Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistRudy Rucker CollectionPaintings
Description Oil on canvas. 24' by 18'. March, 2010.
This particular picture emerged almost at random, I was simply fooling around with shapes and colors until I found something that I liked: a giant octopus in a silly hat that might be a washtub or a lampshade. At this time I was still waiting to have a fix done on my heart. After Id been working on this picture for a couple of days I suddenly realized that the red octopus was in fact a symbol of my heart with its arteries. My subconscious thoughts become manifest when Im painting! Somehow doing this painting made me less anxious, and in the end, getting my heart fixed wasnt a particularly big deal.
In this painting and Heart Surgery, I was using an alla prima techniquethis is the practice of finishing a picture while its still wet, as opposed to letting it dry and then applying successive layers. With oils, the paint stays quite wet for two or three days, so you can stretch out an alla prima session. Its enjoyably easy to blend oil paints on the canvas; the new colors mix in with the old ones instead of sitting on top. When correcting things, its more a matter of pushing the paint around than a matter of painting over what you did before.
Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California Member Since February 2007 Artist Statement Rudy Rucker is a well-known novelist and popular science writer who paints surreal or abstract scenes that sometimes relate to incidents in his books. He's been painting since the year 2000. His paintings are popular, and he's sold about a hundred and twenty of them.
See his paintings page
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
For info on the individual pictures, see his online catalog
https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/rucker_paintings_catalog_scroll.pdf