{"id":5439,"date":"2015-09-20T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:17:13","slug":"in-the-studio-92015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/in-the-studio-92015\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 9\/20\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduation Day<\/em> is almost done. I teed it up today for the finish, but only shot par. I have to beat par–come on. Some things still bug me; the purple dress for one, and a couple of other things too.<\/p>\n

I like painting cars.  There are two in Graduation Day<\/em>. I am planning another painting that is about the same size as Graduation Day,<\/em> and it has several cars. Two, I think.<\/p>\n

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The unfinished ‘Graduation Day’ on the easel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Finishing paintings is its own discipline. Sometimes I’m tight and I try not to make mistakes. Whenever I’m defensive like that, I’m not at my best. Other times, things perk along and it’s like playing–free and easy. Today’s session was like that but but I ran out of time. I got tiered before I was finished and had to put the brush down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graduation Day is almost done. I teed it up today for the finish, but only shot par. I have to beat par–come on. Some things still bug me; the purple dress for one, and a couple of other things too. I like painting cars.  There are two in Graduation Day. I am planning another painting that is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5438,"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],"tags":[20,50,271,56],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","tag-easel","tag-painting-material","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\/09\/studio-2015-9-20.jpg?fit=500%2C347&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3712,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/in-the-studio-6152104\/","url_meta":{"origin":5439,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 6\/15\/2104","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"June 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"After getting back from my short trip to New York city last night, I was back in the studio at 5:00 A.M. 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