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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
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Dear ReNae,
Since I spent most of my life not painting, I was also in a real rush to catch up...and here's what I did when I got the chance:
I copied the Old Masters (please, NOT anyone living today!)- day in and day out for about 2 years.
If you hang out with the likes of Titian, Ingres, Rubens, Veronese, Frans Hals, Vermeer, etc. it sort of soaks in and you're bound to learn some very important lessons. They are, after all, the very BEST painters (and their being dead didn't disqualify them as my greatest teachers either).
Not only did I copy their paintings, I began by copying their drawings. I have posted info. at length about these things elsewhere on this forum.
If I can learn to paint, anybody can. Good luck!
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