Category: Vermilion, OH

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Tom Hudson

To address my acute storage problem, I decided to convert our two-car garage into a full-time studio. Unlike my current studio, the garage has a high ceiling, which means I can work more easily on large-format paintings. Besides, I already use the garage to stretch and prepare canvases.

In order to re-purpose the garage, we are installing a 10′ x 12′ shed in the backyard. We will move the camping, boating, and garden equipment–like the lawn tractor–into the shed. The garage doesn’t have north-facing windows but it does have good light. We will install baseboard heat like we did in my last studio in New Jersey.

So, after mid-August I will have my current studio with its bank of north-facing windows and the high-ceiling studio for big paintings.

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Happy 4th, everybody. There will be fireworks over the lake tonight.

Perfect day on Lake Erie, July 4, 2014

Perfect day on Lake Erie, July 4, 2014

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In the studio 6/22/2014

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Besides finishing The Call, I recently worked on the paintings in this photo. Today’s session was the second painting session for the one on the right, Heated Discussion (the drawing took several sessions). The painting in the upper-left, Explain (or maybe just Plain–I haven’t decided) is almost done. I am hoping that one more session will…

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It’s a great day on Lake Erie. The air is crisp, cool, and sun-drenched. Waves pound the beach throwing up plumes of white froth.

Waves pound our beach

Waves pound our beach

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The Betty Jane launched for the season. We were late getting her into the water this year but we’re ready to go now.

The Betty Jane launched for the season

The Betty Jane launched for the season

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On the easel 5/11/14

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Mother’s Day. The weather is perfect. We worked on the boat–The Betty Jane–yesterday and today.  Painting was light this morning but I did get a session in with The Call. First time I’ve worked on it in a little while. I used the last of my old roll of canvas stretching three large ones yesterday. Earlier this…

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It’s a beautiful day today. The weather is fine and it’s Mother’s Day.

Kathleen, my darling, it’s been 24 wonderful years. I love you as much now as I did then–more.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother-in-law Rose. You have always been the mother-in-law every man wants: kind, supportive, and good-hearted.

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother Betty Jane. It’s impossible to believe you’ve been gone 34 years. In my heart you’ve never been gone for a single instant. Not a day goes that I don’t think about you.