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I think you two both have made your points well. I've read both sides and still have not changed my opinion. As we know, it's far easier to maintain an existing opinion than adopt a new one.
In sight size painting, I set up props or people or both and light them. My canvas gets the same light source as my people or props. I paint until my oil painting looks like the set-up. Painters and non-painters find it great fun to see both side-by-side because both look the same. The colors and values and intensity and edges are the same in the painting as in the set-up. Viewers may say, "I like the light etc." (in the painting) but only because the light was there on the subject and I simply copied it direct from the subject.
This work was 42 X 72" and took all my studios width to do. I painted it from 19' away, if you will. The shine on the saddles, the dullness of the rugs and everything else was there to observe and replicate. It was done before digital cameras where I could shoot both subject and painting, side by side. I mean to post one of those in the future to show how much the subject looks like the painting. I have painted precisely the colors I have seen for years. Having done it, I know it can be done.
It is how artists capture the shine of satin, reflected light, and transparent glass. Artists before 1500 A.D. did not achieve this very often. Yet since then there are thousands of such examples.
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