{"id":7470,"date":"2017-11-20T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7470"},"modified":"2017-11-20T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:03:00","slug":"turpentine-journal-11-19-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/turpentine-journal-11-19-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine journal 11\/19\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upsidedown<\/em>. It’s useful to look at your paintings in mirrors or upsidedown, as I’ve down here.  The old rule-of-thumb maintains that a painting should be balanced when looked at normally and<\/em> in a mirror.  That old rule-of-thumb still holds as far as I’m concerned.  Three Women in Sandals<\/em>, part of the Playhouse Square series, looks OK upsidedown; there are no surprises.<\/p>\n

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

For today’s session, I am once again using RGH’s extra-fine flake white.  I had been using RGH’s flake white ground in walnut oil and I liked it. Their extra-fine white is ground in safflower oil.<\/p>\n

Three Women in Sandals<\/em> is locked in a good place but several things still bug me.  No, I won’t tell you what they are.  Once I can satisfy myself regarding those issues, I can finish the painting quickly.  We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upsidedown. It’s useful to look at your paintings in mirrors or upsidedown, as I’ve down here.  The old rule-of-thumb maintains that a painting should be balanced when looked at normally and in a mirror.  That old rule-of-thumb still holds as far as I’m concerned.  Three Women in Sandals, part of the Playhouse Square series, looks OK […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7468,"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":[6,24,19,343,1],"tags":[243,56],"class_list":["post-7470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-turpentine-diaries","category-uncategorized","tag-playhouse-square-series","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-19.png?fit=800%2C777&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7084,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/studio-journal-52117\/","url_meta":{"origin":7470,"position":0},"title":"Studio journal 5\/21\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I was able to spend time with this painting yesterday, working all over it. 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