{"id":22,"date":"2004-09-09T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=22"},"modified":"2004-09-09T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T16:11:00","slug":"how-did-you-find-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2004\/09\/how-did-you-find-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"How did you find yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,  I wanted to tell you that you are an inspiration to me as i too am a self taught artist.  I do not have your success and have just recently begun to think about trying to expand my horizons into the art field.  I only work in oils and have labored many hours to learn to paint in a realistic style.  I have a long way to go.  I need much more discipline and need to hone my skills (drawing).  I have sold a few paintings and have three in a gallery but have not really taken myself seriously (although I want too)  I can not think of anything I would rather do than paint&#8230;.and  when i do not do it i feel guilty and hate myself and everyone else too.  Anyway, your work is beautiful and makes me feel that I too could one day do as you have as a self taught artist even though I do not have a degree.  <\/p>\n<p>Have you taken many classes or did you go it alone, i know how confusing it can be, well it least it has been for me but I am beginning to get a better feel for it, i refused to take local classes (small town) because everyone painted one dimensional flat paintings and they all looked the same. Have you ever encountered this?<\/p>\n<p>I do have a School of Art series of vhs tapes from the 1990&#8217;s that helped a great deal and lots of reference material.     <\/p>\n<p>How did you find yourself?<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely <\/p>\n<p>Cheryl <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I wanted to tell you that you are an inspiration to me as i too am a self taught artist. I do not have your success and have just recently begun to think about trying to expand my horizons into the art field. I only work in oils and have labored many hours to &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2004\/09\/how-did-you-find-yourself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-bj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}