{"id":6847,"date":"2010-10-13T05:44:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2016-11-08T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:49:40","slug":"sketching-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/sketching-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching #88"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6848\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PICT7883sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6848\" title=\"CPP Response #88: Marble\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PICT7883sm-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"CPP Response #88: Marble\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PICT7883sm-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PICT7883sm-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/PICT7883sm.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 85vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CPP Response #88: Marble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had a talk with my mom, who has been a drawing teacher in her past, about wanting to learn to improve my drawings. My dilemna is that I want to learn to improve my drawings and I don&#8217;t want to learn what normal drawing teachers want to teach me.<\/p>\n<p>My Young Man made some comment and my mom (his grandma) said that I had always wanted to learn this way, that I wanted to get into a topic myself with minimal direction and then get specific help. She continued that she thought that is why I had always been bored in school.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was interesting to hear my mom&#8217;s take on my life, even a small slice, and to hear her having this discussion with my Young Man while I was sitting right there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she gave me some tips, which I will try out. She also said that she could see the improvement in my work, which turned out to be a much needed boost to my ego.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/creative-prompt-88-marble\/\" target=\"_blank\">original prompt<\/a> for more information about this project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a talk with my mom, who has been a drawing teacher in her past, about wanting to learn to improve my drawings. My dilemna is that I want to learn to improve my drawings and I don&#8217;t want to learn what normal drawing teachers want to teach me. My Young Man made some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/sketching-88\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketching #88&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[390],"tags":[176,311,72],"class_list":["post-6847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-cpp-response","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}