I started a new cycle of paintings yesterday. All paintings are 44″ x 60″. The only thing, really,that the paintings have in common is their size. It’s convent to buy stretchers in bulk. I build the stretchers by hand for paintings larger than 5′ x 6′. The first painting in the cycle isl in the drawing stage. It will take several more days to finish the drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I started a new cycle of paintings yesterday. All paintings are 44″ x 60″. The only thing, really,that the paintings have in common is their size. It’s convent to buy stretchers in bulk. I build the stretchers by hand for paintings larger than 5′ x 6′. The first painting in the cycle isl in the drawing […]<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-status","hentry","category-shop_talk","post_format-post-format-status"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6204,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/in-the-studio-7616\/","url_meta":{"origin":3867,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 7\/6\/16","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I've stretched and gessoed a large number of canvases this week. \u00a0Soon, my store of stretchers will be exhausted. \u00a0I'm concentrating on several dimensions: 36\" x 48\", \u00a040\" x 50\", and 44\" x 60\". \u00a0I have 6-10 paintings in each of those dimensions in various states of finish. 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