{"id":8043,"date":"2018-08-18T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2018-08-18T16:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:01:19","slug":"turpentine-diaries-8-18-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/turpentine-diaries-8-18-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 8\/18\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am keeping everything simple and direct with The Woman in the Red Pants<\/em>. Overworking can be death to a painting.  On the other hand, I have a horror of the blast, fire, shoot, throw, and fling army of ala prima painters who’ve taken over the Art World, at least the ‘figurative’ part of it.  I try to stay as far away from that army as I can; it suffocates me.  <\/p>\n

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

I wouldn’t mind if my paintings took forever and betrayed no spontaneity.  Both extremes–everything spontaneous, nothing spontaneous–are equally valid, which means neither is a core quality in art making.<\/p>\n

The Art muse is its own (strict) master: experience is no help and can become the enemy of freshness (do not equate spontaneity with freshness).<\/p>\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

The Woman in the Red Pants<\/em> is 36″ x 48.”  Today’s session was the 4th with this unfinished painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am keeping everything simple and direct with The Woman in the Red Pants. Overworking can be death to a painting.  On the other hand, I have a horror of the blast, fire, shoot, throw, and fling army of ala prima painters who’ve taken over the Art World, at least the ‘figurative’ part of it.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":8042,"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":[10,208,6,24,19,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-studio","category-turpentine-diaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/studio-2018-8-18.jpg?fit=800%2C1058&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7973,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/turpentine-diaries-5-27-18\/","url_meta":{"origin":8043,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine diaries 5\/27\/18","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"May 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Woman in Red Pants is not over-large so I finished the underpainting, shown here, in 2 sessions. 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