{"id":4139,"date":"2018-10-11T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2018-10-12T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T21:16:11","slug":"im-so-happy-to-be-trying-to-paint-like-an-impressionist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/11\/im-so-happy-to-be-trying-to-paint-like-an-impressionist\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m so happy to be trying to paint like an Impressionist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4138\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101118-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4138\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101118-5-154x300.jpg\" alt=\"I am so happy to be trying to paint like an Impressionist! It's so fun and so liberating and different from the rigorous training I had before. But I'm scared I'm not actually improving in ^technical skill. Some say it's irrelevant as long as I'm having fun, but I'm having doubts.\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101118-5-154x300.jpg 154w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/aw101118-5.jpg 164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I am so happy to be trying to paint like an Impressionist! It&#8217;s so fun and so liberating and different from the rigorous training I had before. But I&#8217;m scared I&#8217;m not actually improving in ^technical skill. Some say it&#8217;s irrelevant as long as I&#8217;m having fun, but I&#8217;m having doubts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How wonderful that painting in the Impressionist style is giving you so much joy! I\u2019m not exactly a painting expert (just look at me&#8211;I\u2019m very bland looking, aren\u2019t I?) but I\u2019m sure there are technical skills involved in Impressionism; just maybe different technical skills than you have used before \u2026 or technical skills you know but used in a different way. I understand one way to develop skills is to do small studies of the same image. Since they are small you can practice and compare different techniques and skills in a fairly short period of time and further develop that way. The important thing is to keep painting and learning and enjoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How wonderful that painting in the Impressionist style is giving you so much joy! I\u2019m not exactly a painting expert (just look at me&#8211;I\u2019m very bland looking, aren\u2019t I?) but I\u2019m sure there are technical skills involved in Impressionism; just maybe different technical skills than you have used before \u2026 or technical skills you know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/11\/im-so-happy-to-be-trying-to-paint-like-an-impressionist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m so happy to be trying to paint like an Impressionist!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4139\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}