{"id":7733,"date":"2018-03-18T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T22:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7733"},"modified":"2018-03-18T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T22:35:16","slug":"turpentine-diaries-3-18-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/turpentine-diaries-3-18-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 3\/18\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a lot of trouble this morning with the painting on the floor, Down on Prospect Avenue<\/em>.  Why?  Who knows?  If I could see, I might be able to make good paintings.<\/p>\n

Things perked up after lunch and I made progress.  I think the head of the left-most figure is finished.  I like it a little bit.<\/p>\n

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

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I dragged the recently-finished Girl in a <\/em>Lavendar Dress<\/em> onto the easel for this photo.  I was able to stick to my plan with this painting (keep things simple), which makes me happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a lot of trouble this morning with the painting on the floor, Down on Prospect Avenue.  Why?  Who knows?  If I could see, I might be able to make good paintings. Things perked up after lunch and I made progress.  I think the head of the left-most figure is finished.  I like it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7732,"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":[243,271,56],"class_list":["post-7733","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","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/studio-2018-3-18.png?fit=1200%2C1694&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7268,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/turpentine-diaries-82717\/","url_meta":{"origin":7733,"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":7246,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/turpentine-diaries-81317\/","url_meta":{"origin":7733,"position":1},"title":"Turpentine diaries 8\/13\/17","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"August 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished the small painting sitting on the floor this morning. 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