{"id":31,"date":"2015-12-28T05:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T05:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurelantur.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/28\/2015-12-27-voice-style-consistent-arg\/"},"modified":"2015-12-28T05:45:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T05:45:32","slug":"2015-12-27-voice-style-consistent-arg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/28\/2015-12-27-voice-style-consistent-arg\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice? Style? Consistent? Arg!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/5680c6c75a5668eee10fcda0\/1451280083491\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Once\u00a018\" x 24\" Ink and white glue on paper. 2015.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once\u00a018&#8243; x 24&#8243; Ink and white glue on paper. 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 3072px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5181e760e4b04f94760cb317\/51832db8e4b0046126d0409f\/5680c9eed82d5e873673a56e\/1451280890130\/\/img.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"Work in progress. Untitled. Watercolor.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work in progress. Untitled. Watercolor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/austinkleon.com\/2015\/12\/10\/how-to-find-your-voice\/?utm_content=buffer8f7ee&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" rel=\"noopener\">This blog post<\/a>, though meant for younger artists, struck a cord. In short it says to find artists you envy and try to make art like them, but in your own way, until find your own style. And then, after you&#8217;ve found your voice, you really just start to imitate yourself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love how this reframes envy. It gives me something to do with it. But the part about imitating yourself has been on my mind these past couple of weeks. I have a short attention span, and just when I am feeling confident with an approach or a medium, I am instantly sick of it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know that sticking with an idea is how you build a body of work. So I&#8217;ll try to limit my experiments to stay within certain parameters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post, though meant for younger artists, struck a cord. In short it says to find artists you envy and try to make art like them, but in your own way, until find your own style. And then, after you&#8217;ve found your voice, you really just start to imitate yourself.&nbsp; I love how this reframes envy. It gives me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticalexpressivearts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}