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Old 12-09-2001, 02:28 PM   #10
Karin Wells Karin Wells is offline
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I agree that it is not unethical or illegal to copy anothers work for study purposes....as long as you have the permission the living artist and/or never intend to show it or profit financially from it.

It is OK to copy a Masterwork when the artist is long dead and there are no copyright issues.

I have seen many artists copy from the same work and the differences that I can see in the finished products have more to do with the talent, skill and the degree to which the student has mastered his/her craft.

I'm not sure how to say this but I think that when most artists (me included) paint from photos our work seldom looks like the photograph - even if we wanted it to - because we, quite frankly, don't have the mastery of our craft to do that.

In a nutshell: Those of us who work from photographs, couldn't "paint like a photograph" if we tried. ....but who's trying?
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