{"id":5454,"date":"2015-09-28T11:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5454"},"modified":"2015-09-28T11:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:32:44","slug":"finished-graduation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/finished-graduation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished ‘Graduation Day’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished Graduation Day<\/em> yesterday. Graduation Day<\/em> is 42″ x 56.”  Twice before I thought I was approaching the finishing session only to run out of steam. But yesterday’s morning session went well, so I was able to finish it.<\/p>\n

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

I’ve been working on paintings in which the scale of the figures varies. Graduation Day’s<\/em> progression is pretty smooth from front to back; near to far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished Graduation Day yesterday. Graduation Day is 42″ x 56.”  Twice before I thought I was approaching the finishing session only to run out of steam. But yesterday’s morning session went well, so I was able to finish it. I’ve been working on paintings in which the scale of the figures varies. Graduation Day’s progression […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5450,"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":[6,24,1],"tags":[9,271],"class_list":["post-5454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-uncategorized","tag-paintings-2","tag-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/grad-day-fini.jpg?fit=500%2C394&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5439,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/in-the-studio-92015\/","url_meta":{"origin":5454,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 9\/20\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"September 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Graduation Day is almost done. 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