January 19, 2024 - Using references for artists goes WAY back. Whether you're painting from nature like Van Gogh out in the wild, scratching on a cave to reproduce what you've seen int he forest, models posing in your studio, or like Munch, using the new tech of photographs to create work from... referring to the outside world to capture it's reality, or to study it's architecture is as old as art making itself is. These day's the library of possibilities is near endless.  Reference is a source of details, information essential to our process, that's obvious. But it can also be a trap and a siren to sing your art to shipwreck if you're not careful. The temptation to hook too many chains to the point of being imprisoned by the subject is always a threat, especially if…