{"id":7905,"date":"2018-04-28T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2018-04-28T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T00:04:18","slug":"turpentine-diaries-4-28-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/turpentine-diaries-4-28-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 4\/28\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo shows my first painting session with Agamemnon and Orestes<\/em>.  I know, I know, a bit high falutin but I am reading Aeschylus’s Eumenides.<\/a>  Agamemnon and Orestes<\/em><\/i> is 44″ x 60.”<\/p>\n

I mentioned that I prefer white grounds these days, but I am always preparing canvases, which means I have some prepared months ago, like this umber-toned canvas.  I prepared this canvas last August.  I’ve frequently used gray, burnt sienna, and raw umber grounds, like this one.<\/p>\n

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Notice the heater in the lower-left?  I turned it off yesterday for the Summer–so I thought.  The high of 45 has me hovering around the heater as I work.<\/p>\n

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Read more<\/span>Smooth Move—Smooth Painting Surfaces<\/span><\/a><\/div>

I’m working on a lot of paintings with figures smaller than life-size, much smaller.  So it’s good to do a painting with figures closer to life-size, as with this painting.  The scale has a tremendous effect on painting, and it’s not much talked about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photo shows my first painting session with Agamemnon and Orestes.  I know, I know, a bit high falutin but I am reading Aeschylus’s Eumenides.  Agamemnon and Orestes is 44″ x 60.” I mentioned that I prefer white grounds these days, but I am always preparing canvases, which means I have some prepared months ago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":7904,"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":[208,6,24,343],"tags":[50,56],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-turpentine-diaries","tag-painting-material","tag-unfinished-paintings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-28.jpg?fit=800%2C1046&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7908,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/turpentine-diaries-4-29-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":7905,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine diaries 4\/29\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"April 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I thought it would be fun to compare Agamemnon and Orestes after the second day to the first day--bottom photo.\u00a0 After the second day, the underpainting is finished.\u00a0 The underpainting is about getting paint on the canvas and not worrying overmuch about details.\u00a0 At 44\" x 60,\" the painting's large\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\/04\/studio-2018-4-29.jpg?fit=800%2C966&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-29.jpg?fit=800%2C966&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-29.jpg?fit=800%2C966&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/studio-2018-4-29.jpg?fit=800%2C966&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8648,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/proper-scale\/","url_meta":{"origin":7905,"position":1},"title":"Proper scale","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"November 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Scale plays a big part in how I handle a painting. 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