Oil painter's prize-winning canvases look an awful lot like these photos

Ok, yes if we are just talking about faces.

But when people say just take your own photos, I’m thinking of architecture, animals, landscape etc.

And again, I don’t paint photo realistic portraits, and I have weird tastes. Free image sites are not as useful if you are looking for weird outfits etc.

I do work from my own photos as much as possible and alot of my stuff is more amalgamation of elements but I just did a quick search of the site you linked for subjects I’ve looked up in the past and found no or few examples.

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