{"id":1381,"date":"2011-09-21T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2011-09-21T09:46:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T16:46:05","slug":"red-legged-kittiwakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/red-legged-kittiwakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-legged Kittiwakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve never painted this bird species<\/strong>, and\u00a0in Seward Alaska\u00a0recently there were lots of them at the SeaLife Center, so,\u00a0I just had to take a stab at a painting. We heard someone trying to describe the white on kittiwakes as “the whitest white.” I’d go farther. To me it is so white as to be a void,\u00a0as if touching\u00a0one would put your hand into a\u00a0cosmic hole so deep and profound\u00a0is that lack of color.\u00a0They’re a very localized species, nesting on offshore islands of Alaska and spending winters in the Bering Sea, and their populations are down by about a third in recent decades as are most pelagic birds and sea animals around there.\u00a0Black-legged kittiwakes were there as well, and we saw them on rocks just like this out out in Resurrection Sound with the Stellers sealions near the caving glaciers.<\/p>\n

It’s always thrilling for me to see a creature as soft and vulnerable as this making a home in such a forbidding and harsh place. I tried to show that in the colors. Glacier-sculptured rock, windblown and water-blasted cliffs are this creature’s life, never mind the winters of driving snow, ice and hurricane-force winds. And we complain about so many unimportant\u00a0 and casual things. What do they complain about?<\/p>\n

\u00a0This ORIGINAL painting is varnished acrylic on linen canvas, 11″ x 14″ and $160 unframed. \"\"<\/a>
\nA\u00a0mahogany\u00a0frame with linen liner\u00a0makes it a total of $180 and shipping adds just a bit more depending on your zone or if you take the frame. This is the original painting, NOT a print, but prints will be available soon.
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\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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I’ve never painted this bird species, and\u00a0in Seward Alaska\u00a0recently there were lots of them at the SeaLife Center, so,\u00a0I just had to take a stab at a painting. We heard someone trying to describe the white on kittiwakes as “the whitest white.” I’d go farther. To me it is so white as to be a … Continue reading Red-legged Kittiwakes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[9,34,44,58,125],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-alaska","tag-easel-paintings","tag-field-trips","tag-kenai-fjords","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\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}