{"id":747,"date":"2009-08-03T07:03:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=747"},"modified":"2009-09-04T02:16:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T10:16:44","slug":"look-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Look at this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step up and take a bow <strong>Ali<\/strong> from <strong>Illinois<\/strong>, who has sent me this spectacular drawing (below) via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/readerart.html\"><strong>the Black Tat Reader Art Page<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-751 aligncenter\" title=\"blacktattooreaderart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blacktattooreaderart.jpg\" alt=\"blacktattooreaderart\" width=\"502\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blacktattooreaderart.jpg 502w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blacktattooreaderart-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it great? It reminded me a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnjudepalencar.com\/\"><strong>John Jude Palencar<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s original sketch for what would become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/editions.html\"><strong>Black Tat Painting<\/strong><\/a>. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve posted that anywhere before, so here it is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-753 aligncenter\" title=\"tattoart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tattoart.jpg\" alt=\"tattoart\" width=\"509\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tattoart.jpg 509w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tattoart-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see the art changed quite a bit between this and Mr Palencar&#8217;s final version!<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to <strong>Ali<\/strong> for sharing this work with me (and now with you). It&#8217;s a huge thrill and honour for me if my stories inspire people to do or make amazing and beautiful things like this.<\/p>\n<p>If, by any happy chance, the books are doing something similar for you, then please don&#8217;t hesitate to <strong>show me<\/strong> via my websites&#8217; Reader Art pages. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/readerart.html\">the one for <strong>Black Tat<\/strong><\/a> and here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/readerart.html\">the one for <strong>Tim<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step up and take a bow Ali from Illinois, who has sent me this spectacular drawing (below) via the Black Tat Reader Art Page: Isn&#8217;t it great? It reminded me a lot of John Jude Palencar&#8216;s original sketch for what would become the Black Tat Painting. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve posted that anywhere before, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}