Copies of Masters
There was no teacher I listened to who has not said: The best way to learn painting is to copy the old masters. And that was done by almost all famous painters. If you travel to Europe and go to the painting galleries you will often see a painter there with his easel copying a painting. In Europe these copies are highly paid, here people prefer something genuine, new from a painter. So many times I copied only part of a painting and then invented the rest. Great fun. And I learned a lot.
Mount Aetna with Taormina ca. 1840, copy of unknown master
Fruit basket , copy from Caravaggio
Painter unknown, oil 10x8
Giovanna di Medici, oil, 18x20"Painter unknown, oil 10x8"
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Copy after Francico Zurbaran, oil, 24x18"
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Copy after Paola, oil, 14x10 3/4"
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"Peaches" copy of Giovanna de Medici
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"Figs" copy of Giovanna de Medici
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Compositon after Masters Still Life
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Old Masters Copy with additions of my own