{"id":7000,"date":"2017-04-02T20:59:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2017-04-02T20:59:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:59:50","slug":"studio-journal-4217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/studio-journal-4217\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio journal 4\/2\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, here is a shot of recent stuff.  I really like the surface on the new painting, Grand Army of the Republic Highway<\/em>.  The gray tone of the ground, which can be seen throughout the painting, is just right: not too dark or too light.  The surface is nice and smooth, which a big positive for me.<\/p>\n

Today’s session was just my second one.  Grand Army of the Republic Highway<\/em> has a long way to go.<\/p>\n

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

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The other painting (on the left), Playhouse Square Visit<\/em>, is, as the name implies, part of the Playhouse Square series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, here is a shot of recent stuff.  I really like the surface on the new painting, Grand Army of the Republic Highway.  The gray tone of the ground, which can be seen throughout the painting, is just right: not too dark or too light.  The surface is nice and smooth, which a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":6999,"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":[208,6,24,19],"tags":[271,56],"class_list":["post-7000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","tag-studio","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-2.jpg?fit=800%2C524&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7176,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/turpentine-diaries-7917\/","url_meta":{"origin":7000,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine diaries 7\/9\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Grand Army of the Republic Highway is part of a series called Main Street, which is about, well, Main Street in out town. \u00a0The town is a vacation destination and things happen downtown all of the time--festivals, street parties, concerts. 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