Copies of Artwork

I decided to do a couple copies of paintings I liked, to see how they do their style, and to help me see how I can push things further. A lot of artists do this, I realized. Picasso, Dali, and even the Renaissance painters did this. They would redo the painting in their own style, like the jazz standards being redone by different people. It helps so much more to try someone's style and see how they did it, then to just look at the painting, and guess how they did it. Here are some examples. One is a copy of a Leonardo painting, and the other is from a book on watercolor textures. It's interesting, because I can really see how far some people pushed their paintings, and how it can make my technique better.