{"id":5056,"date":"2015-05-05T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:39:43","slug":"finished-garth-and-daryl-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/finished-garth-and-daryl-talking\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished ‘Garth and Daryl Talking’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got Garth and Daryl Talking<\/em> to the ‘finishing stage’ and lite the rocket. I determined to finish the painting in a single day, but after a day-long marathon it wasn’t done, so I followed with a half-day session and finally finished it.<\/p>\n

Garth and Daryl Talking<\/em> is 42″ x 68″. I build my own stretchers for any painting above 60″ on a side. The stretchers for this painting are built from 2″ x 2’s” and half-inch trim strips. It’s very sturdy and there is no danger of the canvas sagging onto the cross braces.<\/p>\n

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My thinking about subject matter has evolved. When I started out, I was rather blase about it. My position could be characterized as ‘modern;’ that is, more a question than a firm position–“What is a subject?” I’d shrug ironically. Monet, sitting by his dying wife’s sickbed, was horrified when he caught himself dispassionately studying the tones of death on his wife’s face. I think part of every artist is with Monet in that room, engrossed by the play of light, color, and tone regardless of the situation.<\/p>\n

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From this viewpoint, Garth and Daryl Talking<\/em> could just as easily be titled Study in Green and Blue<\/em> or some such. Under the influence of this aesthetic view, I dabbled in some things I no longer believe to be fruitful. For a short period, I did some near-pornographic paintings (I was young, OK?), which–by the way–sold very well. Luckily, the money didn’t change my view and I soon abandoned that stuff.<\/p>\n

An important impetus for this painting is to paint figures in nature. But for various reasons I hit a wall and set it aside for long periods. My studio journal indicates that the final sessions were the twenty-third and twenty-fourth. Even given the painting’s largish size that’s slow even for me. Normally, a painting this size would be done in half that many sessions.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes I become fixated on problems, but painting isn’t problem solving per se<\/em>. Another way of saying this is that every painting is a set of problems. If problem solving is a general and universal aspect of painting, then focusing on it does not add any insight or special knowledge about painting. By analogy, if you plan a camping trip to the Rockies, you’d rent a 4×4, buy the proper camping gear, and hiking boots, etc, Afterwards, when I ask about your trip, I’d be disappointed if all you told me was where you rented your car and bought your super-lightweight tent, when I wanted to hear about your trip–your adventure.<\/p>\n

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I finally got Garth and Daryl Talking to the ‘finishing stage’ and lite the rocket. I determined to finish the painting in a single day, but after a day-long marathon it wasn’t done, so I followed with a half-day session and finally finished it. Garth and Daryl Talking is 42″ x 68″. 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