{"id":5604,"date":"2015-11-07T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2015-11-07T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T21:11:03","slug":"in-the-studio-11715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/in-the-studio-11715\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 11\/7\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the painting ground (surface) isn’t up to snuff paintings take longer. The ground for The Photographer<\/em> is one of the poor ones. A small change in the preparation can have a major effect. I’ll not repeat the same experiment again. It’s taking a long time to get the surface right–sensitive and firm.<\/p>\n

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

I spent the morning drawing on my most recent batch of canvases. There is about 6 canvases in the drawing stage. I got one of them to the painting stage earlier this week. Tomorrow it’s time to start stretching more canvases, two 40″ x 50,” and one 44″ x 60.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the painting ground (surface) isn’t up to snuff paintings take longer. The ground for The Photographer is one of the poor ones. A small change in the preparation can have a major effect. I’ll not repeat the same experiment again. It’s taking a long time to get the surface right–sensitive and firm. I spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5603,"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],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","tag-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/studio-2015-11-7.jpg?fit=600%2C900&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2026,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/drawing-drawing-drawing\/","url_meta":{"origin":5604,"position":0},"title":"Drawing, Drawing, Drawing","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"June 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately, I've spent nearly all my time drawing. 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