{"id":7325,"date":"2017-09-24T20:56:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T00:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2017-09-25T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:57:22","slug":"turpentine-diaries-92417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/turpentine-diaries-92417\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 9\/24\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unfinished painting The Press<\/em> is 40″ x 50.”  I’ve used RGH’s walnut-ground flake white for a couple of weeks and I like it more and more.  It keeps its body even when thinned to the constancy of gouache, such as the white shirts in the painting.<\/p>\n

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

I plan to write about preparing canvases soon.  I primed a large painting (44″ x 60″) with Williamsburg’s oil ground yesterday.  I’ve used that product before with happy results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The unfinished painting The Press is 40″ x 50.”  I’ve used RGH’s walnut-ground flake white for a couple of weeks and I like it more and more.  It keeps its body even when thinned to the constancy of gouache, such as the white shirts in the painting. Read moreCleveland Museum of Art Opens RenovationsI plan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7320,"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":[208,6,19,343],"tags":[50,9,271,56],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-paintings","category-studio","category-turpentine-diaries","tag-painting-material","tag-paintings-2","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\/09\/studio-2017-9-24.png?fit=800%2C1088&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7268,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/turpentine-diaries-82717\/","url_meta":{"origin":7325,"position":0},"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 "Bio"","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":7238,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/turpentine-diaries-8617\/","url_meta":{"origin":7325,"position":1},"title":"Turpentine diaries 8\/6\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Delegate is 36\" x 48\". \u00a0It still has a way to go. \u00a0It's another painting with an annoying surface. 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