impressioniste

Instead of my concentration, I am currently working on a project for my french class. We were supposed to pick an impressionist or post impressionist artist and reproduce a painting of theirs with oil pastels. I'm not much one for copying works, and though I would've liked to work with oil pastels, I decided to just do a painting in an artist's style.
I chose Berthe Morisot because all the other artists I recognized were taken, and I figured, why not learn about a new artist... Her work is really beautiful! I actually really like this impressionist painter stuff even if it seems all traditional and boring. They really were good at what they did.the cradle. I think her most famous one.
This is one of my favorites of hers.

from what I can gather, what makes the impressionist style the impressionist style is that they have very loose, painterly brush strokes, but they aren't careless. There is a lot of light in their paintings and very little black, so everything seems very angelic and serene. I think there is a lot to be learned about their use of color: they were brave with them and chose vibrant over what they actually saw, or maybe they did see them.
I'm painting Melis and a fish, and I'm making progress nicely, but it is not in any shape to be photographed right now.