely if perhaps the little girl pictured here had turned out to be this lady but having done the maths, unfortunately it couldn't be - this book is from 1910 and the lady in question only died a couple of years ago at the age of 96.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shame - would have been a lovely family mystery solved wouldn't it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's worth noting for our UK readers that these pictures won't be out of copyright until 2016, they are already out of copyright in the US.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-70975869375532414032014-08-04T11:03:00.003+01:002014-08-04T11:03:41.358+01:00First World War Centenary 4th August 2014<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 o'clock tonight marks the start of Britain's involvement in the First World War, a war that would see the deaths of 9 million combatants, making it one of the deadliest wars in history.</span><br />
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Krakow was great as usual (we went last year), plenty of flavoured vodka consumed and lovely food eaten - great up until the point that our friend discovered he'd lost his wallet or, perhaps, had it stolen. That kinda put a damper on the whole thing but at least it was on the last day so it wasn't all spoilt!<br />
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Last year we went to Auschwitz and this year to Schindler's factory, both sad reminders of times past. Now I'm somewhat back to reality having added a few new products to the website this morning (Christmas ones), I've done a few outgoing orders and now I'm about to get stuck back into designs for our forthcoming Origami Christmas CD.... it's a labour of love!<br />
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Last year I think I blogged with a few pictures of picturesque Poland after our Krakow trip. Heaven forbid I repeat myself, so here's some pictures of Polish dancing instead.... and this isn't how we looked after all that beautiful Polish vodka by the way (or is it?!).<br />
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As many of you will be off on your summer holidays soon, I thought I'd post some pictures of some of the places might be likely to go, starting with Venice.<br />
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Bortoluzzi, Millo (1868-1933) - Bible of St. Mark 1898 - St. Marks Venice</div>
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East, Alfred (1849-1913) - The Studio 1911 - Evening glow Venice</div>
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Whistler, James (1834-1903) - Whistler as I knew him 1904 - Black & Gold, Venice</div>
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We're off to Krakow tomorrow for a few days. I'll see what Polish pictures I can find when I get back, if any, and put them up here. If I can't find any pictures of scenery, I'll see if I can find some of vodka as there's plenty of that in Krakow and I may partake just a little.....</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371223302980429259.post-24311693814096476842014-03-30T18:51:00.000+01:002014-03-30T18:51:06.993+01:00Biscuits<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't blogged for a few weeks as we moved house and that has taken up most of my time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have moved to a house that has needed so much doing to it that it tends to fill my thoughts constantly. Things were broken, not working or unusable and that's without the decorating.... every room needs a complete makeover.... I could talk about it for hours but I fear I'd bore you all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of that, here are some nice illustrations of crackers and biscuits from a manufacturer called Dozier-Weyl from 1881. I'd like to do something with them but I really can't think what at the moment!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll put some more of them on the public domain section of our Pinterest board shortly. The public domain board on there is private so you'll need to start following us and we'll send you an invitation to the public domain board after that - http://www.pinterest.com/printableheaven/</span><br />
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