There's a secret source to a lot of the images I use when blogging -- well, maybe not that secret, as The Graphics Fairy gets a lot of hits. But secret or not, The Graphics Fairy blog is where I get a lot of images, and I am full of gratitude and joy that the site exists.As its name suggests, the site is dedicated to sharing clip art, illustrations and ephemera from bygone days. As such, the images are in public domain. Theoretically, I could find them without help from a fairy. I mean, isn't Google magic? Yet, in practice, I've found that finding truly useable clip art is difficult, because there is so much dreck to wade through. The Graphics Fairy does a lot of the slogging for the follower.
Items clearly connected to a specific fairy tale are not in abundance, but why should they be? It's not a fairy tale site. I find that this doesn't matter one bit. The site is well organized and seeing the pretty pictures provided helps spur my creativity in using and editing graphics on Picnik.
The crown image took me about 3 minutes, from locating it on The Graphics Fairy to using the vignette process on it in Picnik, to posting it here.
Thanks, Graphics Fairy!
2 comments:
I actually had no idea - thank you for sharing this link!
When exploring your website, I followed the link to the Graphics Fairy, as you had mentioned in class, where you get the artwork you post on your site. When I think of fairy tale images, my thoughts drift back to the cute Disney Tinkerbell and adorable little imaginated characters that couldn’t ever be hurt or age like we do. It boggles my mind that these same tales were originally adult gossip and the gutsy, detailed paintings you post are fairy tale images. Looking at the picture site, I see a different time and era; one where racy stories went further than “happily ever after…”. Those pictures open up an alternate world that shows a realistic view that puts things into a perspective of what if and what could be. Thank you for the variety you add to your site and opening up our imaginations by extending what we think we know about fairy tales.
-Ashley M
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