{"id":2798,"date":"2013-12-01T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2013-12-01T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:46:11","slug":"in-the-studio-12-1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/in-the-studio-12-1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 12-1-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the last week doing nothing but drawing. Here is ‘Main Street # 2.’ I finished the drawing and covered it with a rag-applied ground. The varnish-based ground is intended to seal the surface rather than provide a neutral tone, which is why it’s light.<\/p>\n

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Main Street #2 on the easel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I prepare a canvas, I draw the deign with pencil then go over it with ink to fix it. By ‘fix’ I mean preserve the drawing, not correct it. The ink preserves the drawing when the ground is applied, otherwise the turpentine in the ground would obliterate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the last week doing nothing but drawing. Here is ‘Main Street # 2.’ I finished the drawing and covered it with a rag-applied ground. The varnish-based ground is intended to seal the surface rather than provide a neutral tone, which is why it’s light. When I prepare a canvas, I draw the deign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":2799,"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":[6,19],"tags":[20,56],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-studio","tag-easel","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/studio-12-1-2013.png?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2569,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/in-the-studio-9222013\/","url_meta":{"origin":2798,"position":0},"title":"In the Studio 9\/22\/2013","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"September 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"More recent work. 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