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It isn't my purpose to justify what I do. I'm just trying to educate whoever here is interested in profiting from my years of knowledge. I have spent my entire life training myself to be the artist I want to be. I've been teaching others for over thirty years.
During that time I've used a wide variety of approaches including working from imagination, from photos and from life. In my experience, training artists is most effectively achieved by working from live models, Not something I came up with by the way. This approach is rooted in the methodology of the XIX Century French Academy which had evolved over previous centuries.
If going to museums and looking at old master paintings was the way to do great paintings then everyone who visits the Met would be a great artist. To anyone who wants to reinvent this particular wheel, all I can say is, good luck.
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