Two more finished panels and paintings for my California Creek project at Blaine Washington. Actually, these two panels represent 17 paintings, using with lots of little ones together. The first two were about birds and wildlife, these two are stories about clean water, shellfish and tides – and a long history of thousands of years of salmon and the people that followed them here. Here is the original concept drawing – it evolves a long, long way to finally becoming a finished installation. These will be in fused aluminum and last probably 30 years.
The fourth panel is about salmon and the people who hunted them. Eight paintings for this one. The main painting shows a summer salmon camp at the mouth of the creek where they caught and smoked the fish.
The original concept sketch, a bit more refined than the other one. I used Curtis photos as references.
And here, again, are the other two. These four will be lined up along the shoreline on an interpretive trail near a new kayak launch. Might have to go there with my boat and try it out. I like nothing better than creating these installations. Get out of the car, walk up to an overlook and here are a bunch of paintings that teach. An art gallery on the beach!
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