I participated in a workshop in September, that could have been entitled: "Create your own Rembrandt," led by my portrait teacher, Carin Hebenstreit. I don't remember what the workshop was actually entitled, but the object was to make a close copy of one of the master's works. Carin had chosen a portrait with a very interesting history. Rembrandt had painted a portrait of one of his house maids, then placed it in a window facing the street. Apparently many of the townsfolk believed that it was really a person in the window. There may also have been some scandal about an idle servant, and/or a servant girl wearing jewelry (how scandalous!). About one day into the 3-day workshop my copy looked like this:

But at the end of second day I had brought it to this more or less final state: Had I been able to attend the third day of the workshop, I might have been able to give it a more "finished" look. But it was great fun nonetheless.