{"id":2497,"date":"2010-08-18T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/nude-nabs-ufo\/"},"modified":"2010-08-25T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T22:00:51","slug":"nude-nabs-ufo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/nude-nabs-ufo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nude Nabs UFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/strong> I finished my painting today, \u201c<em>Nude Nabs UFO<\/em>\u201d\u009d.  You can click on the image below to see a larger version.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images2\/75_nudenabsufo1000.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images2\/75_nudenabsufo.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started this one last week during an <em> en plein air <\/em> painting session on a pocket beach near Davenport with my painter pal Vernon Head.  I had the rocks and the water, and I added the UFO, modeling its shape on the lid of my water bottle.  And at home I put in the two nudes, to liven things up.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the flying saucer didn\u2019t look quite right, and it wasn unclear how far away it was, so I had the guy take hold of it, thereby shrinking it and bringing it into the foreground.  I have it casting a shadow like a beach umbrella onto the California woman to further anchor its position.  And finally I had the idea that the guy is shaking the UFO, and two of the little aliens inside are falling out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images2\/originalnudenabsufo.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the beach \u201creally\u201d\u009d looked like, by the way.  But, I submit to you, <em>what is reality?<\/em>  I far prefer a world where a nudist nabs a UFO!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images2\/shirts108.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I washed my painting clothes and I\u2019m going out again today.<\/p>\n<p>As always, you can find info about aquiring prints and originals of my paintings at my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/paintings\">Paintings Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my painting today, \u201cNude Nabs UFO\u201d\u009d. You can click on the image below to see a larger version. I started this one last week during an en plein air painting session on a pocket beach near Davenport with my painter pal Vernon Head. I had the rocks and the water, and I added [&hellip;]<\/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-2497","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\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}