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Marvin,
I think you discount what the brain can do, regardless of what it can presently see.
If I am given an image of a person to view (a quality photograph) I think it is possible to draw conclusions and make decisions based on previously processed information. And therefore interject information into the result that exists no where else but from your brain.
If I go to a museum (and I have the ability to discern what is quality, not a small thing) and I stare long and hard at quality, I believe that I can take that image and use it to inform my painting. My photograph then provides me the road map, my brain then formulates a response based on my brains composite of what it believes to be desirable.
This to me doesn't seem all that far fetched. You say that when you paint from a photograph your previous life paintings inform your decisions. Isn't this just a cousin to that?
I know there are quality paintings being produced by people that are each taking different paths.
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Mike McCarty
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