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Thanks Virgil, I believe I understand what you are saying, and I don't think we are very far apart on this issue. Although I continue to work from photo's I take in my studio, I much prefer to work directly with models or from nature. I frankly do not enjoy the process of painting from a traced image for exactly the same reasons you have stated. In many ways it has become a tool from my past, not because I think it's cheating, but because it diminishes the joy of facing an empty canvas and seeing what happens. I draw with my local open figure drawing group and I am able to draw pretty well, but unfortunately for me I do not get the same sense of joy and pleasure from drawing that I get from painting. Drawing for me is exercise, that builds strength in every other creative endeavor I pursue.
Peace, Dave
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