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…Left: Richard Shulman works on one of many self-portraits. Above: A portrait Shulman painted from a photograph of a member of Julia Kay's Portrait Party, an invitation-only artists' community on flickr.com 'With the slow economy, I found I had a lot of time on my hands. I bought an iPad in June 2010 and was drawn to the art programs. I found four or five really good pro- fessional programs, and I started to play around." His wife, Trista, wa...…
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