{"id":1528,"date":"2012-01-13T19:05:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2024-01-18T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T18:22:40","slug":"going-to-lewis-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/going-to-lewis-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Lewis Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is another painting from late summer – and possibly my favorite from the past few months. Just haven’t had time to post it.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Going to Lewis Lake” not, “Taking the trail to Lewis Lake” – because there isn’t one (the trail, that is). In fact, we didn’t\u00a0make it to Lewis Lake because the snowy boulder hopping was a bit much and we didn’t have\u00a0our\u00a0ice gear. Not that I\u00a0minded – the view right here was as far as we got and was sure\u00a0worth the\u00a0climb, Lewis Lake or not.\u00a0If there’s anything I love dearly to paint, it’s an alpine landscape\u00a0with all sorts of craggy angles and snow in both sun and shade. The North Cascades are\u00a0my idea of\u00a0 painterly paradise.<\/p>\n

I’ve thought a lot about why this is a beautiful image\u00a0to me, and I’m pretty sure it’s partly\u00a0the idea that these landscapes are\u00a0delicately fragile and gigantically solid – soft and deadly, both at the same time. It’s not a place you can relax. Contrast the\u00a0little soft-stemmed alpine lupine and paintbrush to places still snow-covered – to the ominous\u00a0sounds of distant rockfall as thawing ice loosens yet another boulder. It’s a\u00a0place of wildly grand contrasts painters love, at least I do, even if it\u00a0was difficult to find a place to sit and\u00a0compose a future painting without squashing an entire little alpine garden.<\/p>\n

I’ve decided to hang on to this one for a bit – just because I like it so much. So, at the moment it’s not for sale. We don’t ever really hang art in our own home, mainly because we have mostly big windows and almost no walls – but this one found its way to one of the few spots, and I enjoy reliving this grand hiking experience every time I see it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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

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This is another painting from late summer – and possibly my favorite from the past few months. Just haven’t had time to post it. “Going to Lewis Lake” not, “Taking the trail to Lewis Lake” – because there isn’t one (the trail, that is). In fact, we didn’t\u00a0make it to Lewis Lake because the snowy … Continue reading Going to Lewis Lake<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13161,"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":[34,44,68,79,124],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-easel-paintings","tag-field-trips","tag-mountains","tag-north-cascades","tag-wildflowers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Going-to-Lewis-Lake.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","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=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13162,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/13162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}