{"id":5122,"date":"2015-05-10T16:40:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:58:10","slug":"in-the-studio-51015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/in-the-studio-51015\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 5\/10\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&rsquo;s painting session was my&nbsp;15th on <em>The News<\/em>. I finished the painting and took&nbsp;a short break, celebrating with a cup of coffee. Returning to the studio, I immediately realized the last thing I painted was too strong and needed&nbsp;healing. &nbsp;I worked another 45 minutes and set the brush down and went upstairs for a cup of tea. This time on returning to the studio my eye was satisfied and I signed the painting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5121\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/in-the-studio-51015\/studio-2015-5-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5121\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5121\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/studio-2015-5-10.jpg?resize=500%2C697\" alt=\"Completed this morning, 'The News'\" width=\"500\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/studio-2015-5-10.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/studio-2015-5-10.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/studio-2015-5-10.jpg?resize=260%2C362&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/studio-2015-5-10.jpg?resize=160%2C223&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Completed this morning, &lsquo;The News&rsquo;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been known to finish a painting only to&nbsp;take it up again later. But this painting went smoothly from first to last, and the finishing sessions were not difficult or stressful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&rsquo;s painting session was my&nbsp;15th on The News. I finished the painting and took&nbsp;a short break, celebrating with a cup of coffee. Returning to the studio, I immediately realized the last thing I painted was too strong and needed&nbsp;healing. &nbsp;I worked another 45 minutes and set the brush down and went upstairs for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5121,"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":[6,19],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-studio","tag-paintings-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/studio-2015-5-10.jpg?fit=500%2C697&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":5122,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 5\/3\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I build paintings slowly. 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On the Square is\u00a0part of my Playhouse Square series. There are 15 figures in the 48\" x 60\" painting (16 if you count a figure reflected in a window).\u00a0I've spent most of the past two weeks working on this painting.\u00a0I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;materials&quot;","block_context":{"text":"materials","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/materials\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/studio-2016-1-4.jpg?fit=800%2C636&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/studio-2016-1-4.jpg?fit=800%2C636&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/studio-2016-1-4.jpg?fit=800%2C636&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/studio-2016-1-4.jpg?fit=800%2C636&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2512,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/in-the-studio-8182013\/","url_meta":{"origin":5122,"position":3},"title":"In the Studio 8\/18\/2013","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A favorite chair. I have used a white lawn chair in my paintings several times. I like its sensuous shape and the matte color provides an interesting contrast to the objects around it. The two paintings on the lower-right show my children with the chair, Jane on the far-right, Keith\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"In the studio 8\/18\/2013","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/studio-8-18-2013.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/studio-8-18-2013.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/studio-8-18-2013.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5576,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/in-the-studio-102515\/","url_meta":{"origin":5122,"position":4},"title":"In the studio 10\/25\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"October 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"After drawing this morning, I worked on Picnic. 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I went back and forth several times about this painting.\u00a0The central figure's back to the viewer has the\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\/2015\/10\/studio-2015-10-25.jpg?fit=600%2C539&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/studio-2015-10-25.jpg?fit=600%2C539&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/studio-2015-10-25.jpg?fit=600%2C539&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":67,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/in-the-studio-oct-14-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":5122,"position":5},"title":"In the Studio Oct. 14 2012","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"October 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Another lifelong habit I have is working on several--sometimes very many--painting simultaneously. 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