[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":77},["ShallowReactive",2],{"journal-why-i-paint-slowly":3,"journal-order":55},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":42,"date":43,"description":37,"excerpt":44,"extension":45,"fallbackImage":44,"focusX":46,"focusY":47,"image":48,"meta":49,"navigation":50,"path":51,"seo":52,"stem":53,"__hash__":54},"journal\u002Fjournal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly.md","Why I paint slowly",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":36},"minimark",[9,16,20,23,26,33],[10,11,12],"eyebrow",{},[13,14,15],"p",{},"Studio · November 2025",[17,18,5],"h2",{"id":19},"why-i-paint-slowly",[13,21,22],{},"People ask why I make so few paintings. The honest answer is that I make as many as I can. The slower answer is that slowness is not a method I chose — it is a method the paintings chose for me, the first time I tried to finish one before it was ready and watched it die.",[13,24,25],{},"A painting made fast is a performance. A painting made slowly is an argument with time, and time is the only honest opponent a picture has. Oil paint dries from the outside in. A glaze laid today will not show its true colour for two weeks. To paint in oil is to conspire with a process that will not be hurried, and the painting that respects its own drying is the painting that lasts.",[27,28,30],"callout",{"type":29},"quote",[13,31,32],{},"We are drowning in images and starving for looking. A handful of paintings, made slowly and looked at often, are worth more than thousands scrolled past.",[13,34,35],{},"I keep, at any moment, four or five panels going, each at a different stage of wet. While one dries, I look at another. The studio is a slow rotation, a small clock of its own. Some panels take a year. One took three. I do not apologise for that. The price of a slow painting is that there are few of them, and the value of a slow painting is that there are few of them, and those two facts are the same fact.",{"title":37,"searchDepth":38,"depth":38,"links":39},"",3,[40],{"id":19,"depth":41,"text":5},2,"Studio","2025-11-22",null,"md",50,42,"\u002Fimages\u002Fartworks\u002Fdaisy.jpg",{},true,"\u002Fjournal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly",{"title":5,"description":37},"journal\u002Fwhy-i-paint-slowly","kzszonIOOv62Cwl-F33BzKRTSbSDE-XbCDSSbjr3q84",[56,60,64,68,72,76],{"path":57,"title":58,"date":59},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fa-morning-at-the-uffizi","A morning at the Uffizi","2026-03-09",{"path":61,"title":62,"date":63},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fgold-leaf-and-patience","Gold leaf, and the patience it demands","2026-05-18",{"path":65,"title":66,"date":67},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fon-finishing-a-painting","On finishing a painting","2026-08-12",{"path":69,"title":70,"date":71},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fthe-first-and-second-thing","The first thing and the second thing","2025-09-04",{"path":73,"title":74,"date":75},"\u002Fjournal\u002Fthe-loupe-and-what-it-asks","The loupe, and what it asks of you","2026-07-02",{"path":51,"title":5,"date":43},1787607941459]