{"id":3509,"date":"2014-04-13T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2014-04-13T16:47:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:47:42","slug":"in-the-studio-2014-4-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/in-the-studio-2014-4-13\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 2014-4-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the newest studio update. The drawing on the floor started as a painting on canvas board, but I was having so much fun drawing, I decided to finish it that way. I still plan a painting on the same subject&ndash;the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Colorado.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3478\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/in-the-studio-2014-4-13\/studio-2014-4-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3478\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3478\" alt=\"On the easel 2014-4-13\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/studio-2014-4-13.jpg?resize=500%2C766\" width=\"500\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/studio-2014-4-13.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/studio-2014-4-13.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/studio-2014-4-13.jpg?resize=260%2C398&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/studio-2014-4-13.jpg?resize=160%2C245&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the easel 2014-4-13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I prepared the canvas board using the <a title=\"Smooth Move&mdash;Smooth Painting Surfaces\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/smooth-move-smooth-painting-surfaces\/\">method described in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/cleveland-museum-of-art\/\" class=\"template-2\"><span class=\"cta\">Read more<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>I also finished preparing a 42&Prime; x 56&Prime; canvas today: 2 coats of glue, 3 coats of gesso, and finished with a toned ground of raw umber.The entire process took a fortnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the newest studio update. The drawing on the floor started as a painting on canvas board, but I was having so much fun drawing, I decided to finish it that way. I still plan a painting on the same subject&ndash;the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Colorado. I prepared the canvas board using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3510,"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":[139,191,6,19],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-drawings","category-paintings","category-studio","tag-drawings-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/ngg_featured\/sangre_de_cristo.jpg?fit=444%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6648,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/pastels-on-canvas\/","url_meta":{"origin":3509,"position":0},"title":"Pastels on canvas","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"These two recent pastel drawings are on canvas. Primed canvas is an unusual support for pastels or charcoal because it's not absorbent enough. \u00a0Pastel chalk falls off too easily. \u00a0I originally intended\u00a0to use these canvases for paintings. \u00a0I had actually started painting on the larger of the two (the gray\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;anecdotes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"anecdotes","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/anecdotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pastels-2.jpg?fit=800%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pastels-2.jpg?fit=800%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pastels-2.jpg?fit=800%2C768&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/pastels-2.jpg?fit=800%2C768&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3871,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/in-the-studio-7132014\/","url_meta":{"origin":3509,"position":1},"title":"In the studio 7\/13\/2014","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As usual, here is a photo of recent unfinished work. 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I've spent the last couple of weeks drawing and completing painting designs. Normally, when I finish the design for a new painting, I can't wait to pick up the brushes and pitch in. 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