{"id":3084,"date":"2014-02-17T15:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2014-02-17T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T20:55:36","slug":"old-brushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/old-brushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh…time to retire some old brushes. I hang on to things too long: brushes, paint, oils, mediums, friends. But too frequently I’ve reached for a brush while in the middle of a painting session only to retrieve one of these old boys–far past their useful lives.<\/p>\n

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Retired brushes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So I’ve retired these tired old brushes. I won’t throw them out, God forbid!, but I am assigning them to old brush purgatory: a coffee can on hard to reach shelf in the studio. They might be useful for–who knows–some unusual effect some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sigh…time to retire some old brushes. I hang on to things too long: brushes, paint, oils, mediums, friends. But too frequently I’ve reached for a brush while in the middle of a painting session only to retrieve one of these old boys–far past their useful lives. So I’ve retired these tired old brushes. I won’t throw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3083,"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":[24,19,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-tips_tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dead-brushes.jpg?fit=466%2C314&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9442,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/sable-brushes\/","url_meta":{"origin":3084,"position":0},"title":"Sable brushes","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 24, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Sable brushes are the best. 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