{"id":4123,"date":"2014-09-21T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2014-09-21T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T20:31:27","slug":"in-the-studio-92114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/in-the-studio-92114\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 9\/21\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had several sessions with this painting, Dinner in Trenton<\/em>, over the past few days. It was the\u00a0first opportunity to use my new Terkell<\/a>\u00a0flats;\u00a0first-rate brushes–and affordability priced.<\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>
On the easel, the unfinished ‘Dinner in Trenton’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How many more sessions? Hard to say. Working on a large painting (Dinner in Trenton<\/em> is 42″ x 56″) is a series of calculations. \u00a0It’s easy to make extra work for yourself if you don’t pay attention. The idea is to make succeeding layers easier because of solid underlying layers. \u00a0Things can get tricky when there are many layers, as is typical for me. The best approach is to make everything as close to finished all the time; to make solid decisions every time I touch the brush. There’s always more to do later.<\/p>\n

I’m talking here about painting<\/em>. Regular readers know I having many drawing sessions on a new painting before I touch the brush. Solid drawing is the key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had several sessions with this painting, Dinner in Trenton, over the past few days. It was the\u00a0first opportunity to use my new Terkell\u00a0flats;\u00a0first-rate brushes–and affordability priced. How many more sessions? Hard to say. Working on a large painting (Dinner in Trenton is 42″ x 56″) is a series of calculations. \u00a0It’s easy to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[208,6,24,19,1],"tags":[9,271,56],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-uncategorized","tag-paintings-2","tag-studio","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/studio-2014-9-21.jpg?fit=500%2C655&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5062,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/in-the-studio-5315\/","url_meta":{"origin":4123,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 5\/3\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I build paintings slowly. I spend a considerable amount of time on the drawing before touching a brush. Once painting starts, I try to work as efficiently as possible. It doesn't always work out--so much can go awry. But the point of so much preparation is go get a painting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bio"","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\/05\/studio-2015-5-2.jpg?fit=500%2C365&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3871,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/in-the-studio-7132014\/","url_meta":{"origin":4123,"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. I finished the background of Dinner in Trenton (large painting--44\" x 56\") yesterday. This morning I worked on Boat Hook (smaller painting. I continued working on the drawing for another large canvas--44\" x 60\". \u00a0I also stretched another 44\" x\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paintings"","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\/07\/studio-7-13.jpg?fit=444%2C453&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3549,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/in-the-studio-4202014\/","url_meta":{"origin":4123,"position":2},"title":"In the studio 4\/20\/2014","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The lower painting has along way to go; the raw umber ground is still visible beneath the figure on the lower-left and other places. It's 40\" x 56.\" The upper painting is nearing completion. It's called \"Explain\" or \"Plain\" or some such. The lower one is titled \"Dinner in Trenton,\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paintings"","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\/04\/studio-2014-3-20.jpg?fit=444%2C657&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3406,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/in-the-studio-33014\/","url_meta":{"origin":4123,"position":3},"title":"In the studio 3\/30\/14","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a photo of some recent work. The top painting is my son John aboard The Betty Jane. I applied paint to the large, middle painting or the first time yesterday. I spent the two previous days working on the drawing exclusively. It's called Dinner in Trenton. The bottom\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bio"","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\/03\/studio-2014-3-30.jpg?fit=444%2C550&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5252,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/in-the-studio-71115\/","url_meta":{"origin":4123,"position":4},"title":"In the studio 7\/11\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished Dinner in Trenton this morning. \u00a0Today's session was the 20th. \u00a0Dinner in Trenton is 40\" x 56.\" \u00a0The ground was a little flat; I found myself fighting against it at times. I enjoyed painting the still-life immensely. The arrangement was interesting and sometimes it's just pure fun to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "aesthetics"","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\/2015\/07\/studio-2015-7-11.jpg?fit=500%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4362,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/in-the-studio-1192014\/","url_meta":{"origin":4123,"position":5},"title":"In the studio 11\/9\/2014","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I started the over-painting on The News\u00a0this morning.\u00a0The News is 44\" x 60.\" I haven't put brush to it for several weeks while I waited for it to dry. I do a lot of layers and bad things happen if new layers are put over still-wet ones. This is one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paintings"","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\/11\/studio-2014-11-9.jpg?fit=466%2C659&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gw6F-14v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}