{"id":8656,"date":"2019-12-01T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2019-12-01T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:34:08","slug":"scale-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/scale-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about how scale affects paint handling. A figure on a 6-inch canvas is painted differently than the same figure on a 6-foot canvas. Pretty straightforward but a lot of artists get stuck in a ‘one size fits all’ approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s also another way that scale determines my approach–figure scale. The main figures in the painting on the floor, Lenses<\/em>, are very near lifesize. The other figures grow smaller as they move away from us, the viewer. There are 23 figures in this 56″ x 40″ painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The larger figures recieve more detailed treatment than those in the background. It is a waste of time to attempt the same detail for the background figures. My job here is to capture the figure’s character in the most efficient way possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The top painting in the photo, The Entertainer<\/em>, while nearly the same size as Lenses<\/em>, constrains the figures in a much narrower range. No figure approaches lifesize. Over-much detail would be lost on these figures but they still require closer treatment than the background figures in Lenses<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I worked on both of these unfinished paintings on this gloomy December day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I wrote about how scale affects paint handling. A figure on a 6-inch canvas is painted differently than the same figure on a 6-foot canvas. Pretty straightforward but a lot of artists get stuck in a ‘one size fits all’ approach. There’s also another way that scale determines my approach–figure scale. 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