Normally I don’t write about new drawings; we make drawings all the time. This drawing is unusually large for a pencil drawing, 30″ x 40″. It’s also notable for being on hot-pressed watercolor paper. I wrote recently about how happy I am with my roll of Arches watercolor paper. Girl with a Bunny Purse is…
Category: Main Street
Main Street, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner
What’s in the kitchen
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•This corner of my studio shows two paintings that I’m working on. The unfinished painting on the floor is the latest in my Main Street series. The large vertical painting is the newest work in my Amusement Park series. I had my first painting session with it yesterday. I’ll continue to work both of these…
cameras, Main Street, Paintings, Studio Corner, Vermilion, OH
New camera lens
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•Main Street, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, Tips and Studies
‘Liberty Avenue’ again
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•Art students frequently struggle over how to start a painting. Once started poorly, a painting is hard to correct. I’ve shared the starting stages of several of my paintings for art students struggling with starting a painting. I expected my previous post about the progress of my new painting, Liberty Avenue, to be the final…
computers, Main Street, Paintings, Shop Talk, Studio Corner, thomasparkerhudson.com
Updates
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•Yesterday I noticed that I haven’t updated my galleries for a while. So, I added two paintings that I finished last year. Here is one of them, Woman in Black-stripped Dress: Woman in Black-stripped Dress is 40″ x 54.” While working on the gallery, I noticed that the gallery plug-in, NextGen, wasn’t working properly; the…
Main Street, materials, Paintings, Shop Talk, Tips and Studies, Turpentine diaries, Uncategorized, Vermilion, OH
Arguing with a painting
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•I’ve had a long argument with this as-yet-untitled painting. The argument started as soon as I completed the original design. I spent time taking things out of the design after it was supposed to be finished. I work hard on designs and only start painting with the drawing is finished. But it’s a large painting,…