{"id":6509,"date":"2016-11-26T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2016-11-26T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T16:59:50","slug":"in-the-studio-112516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/in-the-studio-112516\/","title":{"rendered":"In the studio 11\/25\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"

I worked on Three Women in Sandals<\/em>.  I toyed with calling the painting The Three Graces<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I have always had a hard time settling on names for paintings and the problem seems to be getting worse.  The issue is that one can only use “Portrait of a Woman” or “Portrait of a Man” only a few times before it begins to confuse everyone, including me.  Regardless of the title, I am starting to cotton to this painting.<\/p>\n

Speaking of ‘cotton to,’ I used the phrase in conversation recently and my interlocutor interrupted me to ask what the phrase meant–he had never heard it.  I have always used it, have you heard it?  It means to like someone or something; it’s similar to saying ‘he is starting to warm<\/em> to the situation.’  I was recently reading Joyce’s Ulysses<\/em> and one of Joyce’s characters used the phrase.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>Smooth Move—Smooth Painting Surfaces<\/span><\/a><\/div>

Three Women in Sandals<\/em> is part of the Playhouse Square series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I worked on Three Women in Sandals.  I toyed with calling the painting The Three Graces… Read moreIn the Studio Oct. 14 2012I have always had a hard time settling on names for paintings and the problem seems to be getting worse.  The issue is that one can only use “Portrait of a Woman” or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6504,"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":[24,19,1],"tags":[9,243,271],"class_list":["post-6509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-uncategorized","tag-paintings-2","tag-playhouse-square-series","tag-studio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/studio-2016-11-25.jpg?fit=800%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5738,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/in-the-studio-12416\/","url_meta":{"origin":6509,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 1\/24\/16","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The light today, for once this winter, is good. 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