{"id":12320,"date":"2023-04-10T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2023-04-10T12:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T16:33:03","slug":"a-bit-of-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2023\/04\/a-bit-of-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past week or so, I’ve worked exclusively on drawings. More precisely, designs for paintings, as the one illustrated below. These design-focused drawings will be covered by paint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one illustrated here is the smallest painting of the current crop. The others are 40″ x 54″ and bigger. This means that I can spend 5-6 days on a single drawing. It’s worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the past week or so, I’ve worked exclusively on drawings. More precisely, designs for paintings, as the one illustrated below. These design-focused drawings will be covered by paint. The one illustrated here is the smallest painting of the current crop. The others are 40″ x 54″ and bigger. This means that I can spend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":12318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[139,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-drawings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/zzzzzdraw2.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13304,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/good-paper-for-large-drawings\/","url_meta":{"origin":12320,"position":0},"title":"Good paper for large drawings","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Arches make good paper. 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