{"id":4142,"date":"2012-07-04T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2012-07-28T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T17:00:08","slug":"sale-on-my-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/sale-on-my-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"“God’s Eye” and My Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I finished a new painting, God\u2019s Eye<\/em>.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cGod\u2019s Eye,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, June, 2012, 24\u201d\u009d x 20\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the image.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

More about \u201cGod\u2019s Eye\u201d\u009d below, but first let\u2019s talk about buying my art. I\u2019m painting at a good rate, about one a month, and my storage space is getting full.<\/p>\n

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You can check out the individual works and the price-list at my paintings <\/a>page. And note that you can buy prints via this page as well.<\/p>\n

Here’s an overview image of my paintings.<\/p>\n


\n Click for a larger version of the image.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Each of the paintings is signed, of course. Generally I paint the edges of the canvas so it can hang unframed, and I put my signature on the edge, as shown below.<\/p>\n

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Coming back to \u201cGod\u2019s Eye,\u201d\u009d I\u2019ve always been intrigued by a certain image that one sees in old European churches\u2014an eye inside a triangle. This icon also appears, of course, on the dollar bill. It\u2019s meant to represent the all-seeing eye of God or perhaps the divine light within every object. In researching my novels with Bruegel and Bosch as characters, I got the impression that medieval people really did think God was watching them. So here I\u2019ve painted the eye as looking down through clouds\u2014like a spy-satellite. I made the \u201cskin\u201d\u009d in this image pink as a kind of joke on the fact that God is sometimes visualized as an old white man. What expression does the eye seem to have? I\u2019d say it looks engrossed, with a possibility of becoming judgmental.<\/p>\n


\n[Ebook cover.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Still on the art promo front, I\u2019ve made ebook and paperback versions of my art book, Better Worlds<\/em>. It\u2019s up to ninety-two paintings now. You can buy a high-resolution Kindle ebook from Amazon <\/a>or get both the Kindle and EPUB formats, both in high-resolution, from my Transreal Books <\/a>site.<\/p>\n

I have a paperback of Better Worlds <\/em> coming out in August as well. You can check for the link n my Transreal Books <\/a>site. <\/p>\n

And do think about buying a painting! My basement\u2019s too full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I finished a new painting, God\u2019s Eye. \u201cGod\u2019s Eye,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, June, 2012, 24\u201d\u009d x 20\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the image. More about \u201cGod\u2019s Eye\u201d\u009d below, but first let\u2019s talk about buying my art. I\u2019m painting at a good rate, about one a month, and my storage space is […]<\/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-4142","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\/4142","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=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4150,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}