{"id":6184,"date":"2016-06-19T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2016-06-19T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T19:36:30","slug":"in-the-studio-61916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/in-the-studio-61916\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 6\/19\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am into the overpainting phase with Parade<\/em>. although the surface is still very matte.  No part is exactly done.<\/p>\n

\"'Parade'<\/a>
‘Parade’ on the easel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday’s morning session went poorly.  I couldn’t see.  It happens.  Sometimes when I take up a painting that I struggled with previously, the solution is obvious.  How could I have missed it?  When artists talk about training their eye, it’s literally true.  In this sense art is like sport or exercise.  The more you train, the easier it is.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Looking at nature and looking at paintings.  I visit art museums nearly once a week.  I study the paintings over and over; it’s never tedious or tiresome–it refreshes me.<\/p>\n

When I’m not seeing, I can carefully and deliberately mix a color and it will be wrong.   On the other hand, when I am seeing, I can randomly drag the brush across the palette and the resulting color will work perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am into the overpainting phase with Parade. although the surface is still very matte.  No part is exactly done. Yesterday’s morning session went poorly.  I couldn’t see.  It happens.  Sometimes when I take up a painting that I struggled with previously, the solution is obvious.  How could I have missed it?  When artists talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6183,"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":[6,24,19,113],"tags":[271,56],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-tips_tricks","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\/06\/studio-2016-6-19.jpg?fit=888%2C661&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5543,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/in-the-studio-101815\/","url_meta":{"origin":6184,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 10\/18\/15","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"October 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It took awhile for Parade to get going. 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