{"id":1005,"date":"2011-02-26T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2011-02-26T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:40:57","slug":"day-2-4-necedah-national-wildlife-refuge-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/day-2-4-necedah-national-wildlife-refuge-murals\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2-4 Necedah National Wildlife Refuge Murals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a\u00a0 bunch of round-and-round about sizes, measurements and materials, I’ve now begun\u00a0two larger paintings for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. Stay tuned for progress reports. These two shots are Days 2-4 on the first painting.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal. It’s a new visitor center at the refuge in central Wisconsin. There are 130 feet of walls that need to show, in an artisitic way,\u00a0five habitats all woven together, from prairie wetlands to sedge meadows, uplands prairie to oak savanna and finally pine forest. Tallest wall is about 12 feet.\u00a0Normally, I’d do these on theater canvas and they’d be glued up, but we’re trying something technologically new (at least for me). We’re painting these at 30% of final size on Yupo plastic paper, an ultra smooth surface that’s good for high detail.\u00a0When finished,\u00a0they’ll be digitally scanned and blown up 300%. So far, the printed samples look pretty good, and it allows me to paint in a much smaller room, and much quicker\u00a0– and if the visitor center burns down (which has happened), they can put up a\u00a0fresh copy.<\/p>\n

Thanks so much to Port Townsend’s Union Bank for giving me studio space in a community room. They’ve done this before on large projects and have really helped my painting process.\u00a0While\u00a0these two paintings\u00a0are\u00a030% of final size, I still need much\u00a0bigger walls than I have here in my studio. Nancy’s down there painting away with me, and she’s helping to speed the process\u00a0up. So far it’s been fun. The story of Necedah and how it relates to my past is an interesting one, but we’ll save that for another post.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more soon. Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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After a\u00a0 bunch of round-and-round about sizes, measurements and materials, I’ve now begun\u00a0two larger paintings for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. Stay tuned for progress reports. These two shots are Days 2-4 on the first painting. Here’s the deal. It’s a new visitor center at the refuge in central Wisconsin. There are 130 … Continue reading Day 2-4 Necedah National Wildlife Refuge Murals<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[71,76,120,125],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-murals","tag-necedah-nwr","tag-wetlands","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}