I often get asked where I get my ideas for subject areas for the public domain products I sell on eBay. Questions I always get asked when I show them what I’m selling are: Where do you get all this stuff from? How on earth did the idea for that come to you? You must [...]

A few post back, I was talking about online sources of vintage images. A great thing about searching for these images is that when searching, you end up going off on all sorts of wonderful tangents and making new discoveries. This weekend I had been researching historic, ornamental alphabets and was exploring the possibility of [...]

I spoke in my last post about creating images to promote the sale of digital products online. If you are selling e-books, images templates or any digital media on cd’s which you produce yourself or you are selling digital downloads, you need a graphic ‘representation’ of your product. Is this misleading? There is a school [...]

If you are selling public domain / information products on eBay (or anywhere online) it is particularly important that your listing is attractive and appealing as possible. Often an information product is intangible – it could just be a digital download or a CD in a plastic sleeve. This is why you need attractive graphics [...]

Sir William Russell Flint, best known for his watercolour treatments of the female form was the Artist Laureate to Queen Victoria towards the close of her reign. It is rather sad that, whilst in his day he was well known and highly regarded; his work today is largely unknown. You can see the influence of [...]

I’ve hinted in previous posts about revealing some ways that you can make some cash from public domain images. If you’ve clicked thru on any of my ‘see more’ links on my posts you may have already seen that there are opportunities to earn money on eBay with public domain products which you can easily [...]

I wanted to share some illustrations with you today from one of my all time favourite books. First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic today .Its inspiration came from the pioneering architect and designer Owen Jones. His observations of decorative art on his extensive travels in Europe and the Near [...]

One of the biggest image hosting sites on the web is Flickr. You can find an image of absolutely anything on here and the interesting part is, there are literally 1000′s of public domain images on there. So, how can you go about finding these images? One simple way- type ‘public domain’ into the search [...]

There are number of ways that you can obtain public domain photographs and illustrations on the internet – unfortunately, none of them are blindingly obvious or easy to find for the novice. One excellent source is in fact one of the largest and most popular sites on the web….Wikipedia. Specifically, the section of Wiki you [...]

These rare and stunning 19th cenury volumes, illustrating the beauty of Gothic architectural ornament, suceed overwhelmingly in the authors ambitions to present “such a number of examples of foliage and other ornamental details of the different styles” of English Architecture,” as clearly to elucidate the characteristic features peculiar to each period, and drawn sufficiently large [...]