{"id":5862,"date":"2016-02-28T21:10:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T02:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2016-02-28T21:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T02:10:48","slug":"in-the-studio-22816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/in-the-studio-22816\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 2\/28\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

With over 30 figures in its 44″ x 60″ space, Picnic<\/em> wants to careen into confusion. Which I do not want, so we argue. The central figure, by turning her back to us, adds her voice to the argument. That’s alright. I’m not off-put by rambunctious offspring and I am patient.<\/p>\n

\"'Picnic'\"<\/a>
‘Picnic’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve always been suspicious of accidents, accidents of light and texture. But one man’s accident is another man’s defining detail. Picnic<\/em> has a lot of accidents of light, sometimes revealing objects. other times hiding them. It’s fun to paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With over 30 figures in its 44″ x 60″ space, Picnic wants to careen into confusion. Which I do not want, so we argue. The central figure, by turning her back to us, adds her voice to the argument. That’s alright. I’m not off-put by rambunctious offspring and I am patient. I’ve always been suspicious of accidents, accidents of light […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5863,"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":[6,24,19,1],"tags":[271,56],"class_list":["post-5862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-uncategorized","tag-studio","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/studio-2016-2-28.jpg?fit=666%2C610&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5576,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/in-the-studio-102515\/","url_meta":{"origin":5862,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 10\/25\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"October 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"After drawing this morning, I worked on Picnic. 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