{"id":7131,"date":"2017-06-25T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T01:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2017-06-25T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T01:58:58","slug":"turpentine-diaries-62517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/turpentine-diaries-62517\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 6\/25\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Girl in the Lavender Dress<\/em>, another painting in the Playhouse Square series<\/a>, is nearly finished and today’s was only the sixth session, which is fast for me. <\/p>\n

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

You can see in the right background two canvases that I recently prepared.  Both are 36″ x 48,” which is the same size as Girl in the Lavender Dress<\/em>.  <\/p>\n

I ordered some more paint from RGH.  I like their extra-fine flake white.  I also ordered more chromium oxide green, which is an important color on my palette. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Girl in the Lavender Dress, another painting in the Playhouse Square series, is nearly finished and today’s was only the sixth session, which is fast for me.  Read moreCleveland Museum of Art Opens RenovationsYou can see in the right background two canvases that I recently prepared.  Both are 36″ x 48,” which is the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7130,"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":[10,208,6,24,19,343],"tags":[243,271,56],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-turpentine-diaries","tag-playhouse-square-series","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\/06\/studio-2017-6-25.jpg?fit=800%2C565&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7723,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/turpentine-diaries-3-11-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":7131,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine diaries 3\/11\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I caught a cold or some such yesterday and, under its influence, I didn't write my planned-for post.\u00a0 Today, I am still under the weather but have roused myself to write a few lines. 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