{"id":1401,"date":"2011-09-27T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2024-01-21T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:45:00","slug":"alpine-painting-for-the-schulman-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/alpine-painting-for-the-schulman-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Painting for the Schulman Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(both these images should enlarge if you click them)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I finished the first of three paintings for the new Schulman Grove Visitor Center near Bishop California. <\/strong>Below are the sketches, pinyon forest on the left, bristlecone forest in the middle and the alpine goes on the right. Together they take up an entire wall of the new building and both doors are lined up to showcase the paintings when you walk in the place, a beautiful new off-grid summer visitor center located in the Schulman Grove at about 10,000′ elevation. The alpine painting shows 14,252′ White Mountain in the background, only about 250 feet shy of Mt Rainier and Mt Whitney. The painting’s location is placed several thousand feet lower in a land of belly-plants, marmots and bighorn sheep, but still a landscape of stark light. It was not easy to pull this off, as there are very few resources telling me what grows at this high, dry and inhospitable place. With this one behind me, I look forward to the other two coming next along with a series of ink and watercolor images for the other exhibits.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you all know by now, I tend to paint trees.<\/strong> I’m very pleased the Forest Service chose me for this project as Great Basin bristlecone pines are the oldest trees on our planet. I also love these high mountain\u00a0tree forests, especially this famous grove. To walk among these ancient and gnarled artistic\u00a0sculptures we call trees is to walk with nature far beyond what I can understand. There’s a stark quiet here that sustains my thoughts of these living wonders far beyond\u00a0the initial visit. One of them here at Schulman\u00a0has been\u00a0cored to 4750 years of age, a thousand years older than any other known tree species. Other downed bits of\u00a0wood, branches and trunks long dead, have extended these dates back over twice that far and have actually helped rewrite climate history knowledge. But those are just numbers. How do you truly understand any of this when I will be lucky to live less than 1\/50th of that? \u00a0And here I am at this brief moment\u00a0of my life\u00a0trying to create something that will educate some of us about\u00a0all this. Daunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website – packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy’s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(both these images should enlarge if you click them) This week I finished the first of three paintings for the new Schulman Grove Visitor Center near Bishop California. Below are the sketches, pinyon forest on the left, bristlecone forest in the middle and the alpine goes on the right. Together they take up an entire wall of the new … Continue reading Alpine Painting for the Schulman Grove<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13227,"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":[19,34,71,86,124,125],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-bristlecone-pines","tag-easel-paintings","tag-murals","tag-parks","tag-wildflowers","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Schulam-Larry-Alpine.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","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=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13235,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/13235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}