{"id":12362,"date":"2023-05-10T09:42:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:20:46","slug":"palettes-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/palettes-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Palettes everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hand clamps I use for carpentry are versatile. Here, I&rsquo;ve used one to attach a palette to my easel. My big palette, the one that spills over my paint cabinet, is movable but when I work on a big canvas, like this one, it can be a tight fit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=640%2C999\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=656%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 656w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=192%2C300&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=768%2C1198&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=560%2C874&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=260%2C406&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?resize=160%2C250&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My big palette has space for tone mixing but I wanted some values of cool black and raw umber for this painting titled <em>Winner<\/em>.  I often mix a lot of values like this when the canvas is big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?resize=640%2C414\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?resize=768%2C496&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?resize=560%2C362&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?resize=260%2C168&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zclamp2.jpg?resize=160%2C103&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/in-the-studio-oct-14-2012\/\" class=\"template-2\"><span class=\"cta\">Read more<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><em>Winner<\/em> is part of my Amusement Park series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hand clamps I use for carpentry are versatile. Here, I&rsquo;ve used one to attach a palette to my easel. My big palette, the one that spills over my paint cabinet, is movable but when I work on a big canvas, like this one, it can be a tight fit. My big palette has space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":12360,"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":[507,208,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amusement-park-series","category-materials","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/zzzzzclamp.jpg?fit=800%2C1248&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9245,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2021\/02\/ragged-easel\/","url_meta":{"origin":12362,"position":0},"title":"Ragged easel","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"My Utrecht easel has served me well. True, it's held together with glue and clamps, but it still handles the large-size paintings that I make. One thing the easel lacks is a place to rest a palette, even a small one. I keep my normal palette on a mobile cabinet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;materials&quot;","block_context":{"text":"materials","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/materials\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vise-palette.jpg?fit=800%2C843&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vise-palette.jpg?fit=800%2C843&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vise-palette.jpg?fit=800%2C843&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/vise-palette.jpg?fit=800%2C843&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12776,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2023\/09\/premixing-tones\/","url_meta":{"origin":12362,"position":1},"title":"Premixing tones","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"September 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Artists spend a lot of time thinking about their palettes; how many colors, which colors, how big, and so forth. My palette is too large to hold in my hand so I keep it on a cart next to the easel. The palette has to be big enough to contain\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;How to&quot;","block_context":{"text":"How to","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pal4.jpg?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pal4.jpg?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pal4.jpg?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pal4.jpg?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/pal4.jpg?fit=1200%2C738&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8752,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/those-who-live-in-glass-houses\/","url_meta":{"origin":12362,"position":2},"title":"Those who live in glass houses&#8230;","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"...or use glass palettes. I get a lot of questions about my homemade palette. I've been using this palette for several years and by now it's pretty beat-up. In fact, I attempted to replace it recently but the replacement's glass cracked before I could use it. What is it? It\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;materials&quot;","block_context":{"text":"materials","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/materials\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-3-24b.png?fit=800%2C619&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-3-24b.png?fit=800%2C619&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-3-24b.png?fit=800%2C619&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-3-24b.png?fit=800%2C619&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8490,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/turpentine-diaries-7-6-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":12362,"position":3},"title":"Turpentine diaries 7\/6\/19","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"After several days of drawing, I spent the last 5-6 days working on The Lens (unfinished painting on the easel). I started with the over-painting today before running out of gas. 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