✂️ Cut it out! ✂️ (Who needs AI?)

Your ultimate collage resource guide featuring a ton of free, open-source, public domain material AND a video replay to learn digital collage with me! Woohoo!

We are collaging this month in Ritual Lab!

FOUND MAGIC: Storytelling with Collage & Found Poetry kicks off this Sunday, April 13th 12-2:30pm central & runs for the next 3 weeks.

🔮 Discover a unique message from the universe that only you can reveal! Registration ends Saturday.

digital collage i made during yesterday’s mini-workshop (linked below!)

What’s your SOURCE?

Okay, today I have a video tutorial for you and a BUNCH of cool resources (with a special download & supplies list for members below the pink tape), but let’s chat a bit first:

It can be titillating to plug some words into an image generator to see what it spits back at you. BUT HAVE YOU EVEN SPENT HOURS CRUISING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, THO??? This shit will knock you sideways with curiosity and delight.

Like, yes, show me 50,000 cigarette cards. I’ll be here all night.

We humans come from an astonishingly rich history of image creation. And, thanks to the (increasingly-rare) free corners of the internet dedicated to the preservation of this history, we can dip into this richness at will. And by “dip in” I mean: Cut, paste, chop, screw, re-mix, re-imagine, re-contextualize and revitalize works in the public domain!

This is truly an embarrassment of riches no one person could ever possibly mine to exhaustion, so give it your best shot, friends.

For the next 3 week in the FOUND MAGIC Ritual Lab we will play with the wonder of found images and poetry. But even if you’re not joining us in RitLab, I know all of us with web presence in These Strange Times™️ have need for quick “content”, and that drives a lot of folks to AI imagery…sigh… So why not make yer content rad and interesting and GO TO THE SOURCE?? (hint: we are the source)

If AI can scrape the web for the sum total of human creation, we can too.

BUT! Unlike AI companies, we can do it ethically. And this isn’t complicated. What’s okay to borrow, chop and reuse? Either your own work, OR:

BEFRIEND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

A wealth of material we can legally use without permission. 🌈

registration ends this saturday!

Without further ado, here are a zillion links I have saved for harvesting pure magic from the entire history of human creation.

(And if you don’t come up for air, please forgive me):

https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1507

https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/a-search-engine-for-finding-free-public-domain-images-from-world-class-museums.html

https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access

https://www.artic.edu/open-access/open-access-images

https://www.rawpixel.com/category/53/public-domain?filter=all&sort=trending

https://publicdomainreview.org/

https://www.clevelandart.org/open-access

https://public.work/

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

https://www.moma.co.uk/public-domain-images/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain_art

https://archive.org/details/flickrcommons

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

WOOHOO!

Now that you’ve got all these cool resources, you can print them out and cut them up!

OR! You can play with them digitally. Yesterday I gave a free digital collage workshop on the Vision Train using Procreate. Wanna learn with me? Here ya go!

HAVE FUN!

I’ll see a bunch of you this weekend & for everyone else: I’ll be back in your inbox next week with a properly poetic letter & fun creative prompt.

xoxoxo,

🎁 For my workshop members!

Your super-fancy, Lisette-curated public domain image downloads AND your workshop supplies list are below the pink tape!!!

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