{"id":1721,"date":"2012-03-31T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2012-03-31T08:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:38:02","slug":"fairbanks-alaska-gets-some-eifert-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/fairbanks-alaska-gets-some-eifert-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks Alaska Gets Some Eifert Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eifert-Cripple-Creek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1722\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Eifert-Cripple-Creek\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eifert-Cripple-Creek-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>This week I finished up two pieces of art for outdoor installations <\/strong>destined for the Chena Flats Greenbelt Project in Fairbanks, Alaska. Lots of mining\u00a0&#8211; lots of messed up watersheds have left this area in need of lots of repair. These paintings are about what\u00a0I seem to do a lot of these days: show how\u00a0a landscape MIGHT look if we give it a chance. There are many\u00a0agencies and non-profits involved in this, but it really seems to be\u00a0just a small group of involved citizens doing their best to improve their backyard. I&#8217;ve been working with a very impressive and diligent woman there who was\u00a0willing to pare down text and make this look good &#8211; and I think together we developed it into a pretty nice piece of interpretation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eifert-Cripple-Creek-sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1724\" title=\"Eifert-Cripple-Creek-sketch\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eifert-Cripple-Creek-sketch-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s the original, first-draft sketch. Critters came, left, changed &#8211; but in the final it&#8217;s pretty much like the first idea. That&#8217;s how art should be, I think,\u00a0because the first flash of thought is usually the best. Thanks, Sally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks for reading this week.<br \/>\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\">Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\">Click <\/a>here to go to our main website &#8211; packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancycherryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy&#8217;s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I finished up two pieces of art for outdoor installations destined for the Chena Flats Greenbelt Project in Fairbanks, Alaska. Lots of mining\u00a0&#8211; lots of messed up watersheds have left this area in need of lots of repair. These paintings are about what\u00a0I seem to do a lot of these days: show how\u00a0a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/fairbanks-alaska-gets-some-eifert-paintings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fairbanks Alaska Gets Some Eifert Paintings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9,21,41,55,113,120,125],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-alaska","tag-chena-flats","tag-fairbanks","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-streams","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\/1721","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=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}