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Ines Epperson's avatar

I am pleased that you mentioned "mastery" in art. My pet peeve is to see the poorly skilled, amateur work that so many "artists" post on public media, including the Daily Art Show, w/o having had any training, and worse, who charge exhorbitant prices. I am old-fashioned, I believe in schooling as well as hundreds of hours of practice before anyone can call themselves an artist.

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Tim Giles's avatar

There is so much truth in this. As an example, it took me five years of daily 2 hr practice sessions to shoot a longbow consistently well. Everything we want to master is this way. It is how ours minds develop and express the huge amount of information it takes to be masterful. Thank you Clint.

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