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Location: Great Neck, NY
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Sharon, you hit the nail on the head. Copying what's in front of you will get you, at best, a photographic likeness; regardless of whether you work from life or photos. Great painters, on the other hand, know how to manipulate the information before them to create the illusion of reality on a flat surface.
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