{"id":5273,"date":"2015-07-19T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T01:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2015-07-19T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T01:05:29","slug":"in-the-studio-71915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/in-the-studio-71915\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 7\/19\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been preparing canvases (stretching, applying gesso and toned grounds) and doing a lot of drawing. I thought Graduation Day<\/em> was ready for the end game several times but I was wrong. It’s close now.  Some things that bothered me have been worked out (no, I won’t tell).<\/p>\n

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The unfinished ‘Graduation’ on the easel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow, it’s back to drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been preparing canvases (stretching, applying gesso and toned grounds) and doing a lot of drawing. I thought Graduation Day was ready for the end game several times but I was wrong. It’s close now.  Some things that bothered me have been worked out (no, I won’t tell). Tomorrow, it’s back to drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5271,"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":[6,19,1],"tags":[9,271,56],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","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\/2015\/07\/studio-2015-7-19.jpg?fit=500%2C694&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4048,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/in-the-studio-83114\/","url_meta":{"origin":5273,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 8\/31\/14","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had two more session with this painting since I last posted an update. 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