Copy to learn

Reading the book about the story of Van Gogh one thing striked me. He was a avid copier of other artists paintings that he admired as a way of learning. I think I might benefit from that. As long as I'm honest to myself to the fact that I'm copying to learn and that I will always try to bring something mine to the copy. I will look at some picture that I admire and copy them with what I have at hand. And with that in mind I think I've being doing this all along and I can clearly see references of other photos in those 2.