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So, anyway, Geri -- you still there?
You're free to use any image you want for practice or copy work -- even Bill Gates' digital images. (You can tear those tags off the mattresses too.) Just be sure that if the image is the subject of copyright (as Bill Gates' would be), you don't try to sell or otherwise benefit financially or commercially from your copy work, without permission of the copyright owner. Even if there isn't a copyright issue, and even if you did actually draw or paint the copy (which gives you copyright in your work), the right/safe thing to do is to always identify the copy as such (usually by signing, for example, "Sweeney, after Rembrandt". (Age before beauty, you understand.)
Copy away, and good luck.
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