Every time I view this picture done in oil on a drawing pad paper I automatically think that this surfer looks like former President Richard Nixon of The United States...honestly I do. The man drawn is suppose to be a self portrait of myself but in no way am I suppose to look like Richard Nixon it just turned out that way. I blunder drawing pictures as I also blunder playing chess and making mistakes more often than not costing me the game. Think of me as a Yankee Doodle doodler and not an artist but if you insist on calling me an artist I will concede some paintings and drawings I do use freehand style but when I read Gareth Prichard's arguments on the merits of tracing posted on my very own website I was convinced there can be virtue in tracing pictures no matter how vicious opponents are to tracing for tracing can put us into the mind and into the being of that particular great master of the arts that we would otherwise never come to know. More on tracing to follow.
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