The one reason why you should copy the masters…

When there’s a major exhibition, you can feel the ripple.
One artist gets attention.
And suddenly you see echoes everywhere.

And I don’t mean that as a criticism.

Copying can be a serious form of learning.
It’s class.
It’s apprenticeship from a distance.

You copy to understand. I do. I try to understand how things are done.

What I need to learn.
To see how the decisions were made.
To train your hand and your eye.

But there’s a line.

On one side: copying as study.
On the other: copying as shelter.

That line is usually quiet. It’s hardly visible.

You can still make something competent.
Even beautiful.
But there is this moment when it starts to feel like you’re borrowing your own work from someone else.

That’s when you have to let it go.

Here’s the 2-minute studio note I recorded for you.

One question: Who do you paint like when you don’t want to risk being yourself?

Leave one sentence. I read them.

If you want to be first to know when The Artist’s Method opens in September: Click here to join the waitlist