{"id":7409,"date":"2017-04-23T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=7409"},"modified":"2017-04-24T08:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:30:56","slug":"at-the-boardwalk-paintings-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/23\/at-the-boardwalk-paintings-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Boardwalk. Paintings Sale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son and his family came down for a day at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk a couple of weeks ago.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/kidswatersillho.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kids frolicking by the water like live Flatland beings, like gothic shadows, so iconic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/bwalkdipcone.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really ate a lot. Like the rat at the county fair in <em>Charlotte\u2019s Web<\/em>.  I got kind of hypnotized by the image of this giant dipped cone.  The texture so appealing.  Memories of eating these as a boy.  I scored one and went down on the beach to eat it alone\u2014I\u2019d just bought ice-cream for the kids and myself a half hour before, and it didn\u2019t seem wise to give the kids even more ice-cream already.  But I figured I could handle it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/sinisterswissswings.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As always the sinister \u201cSwiss Swings\u201d\u009d ride made me uneasy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/boardwalk17.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was crowded on the Boardwalk, a Saturday, with the slanting late afternoon sun.  Kind of 1930s Coney Island photo look to it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/sunsetgulls.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great ragged silhouettes of gulls.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/tworayguns.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I bought rayguns for the kids so we could chase each other around yelling. Especially the little boy.  And my wife gave the girls a pair of carrot-handled Easter jumpropes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/143_wildwest.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em> \u201cWild West\u201d\u009d acrylic on canvas, March, 2017, 30\u201d\u009d x 20\u201d\u009d.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/143_wildwest_1200.jpg\"> Click for a larger version of the painting.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>My most recent painting is called \u201cWild West.\u201d\u009d After doing four cellular-automata-inspired paintings in a row, it was easy for me to go all the way into abstraction.  Daubing away, hour after hour, until the colors all looked right. I made the blue things look a little like legs with feet because I my own leg was sore from bicycling. And then I decided they were blue boots and that, come to think of it, the whole painting has something of a Western theme.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/lppigelder.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo above shows me <em>being <\/em>in the Wild West recently, that is, in Lone Pine, California, near Mt. Whitney, as part of a road trip to Death Valley. I might get a new painting or two out of that trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/paintings\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images7\/rucker_paintings_sale_spring2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve done a <em>lot <\/em>of paintings lately, and I need to sell some to clear up some space in my house.  Check out the images, catalog, and reduced sale prices on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/paintings\">Paintings page<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son and his family came down for a day at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk a couple of weeks ago. The kids frolicking by the water like live Flatland beings, like gothic shadows, so iconic. I really ate a lot. Like the rat at the county fair in Charlotte\u2019s Web. I got kind of hypnotized [&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-7409","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\/7409","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=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7409\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}