{"id":1082,"date":"2009-01-18T00:10:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/01\/18\/1082\/"},"modified":"2009-01-18T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T23:10:59","slug":"vincent-thomas-and-charlotte-van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/vincent-thomas-and-charlotte-van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent, Thomas and Charlotte van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/3204191885\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3455\/3204191885_2b1a68aa14_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/3204191885\/\">Vincent, Thomas and Charlotte van Gogh<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>About three years ago, I decided to teach myself to paint.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a lot of oil paint, an easel and lots of canvases, and even more importantly, I found a most wonderful book called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0060747919?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=0060747919\">How to Paint Like the Impressionists<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=0060747919\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i> by Susie Hodge.<\/p>\n<p>It basically shows step by step how to copy parts of well-known impressionist paintings.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t claim for a second that I was very good at it, but it was good fun.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, Phyllis, Marcel, Charlotte and L\u00e9on moved in with me, and I haven&#8217;t had the luxury to think about such things since then.<\/p>\n<p>But now the book is being used again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte got an acrylics painting set from my parents for her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t really know where to start, so I found the book again, and it seemed to inspire her, too.<\/p>\n<p>So today she copied a painting by van Gogh that I myself copied three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>See the original and our two copies on the right.  Who&#8217;s the better painter? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent, Thomas and Charlotte van Gogh Originally uploaded by viralbus About three years ago, I decided to teach myself to paint. I bought a lot of oil paint, an easel and lots of canvases, and even more importantly, I found a most wonderful book called How to Paint Like the Impressionists by Susie Hodge. It basically shows step by step how to copy parts of well-known impressionist paintings. I wouldn&#8217;t claim for a second that I was very good at it, but it was good fun. Shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}