Eesh, yeah - a 10-hour journey is a bit much, even for that. Unless you were flying to see it in Egypt. That'd be worth it. :)

It does sort of annoy me when the same person constantly advertises on a comm.

Absolutely. I think it's bad manners. Like you say, talking about what you've learnt from copying a painting is an old, established tradition, and completely fascinating - and would be suitable for an art history comm discussion on, say, "How have you interpreted artwork from history?"

But if the post is voting for the comm's top-ten favourite Cezanne paintings, you don't ignore the vote, and comment, "Oh, I love 'Still life with apples and oranges', it had such an impact on Cubism - I did a reproduction of it in this collection of art for sale, plus there's a lovely interpretation of Picasso in there, and some nice Whistlers." And post a picture of the collection. Particularly if it's the first thing you've posted to the comm, and previously you've not been involved in the discussions about art history.

Mentioning something once, in a post asking for people's work - that might be acceptable. Although I think that would depend on whether the post was asking for professional work that's for sale, or amateur work that's available for anyone to see and enjoy. I think there's a big difference.

That's my long, convoluted reply. *g*