{"id":5869,"date":"2016-03-06T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2016-03-06T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T02:24:10","slug":"in-the-studio-3616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/in-the-studio-3616\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 3\/6\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Break<\/em> is 40″ x 50″. I stretched a lot of 40″ x 50″ canvases last year and The Break<\/em> is one of them. Some of the background is done, but the painting still has a long way to go.<\/p>\n

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

My medium dries very quickly, as I’ve written before<\/a>. Its only limitation is that its fast drying time can make working on large areas, such as the ground in this painting, challenging. That is, smooth transitions are more difficult with fast-drying paint than the normal slow-drying oil. One solution is to add some balsam, like Canadian balsam, to the turpentine. It retards drying time just a little, but it’s enough to ensure smooth transitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Break is 40″ x 50″. I stretched a lot of 40″ x 50″ canvases last year and The Break is one of them. Some of the background is done, but the painting still has a long way to go. My medium dries very quickly, as I’ve written before. Its only limitation is that its fast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5868,"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":[251,208,24,19,113],"tags":[307,306,271,56],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics","category-materials","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-tips_tricks","tag-balsam","tag-painting-medium","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\/03\/studio-2016-3-6.jpg?fit=666%2C822&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7573,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/painting-nuts-and-bolts\/","url_meta":{"origin":5869,"position":0},"title":"Painting nuts and bolts","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"My homemade palette has provided good service for several years. 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My medium is very drying, which I like immensely. \u00a0I use it everyday but it has one minor flaw. \u00a0When I'm painting a large area, my medium is sometimes too drying. \u00a0One method I use to address this is to add some balsam, like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "materials"","block_context":{"text":"materials","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/materials\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/turp-flavor.jpg?fit=666%2C478&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/turp-flavor.jpg?fit=666%2C478&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/turp-flavor.jpg?fit=666%2C478&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1223,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/turpentine-tip\/","url_meta":{"origin":5869,"position":3},"title":"Turpentine Tip","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Put some Venice turpentine\u00a0 into your everyday turpentine (10:1 turpentine to Venice turpentine). 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