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Oh Sharon, thanks so much for your encouragement and unfailing good advice. I have come to so many realizations over the last year and a half about this painting stuff. I am drawing a little bit from life (it's hard to find agreeable models and I do get tired of myself!) and I am painting quite a lot of still lifes and landscapes. I would never dream of taking a photo of the still lifes and painting from it, that would be so difficult... And the landscapes, although they are from photos, I still find myself hiking back to the locations at the same time of day to look at it again and again, as the photos all lie, lie, lie.
So the still lives and landscapes have taught me a lot about painting portraits. And the copying of a photo: the trees have to be tree-ish and that can only come from me; the pears have to be pear-ish and that can only come from me. Yep, the old grouch is learning!
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