Life Painting

In the last painting class today the teacher gave a critique of each person's work.  I didn't take in all of what he said to me but I do remember his exclamation when I lined up all my work.  "Hey, look at that!" he said about the painting I did today in about an hour.  This was the painting of Matisse by Derain -- the vice versa of the portrait of Derain by Matisse.  The teacher liked both of my copies a lot but said the paintings were so famous they would be dismissed as copies in the Open House.  Instead I'm showing the Cezanne copy that I "made my own."