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No-longer puzzled...

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                                                     Dunstaffnage Tree Imagine how much time the artist must have spent, in order to have drawn this image as accurately as this required! I write this, reflecting on my own previous thinking, over many younger years. I've been drawing since 'toddlerhood', like almost every child - childhood's magic and art blends occasionally...that blend does not evaporate (I'm still addicted!). I created this shaped board on which I painted 'Dunstaffnage Tree'. My lifetime of drawing constantly, on everything and everywhere, would have allowed me to draw and paint the resultant piece of art. That's as one may expect - but no, that truly was not the case. While drawing is as natural as anything that a person's evolution results in...the remarkable 'Tracedown' is a recent and generally unknown product. Artwork-worshipers, like myself, revere and respect the abilities of their heroes: those artists th