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Subject: What is considered an 'original'?

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CSessarego
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08/22/2009 12:22 PM Alert 
Can someone please help me with this? Don't most artists use reference photos, etc.? I really need some enlightenment on this? Can you create an 'original' piece of artwork if you use many different references to create a piece. Say you find a photo of an unknown person, a photo of a yacht and a commercial ad for a bottled drink... then you create a painting of the person in same position, put them in different clothes with different colored hair, etc. on a similar yacht holding a bottle using your own expression of background, layout and color palette . Would this be an considered as a 'original' if you used others photos as references? I get very confused as to what is considered an original and what is not. If submitting this for a art contest and asked to show any reference photos you used, would this be considered a 'original'? I would very much love it if someone can explain this to me.
Corinne Sessarego
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