{"id":2592,"date":"2013-08-05T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2013-08-05T08:04:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:04:27","slug":"progress-pix-for-my-sitka-alaska-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/progress-pix-for-my-sitka-alaska-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress Pix for my Sitka Alaska Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Progress\u00a0<\/strong>shown here in reverse. This is the most current version as of Friday, August 2, 2013.<\/strong>\u00a0Trees are more refined, details emerging on the shoreline, devils club and meadow, water reflections beginning, some details with the Marten are beginning – and the dipper appears along with some salmon. \u00a0As I paint this, I can almost feel myself remembering our trip there, standing on this same shore and how it felt and smelled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Defining broad areas with texture takes time.<\/p>\n

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Last week before I had National Park Service approval to proceed, I spent time blocking out color and background, which is stuff that almost never gets changed. This painting is about four feet wide – not a big one for me, but big enough to get some detail going.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the second version of the sketch I posted two weeks ago. The entire lower half was enlarged by about 15% with the bear, deer, harlequin ducks and some other stuff moved around to fit better. \u00a0The lower part was enlarged to show off the critters that tell the story of how the salmon return home to spawn, die and are subsequently eaten by local birds and animals that, in turn, provide nutrients to the forest. I had to provide (prove) that the foreground critters were sized correctly in relationship to each other, so the Raven = 24″, Dipper = 7.5″, Marten = 19-27″, which in my view is about correct.\u00a0\u00a0Am I getting there?<\/p>\n

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

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Progress\u00a0shown here in reverse. This is the most current version as of Friday, August 2, 2013.\u00a0Trees are more refined, details emerging on the shoreline, devils club and meadow, water reflections beginning, some details with the Marten are beginning – and the dipper appears along with some salmon. \u00a0As I paint this, I can almost feel … Continue reading Progress Pix for my Sitka Alaska Painting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[9,40,55,71,125],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-alaska","tag-exhibits","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-murals","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\/2592","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=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}