{"id":1116,"date":"2009-03-19T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T21:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/yellow-vines\/"},"modified":"2009-03-19T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T22:52:26","slug":"yellow-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/yellow-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Reminder: I\u2019m in a group reading in San Francisco <\/a>on Monday, March 23]<\/code><\/p>\n

I finished a new painting today, \u201cYellow Vines,\u201d\u009d acrylic, 18\u201d\u009d by 24\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m thinking about these alien beings, the jivas, from a world called Flimsy, and the jivas have very long tails. But this is in fact a more or less accurate nature painting, based on a really big vine I saw on an oak tree at the far end of the Lexington reservoir.<\/p>\n

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I took a picture of it last month on a rainy day, and I was struck by the contrast between the pale vine and the damp bark. And I love the 3D curve of the vine.<\/p>\n

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I went back a week or ten days ago, and it wasn\u2019t so rainy anymore, so the contrast wasn\u2019t so high. I lugged my paint kit in there and started work on a picture. This photo is patched together from I think four smaller photos, Photoshop CS3 is really good at automerging photos. I noticed a vine on the left I could put in the picture, too, and further to the right was another vine I decided to bring in.<\/p>\n

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So my first draft of the picture looked like this. And then I spent a week making the trunks more three-dimensional, popping the color a little harder and working on the ground and the background. Layer after layer.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve also been working on Jim and the Flims<\/em>…it\u2019s hard going, balancing out all the various constraints. Like, on the one hand, I want to have weird and surprising things happening, but on the other hand, I want to build up the characters as solid and believable by sometimes letting them just hang out and talk about ordinary things.<\/p>\n

I saw this weird alien doll at my son Rudy\u2019s house, he\u2019d sewn together a stuffed baby-doll and a stuffed dog.<\/p>\n


\nPainting (C) Vernon Head, 2009, possible title: \u201cTentacle Lake.\u201d\u009d
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My friend Vernon Head came over to paint with my last week. He\u2019s a very skilled painter\u2014he can knock out a gorgeous watercolor landscape in an hour. He felt like trying something different, so he added an SF element to his picture, like I often do.<\/p>\n

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I had a nice hike at Big Basin Park with my friend Emilio. This time I didn\u2019t get off the trail and lose my glasses<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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My artist friend Dick Termes is mounting a show of 50 of his paintings on spheres at the Dahl Arts Center <\/a>in Rapid City, South Dakota, with a reception on Friday, March 20, 2009. Here\u2019s a cool video of Dick setting up the show.<\/p>\n

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[Reminder: I\u2019m in a group reading in San Francisco on Monday, March 23] I finished a new painting today, \u201cYellow Vines,\u201d\u009d acrylic, 18\u201d\u009d by 24\u201d\u009d. I\u2019m thinking about these alien beings, the jivas, from a world called Flimsy, and the jivas have very long tails. But this is in fact a more or less accurate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}