{"id":1821,"date":"2012-06-16T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2012-06-16T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T16:29:35","slug":"glacier-bay-old-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/glacier-bay-old-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Glacier Bay Old-growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keeping it going, this week\u00a0was spent working on five smaller paintings for Glacier Bay National Park. <\/strong>Nancy\u00a0says I tend to loose track of obligations, appointments and schedules, well, try keeping five paintings with lots of details all on track.\u00a0Ah, priorities! It’s like juggling.\u00a0This one is a purely fictitious place but based on reality. The landscape around the Visitor Center and Lodge at Glacier Bay National Park is fresh from the ice\u00a0and its forests are still pretty\u00a0young.\u00a0It will likely be changed before it’s finished, but my task here was to paint what\u00a0WILL be there\u00a0eventually if the forest there continues to evolve as it should. If things go according to one option in nature’s normal plan, this will become a western hemlock-dominated forest, a few\u00a0huge trees, logs almost completely covered with moss, skunk cabbage and devils club. Everything would be green filtered light\u00a0as if\u00a0you’re inside an emerald. Did I get it?<\/p>\n

Here’s the first-draft concept sketch.<\/p>\n

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And below is the second draft before I started painting. It’s still very different from the final painting, but the elements are taking shape. In the end, the huckleberries left, devils club and skunk cabbage came in after the Park\u00a0straightened me out. Those\u00a0two species require more moisture than I had realized was there, so we shifted things around.<\/p>\n

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I get a fair amount of mail saying that comparing these sketches are the best part of my weekly posts. It’s the ‘inside scoop’ that few see, and I think it’s easy to recognize the fact that the pencil is the painter’s most valuable tool. The second most valuable tool\u00a0might be\u00a0that I’m working with two guys from the National Park Service\u00a0that really care. It’s such a treat for me to have interactions with people who\u00a0know what their doing, both on the ground with Melenie and Tom at Glacier Bay in Alaska and Chad at Harpers Ferry Center in West Virginia. I just never tire of learning about this stuff, especially from smart people. And that we did a conference call this week featuring a land-line and cel phone joining Alaska to Port Townsend together with a desk’s top\u00a0in West Virginia is even better.<\/p>\n

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

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Keeping it going, this week\u00a0was spent working on five smaller paintings for Glacier Bay National Park. Nancy\u00a0says I tend to loose track of obligations, appointments and schedules, well, try keeping five paintings with lots of details all on track.\u00a0Ah, priorities! It’s like juggling.\u00a0This one is a purely fictitious place but based on reality. The landscape … Continue reading Glacier Bay Old-growth<\/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":[9,50,55,81,125],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-alaska","tag-glacier-bay-np","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-old-growth-forests","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\/1821","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=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}