{"id":7022,"date":"2017-04-16T21:08:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2017-04-16T21:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:08:31","slug":"studio-journal-41517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/studio-journal-41517\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio journal 4\/15\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last two days hammering the armor on the middle-lower painting. (Painters will know what I mean.) &nbsp;It&rsquo;s not done but it&rsquo;s getting there.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7021\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16-300x273.gif?resize=300%2C273\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?resize=600%2C545&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?resize=768%2C698&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?resize=560%2C509&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?resize=260%2C236&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?resize=160%2C145&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/cleveland-museum-of-art\/\" class=\"template-2\"><span class=\"cta\">Read more<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Cleveland Museum of Art Opens Renovations<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The small painting is for me. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s a painting of my son John and I&rsquo;ll never sell it. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s not finished either but I&nbsp;managed a good session with it today after a long layoff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the last two days hammering the armor on the middle-lower painting. (Painters will know what I mean.) &nbsp;It&rsquo;s not done but it&rsquo;s getting there. Read moreCleveland Museum of Art Opens RenovationsThe small painting is for me. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s a painting of my son John and I&rsquo;ll never sell it. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s not finished either but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7021,"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":[208,6,19,113],"tags":[271,56],"class_list":["post-7022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-paintings","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\/2017\/04\/studio-2017-4-16.gif?fit=800%2C727&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5772,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/in-the-studio-2116\/","url_meta":{"origin":7022,"position":0},"title":"In the studio 2\/1\/16","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I worked on the two small painting in the upper-right. The portrait is based on a photo I took of a friend in Princeton. It's a very poor photo--underexposed and out of focus. In the photo, the background is a formless, dark mass. I'm having fun making up the details.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/studio-2016-2-1.jpg?fit=666%2C515&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/studio-2016-2-1.jpg?fit=666%2C515&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/studio-2016-2-1.jpg?fit=666%2C515&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1575,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/in-the-studio-472013\/","url_meta":{"origin":7022,"position":1},"title":"In the Studio 4\/7\/2013","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a batch of some recent work. The large painting--'The Conversation'--is 66\" high. It's not far from being finished (knock wood). The smaller paintings are Betty Jane paintings, that is, paintings of people aboard my boat--The Betty Jane. They are also examples of paintings on canvas board. Treated properly,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"studio-4-7-2013","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/studio-4-7-2013.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4587,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/in-the-studio-1-18-2015\/","url_meta":{"origin":7022,"position":2},"title":"In the studio 1-18-2015","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"January 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Main Street #2 is on the old easel in front of some\u00a0unfinished paintings. One of the challenges (and pleasures) of Main Street #2 is the large number of figures in the space--14. Although the painting is largish, 40\" x 56,\" the figures range from small scale to very small scale.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Paintings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Paintings","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/paintings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/studio-2015-1-18.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7268,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/turpentine-diaries-82717\/","url_meta":{"origin":7022,"position":3},"title":"Turpentine diaries 8\/27\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The finished painting on the floor in this photo, Dare, is another painting of my son Keith standing in front of an earlier painting with him as the subject. \u00a0Dare is 24\" x 30.\" The large, unfinished painting on the easel, Picnic, is the last painting from my batch of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bio","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/bio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/studio-2017-8-27.jpg?fit=800%2C744&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/studio-2017-8-27.jpg?fit=800%2C744&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/studio-2017-8-27.jpg?fit=800%2C744&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/studio-2017-8-27.jpg?fit=800%2C744&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4362,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/in-the-studio-1192014\/","url_meta":{"origin":7022,"position":4},"title":"In the studio 11\/9\/2014","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I started the over-painting on The News\u00a0this morning.\u00a0The News is 44\" x 60.\" I haven't put brush to it for several weeks while I waited for it to dry. I do a lot of layers and bad things happen if new layers are put over still-wet ones. This is one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Paintings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Paintings","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/paintings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/studio-2014-11-9.jpg?fit=466%2C659&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":67,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/in-the-studio-oct-14-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":7022,"position":5},"title":"In the Studio Oct. 14 2012","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"October 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Another lifelong habit I have is working on several--sometimes very many--painting simultaneously. I will put a painting aside to be taken up later any number of times. I might work on a painting a dozen times or more. 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