I didn’t fully understand the theme behind the exhibit. I figure it was along the lines of<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We got Monet! Renoir! Degas! And even a Chagall!”<\/font color><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Works for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And I got to stare, in person, at a bunch of Impressionist paintings. And some other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Museums let you draw inside (they even have folding chairs you can borrow), but the only permitted media is pencil. So I brought 3 colored pencils, each a variation on a primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I drew “Rising Tide at Pourville,” a work from 1882.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I got home, I pulled out my watercolors and completed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was so amazing to study how Monet put his colors together. And the brush strokes he used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can’t think of time better spent than staring at his work, being amazed by it, and learning from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course my version is heavily flawed. But, damn, it was fun working on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I got to stare, in person, at paintings by Monet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even the very best-quality print doesn’t do justice to seeing the original canvases in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibit is open through Jan. 5, 2025. I may go again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got to stare, in person, at two paintings by Claude Monet. I even tried to draw one. The art museum in Columbia, SC has an exhibit called “French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 \u2013 1950.” I visited it this week. I didn’t fully understand the theme behind the exhibit. I figure it was along…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> What a privilege…<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,18,38],"tags":[51,52],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art","category-drawing-2","category-watercolor","tag-art","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mirrer.com\/MirrerView\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Colored pencils to the rescue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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I got closer than I expected to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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