{"id":2942,"date":"2011-01-27T21:44:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T05:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2011-01-27T21:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T05:49:05","slug":"painting-of-monument-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/27\/painting-of-monument-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting of Monument Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images3\/78_monumentvalley.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Monument Valley, acrylic, 24&#8243; x 18&#8243;, January 2011.  More info at my <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/paintings\">Paintings page.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I started this en plein air at Monument Valley in September, 2010.  We had some warm days this week, so I got out in my &#8220;studio&#8221; (the back yard) and finished this one.  Acrylic for a change, which works better when you\u2019re carrying a painting around outdoors&#8212;it dries fast.  Strong colors even if it is acrylic.<\/p>\n<p>Those rock formations on the left are called the Mittens.  This is an amazing place, with a strong spiritual vibe.  The day after I painted this, I got up before dawn and hiked down into the valley, around the mitten on the left, and back up\u2014which took about four hours.<\/p>\n<p> If you ever get a chance, go there and stay at THE VIEW, the Navajo-run motel right there with this view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monument Valley, acrylic, 24&#8243; x 18&#8243;, January 2011. More info at my Paintings page. I started this en plein air at Monument Valley in September, 2010. We had some warm days this week, so I got out in my &#8220;studio&#8221; (the back yard) and finished this one. Acrylic for a change, which works better when [&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-2942","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\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}