I have had a skeleton idea rattling about my head for some time now and it included the southwest form I recently completed and some pyro. I turned the form and had basic ideas (including an ascending spiral!) before seeing her work. I want to mimic some of the paleolithic art similar to that found in Lascaux, France. I am especially drawn to the stylized horse and bison images. My problem now is I have since seen some of the work by Molly Winton and this is exactly what I want to reproduce. Of course, since seeing her work, I am no doubt influenced a fair bit by it, but not entirely. Now I cannot get these designs out of my head and have tried in vain to come up with a original reproduction (oxymoron) using similar images and layout, but can't do it. Is this plagiarism, unethical or just cheesy to reproduce works similar to hers using ancient (uncopywrited) images as models when her influence will be clearly obvious?
I had in mind a design similar to the one pictured below and it may emerge remarkably similar. Where are the limits here? I do not sell any of my work.