Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24". Click on image to enlarge.

I did this landscape almost entirely from a photo from the internet. I wanted to practice some landscape techniques. The painting came out okay, but I thought it paled compared to the source photo. Well, that's why we practice; to try to get better, right? It's an image I would probably attempt again.

Incidentally, it's not really legal to copy someone else's image. It is acceptable to copy parts of it, or to combine parts of different images together, but the resulting work must be substantially different from the source image(s).

That said, art students have always outright copied the work of the great masters and others. What could be a better measure of your talent than to see if you could make an image just like a famous work? Obviously you can learn a lot by doing what the greats have done.

But again, this was done for practice, not for profit.