{"id":3702,"date":"2014-06-11T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:03:26","slug":"starting-a-new-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/starting-a-new-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a new painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the beginning of a new painting. After fixing the pencil drawing with ink, I covered the surface with broad color areas. The goal of this initial layer is to cover the entire surface with local colors. The drawing took several days but I did the laying-in in a single day.<\/p>\n

\"Laying-in<\/a>
Laying-in broad color areas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next, I’ll rework the entire surface strengthening the drawing. The 42″ x 56″ painting is titled Picnic<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is the beginning of a new painting. After fixing the pencil drawing with ink, I covered the surface with broad color areas. The goal of this initial layer is to cover the entire surface with local colors. The drawing took several days but I did the laying-in in a single day. Next, I’ll rework the entire surface strengthening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3701,"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":[6,24,19],"tags":[196,56],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","tag-underpainting","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/DSC_0014.jpg?fit=500%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3597,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/in-the-studio-542014\/","url_meta":{"origin":3702,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 5\/4\/2014","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is another painting from the cycle of large paintings ( this one is 42\" x 56\") that I am doing. 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