{"id":3830,"date":"2014-07-05T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2014-07-05T20:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T00:30:26","slug":"in-the-studio-7414","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/in-the-studio-7414\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 7\/4\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are recent unfinished paintings. The bottom two are from a batch of 30&Prime; x 40&Prime; canvases. That batch of paintings have nothing in common except size. I stretched a half-dozen at one go. The middle painting began&nbsp;with a closed window, I then&nbsp;opened the window and added a landscape view through it. Now, as you can see, I reverted back to a closed window. this time making the window smaller.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3829\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/in-the-studio-7414\/studio-2014-7-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3829\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3829\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/studio-2014-7-4.jpg?resize=444%2C637\" alt=\"On the easel 7\/4\/14\" width=\"444\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/studio-2014-7-4.jpg?w=444&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/studio-2014-7-4.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/studio-2014-7-4.jpg?resize=260%2C373&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/studio-2014-7-4.jpg?resize=160%2C229&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the easel 7\/4\/14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The topmost painting&ndash;Girl with Pink-Streaked Hair&ndash;is near to being finished (knock wood).<\/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>These paintings are propped against my new, magnificent easel&ndash;which you can&rsquo;t see. The new easel is a significant upgrade from my old, raggedy easel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are recent unfinished paintings. The bottom two are from a batch of 30&Prime; x 40&Prime; canvases. That batch of paintings have nothing in common except size. I stretched a half-dozen at one go. The middle painting began&nbsp;with a closed window, I then&nbsp;opened the window and added a landscape view through it. Now, as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3829,"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-3830","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\/2014\/07\/studio-2014-7-4.jpg?fit=444%2C637&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3054,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/in-the-studio-222014\/","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 2\/2\/2014","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a photo of some recent work. I have discussed the larger, The Call, in the series of posts I wrote about it, which I'll update tomorrow. The smaller painting, Two Women Before a Window still has a ways to go. Today I closed the window. Originally the window\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Paintings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Paintings","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/paintings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/studio-2-2-14.jpg?fit=500%2C910&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4617,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/in-the-studio-1252105\/","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":1},"title":"In the studio 1\/25\/2105","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Main Street #1, or 'The Antique Shop,' is on the easel in this photograph. I had a couple of good, long sessions on it today. I'm having fun painting the bric-a-brac in the shop window. Vermilion is a lake-front town (biggest concentration of small-boat marinas on the Great Lakes) and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/studio-1-25-15.jpg?fit=466%2C341&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4756,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/in-the-studio-22215\/","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":2},"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. Instead, things started clicking during yesterday's session. I will finish it. The canvas is from a batch of canvases I prepared a year or so ago. All were finished the same way and were the say size--30\"\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\/2015\/02\/studio-2015-2-22.jpg?fit=444%2C648&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5039,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/in-the-studio-4262015\/","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":3},"title":"In the studio 4\/26\/2015","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Junk in a junk shop--oops!,\u00a0antique shop--and people milling about doing what people do. Main Street #1 is composed from three photos. I moved figures around, as I often do, in a\u00a0photo of an antique shop on Main St, and added figures from two other photos. Three photos for a\u00a0painting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Paintings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Paintings","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/paintings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/studio-2015-4-26.jpg?fit=466%2C360&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3673,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/two-unfinished-small-paintings-on-the-easel\/","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":4},"title":"Two unfinished small paintings on the easel","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are two unfinished small paintings. I enjoy painting the\u00a0full-length figure in the smaller format. In the portrait the contrast between the dark head and the light sky, seat, and shirt caught my eye. What I like about the\u00a0homemade glass palette you can see in the photo is that it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/small2.jpg?fit=400%2C532&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5604,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/in-the-studio-11715\/","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":5},"title":"In the studio 11\/7\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"When the painting ground (surface) isn't up to snuff paintings take longer. The ground for The Photographer is one of the poor ones. A small change in the preparation can have a major effect. I'll not repeat the same experiment again. It's taking a long time to get the surface\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Paintings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Paintings","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/paintings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/studio-2015-11-7.jpg?fit=600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/studio-2015-11-7.jpg?fit=600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/studio-2015-11-7.jpg?fit=600%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gw6F-ZM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}