{"id":8648,"date":"2019-11-30T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8648"},"modified":"2019-11-30T21:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T02:21:52","slug":"proper-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/proper-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Proper scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scale plays a big part in how I handle a painting. By scale I mean the size of the canvas. A single figure on a 6-foot canvas requires a different treatment than the same figure would on a 6-inch canvas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t understand that early in my career, but as I worked on paintings up and down the size scale, I came to appreciate the significant part this plays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

A lot of artists fail to take scale into consideration. This is especially true for those who believe that real<\/em> artists only use big bristle brushes, and who are surprised when they make a muddle of small-format paintings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists, like writers, can get into ruts. Changing scale is one way to get out of a rut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Agamemnon and Orestes<\/em> is on the large-size end of my recent work (44″ x 60″). Most of my similarly-sized work contains many figures in an assortment of scales, although smaller than lifesize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unfinished ‘Agamemnon and Orestes’ on the easel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The painting in the background, Troopers<\/em>, is smaller than Agamemnon and Orestes<\/em> but several of its figures are near-lifesize. I think I’ll go in that direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scale plays a big part in how I handle a painting. By scale I mean the size of the canvas. A single figure on a 6-foot canvas requires a different treatment than the same figure would on a 6-inch canvas. I didn’t understand that early in my career, but as I worked on paintings up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":8647,"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":[208,6,24,19,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/2019\/11\/studio-2019-11-30.jpg?fit=800%2C756&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8656,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/scale-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":8648,"position":0},"title":"Scale again","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"December 1, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, I wrote about how scale affects paint handling. 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