{"id":4920,"date":"2013-09-24T11:36:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=4920"},"modified":"2014-02-15T08:15:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T16:15:38","slug":"in-her-room-revised-art-book-paper-html-and-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/in-her-room-revised-art-book-paper-html-and-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In Her Room.&#8221; My BETTER WORLDS Art Book: Paper and PDF."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished another painting recently.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/102_heentersherroom.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em> \u201cIn Her Room,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, September, 2013, 22\u201d\u009d x 22\u201d\u009d. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/102_heentersherroom1200.jpg\"> Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a painting of our bedroom, showing my wife\u2019s mirror and some of the things on her dressing-table. That painting on the left is by her, it\u2019s called <em>Kate Croy. <\/em>I got the idea for the painting when I was coming into our room, and it was dark, and the hall-light behind me was on, haloing my silhouette in light, and I saw myself in the mirror. I like the little objects on the dressing-table, they\u2019re like symbolic icons in a medieval portrait. That green shape is a bridge between two realities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/betterworlds2013.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I put together a revised 2013 edition of my art book, <em>Better Worlds<\/em>. The book includes high-quality images, and a descriptive catalog of my paintings. {And I revised the book yet again in early January, 2014.}<\/p>\n<p>You can access the book in two ways. First of all, you can buy it as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/098582722X\/tag=rusbl0f-20\">quality paperback<\/a>. This high-quality art book sells for well under the list price of $25.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also made a free and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/paintings\/book\/paintingnotes.pdf\">lightweight PDF<\/a> file. This small 2K file includes all the book&#8217;s text, that is, the picture-by-picture catalog commentary, but with only small thumbnails of the paintings.<\/p>\n<p>And, as always, you can browse large images of my paintings on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/paintings\">paintings page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images4\/betterworlds2013back.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished another painting recently. \u201cIn Her Room,\u201d\u009d oil on canvas, September, 2013, 22\u201d\u009d x 22\u201d\u009d. Click for a larger version of the painting. This is a painting of our bedroom, showing my wife\u2019s mirror and some of the things on her dressing-table. That painting on the left is by her, it\u2019s called Kate Croy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","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\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5090,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions\/5090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}