{"id":7699,"date":"2018-02-26T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:21:47","slug":"turpentine-diaries-2-25-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/turpentine-diaries-2-25-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 2\/25\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished Three Women in Sandals<\/em> (I know, I know–a lame name.  Three Women in Sandals<\/em> is another painting in my Playhouse Square series.  It’s 44″ x 60.” \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By now, I’ve created a large number of paintings in the Playhouse Square series and I still plan several more.  I have not exhausted the subject–far from it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished Three Women in Sandals (I know, I know–a lame name.  Three Women in Sandals is another painting in my Playhouse Square series.  It’s 44″ x 60.” By now, I’ve created a large number of paintings in the Playhouse Square series and I still plan several more.  I have not exhausted the subject–far from it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7698,"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":[10,6,19,343],"tags":[243,271],"class_list":["post-7699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland","category-paintings","category-studio","category-turpentine-diaries","tag-playhouse-square-series","tag-studio"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-25.png?fit=800%2C1194&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7470,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/turpentine-journal-11-19-17\/","url_meta":{"origin":7699,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine journal 11\/19\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Upsidedown. It's useful to look at your paintings in mirrors or upsidedown, as I've down here.\u00a0 The old rule-of-thumb maintains that a painting should be balanced when\u00a0looked at normally and in a mirror.\u00a0 That old rule-of-thumb still holds as far as I'm concerned.\u00a0 Three Women in Sandals, part of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paintings"","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\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-19.png?fit=800%2C777&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-19.png?fit=800%2C777&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-19.png?fit=800%2C777&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-2017-11-19.png?fit=800%2C777&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7224,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/turpentine-diaries-72317\/","url_meta":{"origin":7699,"position":1},"title":"Turpentine diaries 7\/23\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Break is finally done. I struggled with the surface from the beginning which resulted in more sessions than usual. \u00a0I won't bore you with the details; the surface isn't awful--it's perfectly\u00a0sound--but it's not to my liking. \u00a0Not nearly smooth enough and like any rough-surfaced canvas, it eats brushes. \u00a0I like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paintings"","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\/2017\/07\/studio-2017-7-23.jpg?fit=800%2C942&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/studio-2017-7-23.jpg?fit=800%2C942&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/studio-2017-7-23.jpg?fit=800%2C942&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/studio-2017-7-23.jpg?fit=800%2C942&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7131,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/turpentine-diaries-62517\/","url_meta":{"origin":7699,"position":2},"title":"Turpentine diaries 6\/25\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"June 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"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.\u00a0 You can see in the right background two canvases that I recently\u00a0prepared. \u00a0Both are 36\" x 48,\" which is the same size\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Cleveland"","block_context":{"text":"Cleveland","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/category\/cleveland\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/studio-2017-6-25.jpg?fit=800%2C565&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/studio-2017-6-25.jpg?fit=800%2C565&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/studio-2017-6-25.jpg?fit=800%2C565&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/studio-2017-6-25.jpg?fit=800%2C565&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7685,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/turpentine-diaries-2-18-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":7699,"position":3},"title":"Turpentine diaries 2\/18\/20","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"More Playhouse Square work.\u00a0 This one is creatively titled Trip to Playhouse Square.\u00a0 This (still) unfinished painting is 40\" x 50.\"\u00a0 I like the size and recently ordered enough stretchers for 9 paintings sizes 40\" x 52\" and 40 x 56.\" Yesterday, I walked downtown by the lake and someone\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Paintings"","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\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-18.png?fit=800%2C1061&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-18.png?fit=800%2C1061&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-18.png?fit=800%2C1061&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/studio-2018-2-18.png?fit=800%2C1061&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7708,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/turpentine-diaries-3-4-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":7699,"position":4},"title":"Turpentine diaries 3\/4\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"March 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The one thing I dislike about my current studio is that it doesn't have north-facing windows. 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