{"id":5821,"date":"2016-02-23T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:52:07","slug":"in-the-studio-22116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/in-the-studio-22116\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 2\/21\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several busy days in the studio. \u00a0I worked on 10-12 paintings over the past few days, including Sunday Parade<\/em>. \u00a0Sunday Parade<\/em>\u00a0is finally locked into a good place (even though I still haven’t settled on its name). It felt like I was pushing it uphill for a long time. \u00a0I’m on the downward side now.<\/p>\n

Artists and writers writing about art often\u00a0talk such rot–almost more than any other field. \u00a0Much of what is written about art is thinly-disguised marketing. \u00a0For many, this isn’t a bug but a feature. \u00a0You won’t read about\u00a0“totalizers totalizing the totality<\/em>” here.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0sometimes I make little discoveries or understand some small aspect about art making. \u00a0One such is this:<\/p>\n

The eye reads something painted over something else as closer to it.<\/em> \u00a0This tiny discovery is extremely useful to know when you are painting areas with a lot of tones that are close to each other. \u00a0Ordering them by over-under adds significantly to the clarity of such passages.<\/p>\n

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The unfinished ‘Sunday’ or ‘Sunday Parade’ or ‘Parade ‘ (I can’t make up my mind) on the easel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To change the subject. \u00a0I have used\u00a0Klean Strip OMS (odorless mineral spirits<\/a>) for some time. \u00a0When I grabbed some the other day at the hardware store, I must not have been paying attention. \u00a0I poured the day’s portion\u00a0and\u00a0was shocked by how milky it was. \u00a0Unlike the usual water-clear OMS, this stuff is filmy like an acrylic medium. \u00a0I mistakenly purchased Klean Strips “green” version of OMS.<\/p>\n

Hating to waste money and not having any of my usual OMS on-hand, I tried the stuff. \u00a0Yeech! \u00a0The paint spreads and loses all character. It’s useless for painting. \u00a0 For my purposes, it’s expensive paint thinner. \u00a0The stuff does<\/em> contain odorless mineral spirits (probably a\u00a0minute portion) which is a petroleum distillate, and God know what else. \u00a0They claim\u00a0it\u00a0is “inflammable.” \u00a0 But\u00a0it’s poison.<\/p>\n

The fumes of typical mineral spirits, or paint thinner, bother me. I only ever use it outside and then just to clean brushes or strip paint–house paint. \u00a0For painting on paintings I use turpentine (which does not bother me) and OMS. The trend continues that so-called ‘green’ things work less well than the things they replace. \u00a0I can’t think of a single art-related material where its green ‘upgrade’ wasn’t really a downgrade in terms of performance and usefulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several busy days in the studio. \u00a0I worked on 10-12 paintings over the past few days, including Sunday Parade. \u00a0Sunday Parade\u00a0is finally locked into a good place (even though I still haven’t settled on its name). It felt like I was pushing it uphill for a long time. \u00a0I’m on the downward side now. 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