{"id":3344,"date":"2014-03-28T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2014-03-28T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:31:20","slug":"about-yesterdays-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/about-yesterdays-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"About yesterday&#8217;s rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rant\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/rant\/\">Yesterday&rsquo;s rant<\/a> started as the preamble to a much longer post about painting techniques and the craft of painting. The soon-to-be-published post is already too long so I removed the preamble. By itself, the preamble is rather mysterious and lacks context. I try to talk straight here and pull no punches, but ranting is not my style. 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I try to talk straight here and pull no punches, but ranting is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","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":[139,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-bio","category-thomasparkerhudson-com","post_format-post-format-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3337,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/rant\/","url_meta":{"origin":3344,"position":0},"title":"Rant","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 27, 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"I was taught nothing of practical use about painting when I was a student. Worse than the daily dose of esoteric BS was the relentless, sneering attack on the subjects of technique and history, which were held in utter contempt. Pollack, so I was lectured, allowed his brushes to dry\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5686,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/busy-palette\/","url_meta":{"origin":3344,"position":1},"title":"Busy palette","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I prepared today's medium and took yesterday's\u00a0palette out of the butcher's tray where I store it. (The rectangular palette is my workaday palette; I only use the traditional oval one to mix certain tones.) I use my workaday palette 2- or sometimes 3-days running before cleaning it. 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I hadn't looked at the painting for months before yesterday's session. It's not unusual for a painting to be in-hand for a long time, and then--boom--I finish quickly. The top painting in the photo, Keep Talking, is still raw.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;aesthetics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"aesthetics","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/aesthetics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/studio-2018-12-16.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/studio-2018-12-16.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/studio-2018-12-16.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7459,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/turpentine-diaries-111217\/","url_meta":{"origin":3344,"position":4},"title":"Turpentine diaries 11\/12\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 12, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's session with Booth at the Fair is my 5th. By contrast, yesterday's sessions with On the Square was the 20th and final one.\u00a0 I have a long way to go with this painting.\u00a0 It's 44\" x 60\" but it feels larger, perhaps it's the amount of detail or the\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\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-12.png?fit=800%2C515&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-12.png?fit=800%2C515&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-12.png?fit=800%2C515&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-12.png?fit=800%2C515&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4756,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/in-the-studio-22215\/","url_meta":{"origin":3344,"position":5},"title":"In the studio 2\/22\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 22, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This 30\" x 40\" oil was almost among the unfinished paintings recently purged. 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