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I personally don't give much credit at all to process. I give credit to what I consider to be good finished paintings. If my memory serves, all you get to state is size, medium, your name and maybe the date. If you must post a placard giving qualifiers such as: painted in the dark, painted during a thunderstorm, painted from memory, then you will be judged accordingly. Best of all the portraits done from a photograph while standing in a thunderstorm.
The finished art must stand alone, no qualifiers, no art speak, no additional points given for process. All of what you know, and don't know, must stand without further explanation.
If someone can produce great portraits from photographs, from life or from memory, that's fine, but they have to be great first, without the knowledge of process.
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Mike McCarty
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