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The Weinman Herrmann Collaboration: we paint unique interpretations of masterpieces.

What began as a student teacher relationship has evolved into the traditional apprentice master relationship and into a collaboration.   According to tradition, if you wanted to learn how to paint, your father paid for you to apprentice in a master's workshop.  By watching and copying the master's work you learned how to paint.  Eventually, the apprentice is encouraged to paint portions of the master's compositions, as Leonardo da Vinci did in his master, Verrocchio's paintings.  At this point and in our modern world this work may be classified as a collaboration.

Melissa Weinman has been teaching Lara Herrmann how to paint by allowing her to select the masterpieces she wanted to study and then teaching her how to paint them.  Copying masterpieces is a time tested method for learning the demanding art of representational painting.  Weinman has been copying masterpieces for years as a way of improving her own painting skills.  Now Melissa and Lara are painting masterpieces together.

Technically no one alive today has ever heard Mozart's music.  We have only heard people copying and interpreting his music.  Why should it be different with art?  Melissa and Lara are taking masterpieces from the past and bringing them into this century to celebrate them.  Contact us to bring your dream of owning a masterpiece into reality!

Below are photographs of our work and process.
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