{"id":4594,"date":"2018-07-18T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:20:16","slug":"preparing-painting-surfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/preparing-painting-surfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Painting Surfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent part of this afternoon preparing painting surfaces for week long painting workshop I&#8217;ll be attending in August with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanabbott.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Abbott<\/a> in VT. I&#8217;m excited about this work shop as I&#8217;ve wanted to study with her for a while now but the timing never worked out. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface1.jpg\" ><img title=\"Brushing on Burnt Sienna Paint, thinned with solvent\" src =\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of canvas with start of a light ground\" width=\"\" height=\"350\"\/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface2.jpg\" ><img title=\"Ground has been rubbed with cloth\" src =\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface2.jpg\" alt=\"Image of finished ground \" width=\"\" height=\"350\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>First I made sure I have wet canvas carriers for the boards and canvases I plan to take. Can&#8217;t carry wet paintings home in the back of a packed car&#8230; Once that was settled, Burnt Sienna paint thinned with solvent was applied to the surface which was then rubbed with a soft rag, leaving this light toning as a starting background. Previously I&#8217;ve applied a med grey opaque layer of paint when I wanted to not start with a glaring white surface. This is Susan&#8217;s suggested method and I think I&#8217;ll like it better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface3.jpg\" ><img title=\"Drying surfaces\" src =\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface3.jpg\" alt=\"Image of drying surfaces\" width=\"\" height=\"350\"\/> <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface4.jpg\" ><img title=\"More drying surfaces\" src =\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/painting\/surface\/surface4.jpg\" alt=\"Image of more drying surfaces\" width=\"\" height=\"350\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is going to be a two part project as I only have so much space to let them dry for several days  and I have more to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent part of this afternoon preparing painting surfaces for week long painting workshop I&#8217;ll be attending in August with Susan Abbott in VT. I&#8217;m excited about this work shop as I&#8217;ve wanted to study with her for a while now but the timing never worked out. First I made sure I have wet canvas carriers&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/preparing-painting-surfaces\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4603,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}