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Creative Arts: Creative Arts Home

This guide encompasses Visual Communication and Studio Arts

Online Museums and Art Galleries

Where to go to find images

Be aware that using images that are covered by copyright restrictions for business purposes may lead to large legal and financial headaches.  It is a good habit to get into using sites which are 'Creative Commons' where the copyright restrictions either do not exist or are very lenient.  The Green Creative Commons site is the best place to start - but also have a look immediately beneath it at some of the fact sheets you can download from their site. As always, you should acknowledge your source in some kind of a bibliography - that is where you got your image from.

Go to the shelves & have a look or use the library’s catalogue (DESTINY) to search for specific topics  

Clothes Fashion 391 and 741.6
General Arts of countries e.g. Asian, Western & General Encyclopedias of Art 700’s
Civic & Landscape Art 710’s
Architecture 720’s
Plastic Arts: Sculpture 730’s
Drawing Skills & Decorative Art - including fashion, furniture, manga, airbrushing  740’s
Painting & Paintings – including books on individual painters & movements 750’s
Graphic Arts; Printmaking & Prints 760’s
Photography & Photographs 770’s

Click on these sites to be taken to great images which you can use with little or no attributions.