{"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":"<p>I had several sessions with this painting, <em>Dinner in Trenton<\/em>, over the past few days. It was the&nbsp;first opportunity to use my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trekell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terkell<\/a>&nbsp;flats;&nbsp;first-rate brushes&ndash;and affordability priced.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4124\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/in-the-studio-92114\/studio-2014-9-21\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4124\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4124\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/studio-2014-9-21.jpg?resize=500%2C655\" alt=\"On the easel, the unfinished 'Dinner in Trenton'\" width=\"500\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/studio-2014-9-21.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/studio-2014-9-21.jpg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/studio-2014-9-21.jpg?resize=260%2C340&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/studio-2014-9-21.jpg?resize=160%2C209&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the easel, the unfinished &lsquo;Dinner in Trenton&rsquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How many more sessions? Hard to say. Working on a large painting (<em>Dinner in Trenton<\/em> is 42&Prime; x 56&Prime;) is a series of calculations. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s easy to make extra work for yourself if you don&rsquo;t pay attention. The idea is to make succeeding layers easier because of solid underlying layers. &nbsp;Things 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&rsquo;s always more to do later.<\/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&rsquo;m talking here about <em>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":"<p>I had several sessions with this painting, Dinner in Trenton, over the past few days. It was the&nbsp;first opportunity to use my new Terkell&nbsp;flats;&nbsp;first-rate brushes&ndash;and affordability priced. How many more sessions? Hard to say. Working on a large painting (Dinner in Trenton is 42&Prime; x 56&Prime;) is a series of calculations. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s easy to make [&hellip;]<\/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_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":[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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"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 &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\/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 &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\/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 &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\/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 &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\/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 &quot;aesthetics&quot;","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. 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