{"id":8506,"date":"2019-07-21T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2019-07-21T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:05:09","slug":"turpentine-diaries-7-21-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/turpentine-diaries-7-21-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Turpentine diaries 7\/21\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first day painting on a new design is always exiting. True, paintings almost never live up to the vision in my mind’s eye, but I start every new painting with the same anticipation. I can’t wait to get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This photo shows The Green Umbrella<\/em> after a four-hour painting session. There’s a long way to go, eh? I am sharing this because when I was youg I was keen to see how artists worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The drawing is completed and fixed with varnish. I started with the darker tones, keeping them simple warm and cold tones–no local color. The ground is a neutral tan; contrast it to the white wall behind the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This painting moves away from the large-scale figures I’ve been working with lately. Smaller than life figures ( The Green Umbrella<\/em> is 40″ x 50″) were<\/g> in a lot of my paintings a year or so back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first day painting on a new design is always exiting. True, paintings almost never live up to the vision in my mind’s eye, but I start every new painting with the same anticipation. I can’t wait to get started! This photo shows The Green Umbrella after a four-hour painting session. There’s a long way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":8505,"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":[139,208,6,24,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio","category-materials","category-paintings","category-shop_talk","category-turpentine-diaries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/studio-20019-7-21.jpg?fit=1200%2C905&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8502,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/turpentine-diaries-7-14-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":8506,"position":0},"title":"Turpentine diaries 7\/14\/19","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"July 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In recent days I've spent time preparing new paintings, that is, drawing and finishing designs. 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