{"id":5576,"date":"2015-10-25T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5576"},"modified":"2015-10-25T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:18:24","slug":"in-the-studio-102515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/in-the-studio-102515\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 10\/25\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

After drawing this morning, I worked on Picnic<\/em>. In addition to the four main figures, there are 27 other figures, or parts of figures, in the background. I’m having fun with all those figures.<\/p>\n

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

I went back and forth several times about this painting. The central figure’s back to the viewer has the potential to take the painting in a direction that I’m not interested in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After drawing this morning, I worked on Picnic. In addition to the four main figures, there are 27 other figures, or parts of figures, in the background. I’m having fun with all those figures. I went back and forth several times about this painting. The central figure’s back to the viewer has the potential to take the painting in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5577,"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":[6,24,19],"tags":[271,56],"class_list":["post-5576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","tag-studio","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/studio-2015-10-25.jpg?fit=600%2C539&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4587,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/in-the-studio-1-18-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":5576,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 1-18-2015","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Main Street #2 is on the old easel in front of some\u00a0unfinished paintings. 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