I am an artist and sorry if I offended you but I see too much of the photographic stuff. I find it boring even when my friends do it and some of them do.
I, nor my wife, are offended if people don’t like her work. In fact, we’ve met only a couple of artists who like what she does. They always call it “copy work”. It is true that her stuff looks realistic, but that’s what she enjoys doing. It also happens that 99 percent of non-artists love her work.
What put me off was that you automatically assumed that she projected the picture on a canvas and just copied it. Maybe that’s how your friends do their work, but its not how my wife does it. Maybe they don’t have the skill to look and imitate what they see without a projector. I would still like to see some of your work, or a piece that isn’t boring to you.