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Thank you for the wonderful links! I read some of them, but bookmarked them later to go back to as it is a lot to absorb. And thank you for the idea of painting an 'Old Masters'. I bought a book on this technique several months ago. I am starting a portrait of a young lady in the next few weeks; I'm going to try one of the techniques on her portrait.
After looking at all the different types of art I could do, I decided on portraiture because it is the most challenging and I believe the most rewarding. You portrait artists are amazing! You have to be able paint sky, water, plants, vases, material, trees, chairs, buildings, tiles, carpet, beautiful muted backgrounds, animals, etc.. all better than any landscape artist, wildlife artist or realist, AND you have to be able to take the most complex living things on the planet and paint them with their myriad personalities and character traits AND you have to make eyes look like eyes and ears look like ears and flesh not only look like flesh, but look alive. Not to mention the innate ability to glean your client
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