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Well dear reader(s), I hope you're not tired of reading about my "sorta master copies" because I'm writing about them again! Because–you'll never guess–but I did yet another one! Once again, as with my attempt at kinda/sorta copying the John Singer Sargent painting of Henry James where I did not put my own cubist inspired spin, I did another one without the aforementioned spin. This is a portrait of the 19th and early 20th century violinist and composer John Martin Loeffler by–you guess it–John Singer Sargent. I chose to sorta copy this one because, if I'm honest it looked like it [...]

Last week I wrote about how I used the John Singer Sargent portrait that I had done a "sorta master copy" as reference material for a painting of Hank Hill. Well, I decided to try it again. This time I used a different Sargent painting–his portrait of the 19th Century author Henry James as reference material for a painting of Peter Griffin from Family Guy.   Apart from the idea that, if they knew about it, both Sargent and James would be rolling over in their graves over the fact that they were considered at all in the painting of a character so [...]

In my last two blog posts I showed you what I've been calling my "sorta master copies". The week before last I wrote about my sorta copy of a John Singer Sargent and then last week it was my sorta copy of a Rembrandt self portrait. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you may have seen my sorta master copy of a John Singleton Copley painting, which I believe is called Portrait of Negro. Side note–I decided to call mine Portrait of a Man. Much better, I'd say!   So all of this experimenting has been leading up to me trying [...]

Last week I told you about (and showed you) what I called my "sorta master copy" of an old portrait by John Singer Sargent. What I didn't tell you was that this was not the first time I'd worked on such a thing. In fact just a few weeks ago I decided to try a sorta copy of a Rembrandt self portrait. Just for fun. That day was a Friday and I sometime like to do a "quick study" painting on Fridays. Something that's a little bit outside of the norm for me.   So I did a very silly looking sketch of [...]