{"id":5003,"date":"2015-04-15T12:31:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2015-04-15T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:31:28","slug":"playhouse-square-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/playhouse-square-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Playhouse Square I"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am working on the drawings for my new series–Playhouse Square–which I wrote about earlier<\/a>. The series is based on photographs I’ve taken of Cleveland’s Playhouse Square. I wrote before about how I planned to use figures from different days in the same locations, about how I plan to use the entire Square and its inhabitants as my studio–so to say.<\/p>\n

The drawing for the 48″ x 60″ Playhouse Square 1<\/em> is taking some time, and I’m not ready to show it. The composition combines figures from three photographs; two taken on different days along Euclid Avenue in the Square. Ironically, one figure is from a photograph taken not in Cleveland but in New York. I took a photo of this figure outside Penn Station. You can see the outline where I cut him out and pasted him into the composition.<\/p>\n

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For some reason, I like this figure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

There is something about this figure I like. I’ve tried to work him into several paintings before getting him into this one. He’s self-absorbed yet alert. This won’t be the last time I use him in a painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am working on the drawings for my new series–Playhouse Square–which I wrote about earlier. The series is based on photographs I’ve taken of Cleveland’s Playhouse Square. I wrote before about how I planned to use figures from different days in the same locations, about how I plan to use the entire Square and its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5004,"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":[10,6,24,1],"tags":[249,56,250],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-uncategorized","tag-playhouse-square","tag-unfinished-paintings","tag-using-photographs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/penn-station.jpg?fit=400%2C948&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4854,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/playhouse-square\/","url_meta":{"origin":5003,"position":0},"title":"Playhouse Square","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I started a series of paintings early in the winter called Playhouse Square. 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