Legal?

[Mary Sparrow]

Thanks to so much fabulous advice here, I understand more than ever the value of a good resource photo.

I'm wanting to update my website and get some of the old things OFF. I am also wanting to practice, practice, practice, when I am not working on a commission.

I have been doing searches on the internet of portrait photography to study the lighting etc. and every now and again, I come across a photo that I have an urge to paint. Is it wrong to print that out and paint it? And, what if I end up really really liking this and would like to use it as a sample work? Not to sell and profit from it, however, I guess indirectly I would profit from it. Is that illegal? If so, I won't even go there.

Would anyone be interested in starting an image resource section? They have one at Wet Canvas but the portrait images are very lacking.