Part I - Introduction: The Philosophy and Canon
To be an Impressionist Painter, you must take the path of a visionary. You need time for reflection to look deeper into your subject matter and the expression you desire to capture.
Impressionists experimented and took risks. Like them, we who desire to work in this method will be perfected through applying skills and techniques and through the rigors inherent in this new way of seeing and desiring to communicate that moment. It takes time to grow as an artist in method and technique through living in the joy of painting, which is there for us, waiting for us to let go and let it be.

Impressionism is an intricate interplay of science and poetry, where science is the application of one's craft to represent one's vision, while poetry is a passionate expression of one's personal experience. Impressionist painters rely on this interplay of science and poetry to be expressed through the hand's technical action, offering their viewers an experience of a captured transcendent moment.

Whatever subject you choose, you must recognize yourself in it and paint what your heart wants to say. The goal is to refine your ideas into a cohesive expression that others can enjoy. A recurring theme in the impressionist identity is pursuing a special moment in life seen with fresh eyes.

“Painting is my second self. There are times when I paint; I feel raptured. Time and space seem to fold, providing me the most wonderful imaginative encounter, a state of being fully alive in the moment.” Dmitri

My Dancing Brush will be different from your Dancing Brush. Monet's Dancing Brush was different than Degas'. With Impressionism, it's not so much that you paint, but why you paint.
When your Dancing Brush becomes alive in the moment, it will be as if your painting seems to paint itself. It is in this state an artist reaches what I call a 'creative bliss'—anyone who has experienced this elevated level of painting longs to have this passion happen more often. Working in both the science and the poetry of Impressionism, the painting process carries the mark of its author. Impressionism is noted for its exciting and sensitive brushwork patterns, becoming part of the identity of an artist, one's own creative DNA.

The masters of Impressionism developed a new way of looking at their world.
• Painting from the eye simply makes one a camera
• Painting with the intellect merely makes one a philosopher
• Painting from the heart solitary makes one a poet
• Painting with the Spirit makes one, one with all

Your Perspective: The lens through which you look at the world will determine what you create.

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