{"id":2622,"date":"2013-08-16T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2013-08-16T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:33:15","slug":"wooden-boat-paintings-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/wooden-boat-paintings-are-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Boat Paintings are Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Christie”<\/strong> is an acrylic painting on board, 14″ x 20″ and is offered as a pre-show sale for $795, custom framed in a choice gold frame with linen liner. Click the image and it’ll enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m \u00a0having a show at Gallery Nine in Port Townsend that opens September 7.\u00a0<\/strong>For many years I’ve built, rebuilt, painted wooden boats, sailed them to Alaska, California and Mexico (well, that one was plastic made from goo) – and of course I painted pictures of them – lots of them. I think of wooden boats as sculpture created from natural materials and shaped into something that actually moves, and moves by the power nature provides – the wind. They’re a marriage of form and function, designed and created to fulfill a difficult task in an alien environment that is always trying to kill me. They’re beautiful, they carry us to distant places of extreme natural beauty, and do it almost silently. I paint wilderness because I truly believe it is important, and \u00a0I sail wooden boats as a way to be closer to wilderness!<\/p>\n

So, we have a new boat now, a 1959 Lightning<\/strong> and it’s fairly well put back together so I’m putting it in the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival in September. As a little trip down memory lane for me, I dug around in our private collection and came up with some wooden boat paintings we’ve kept back, and these are going in the show. I’ll also have a bunch of less expensive Giclee prints of many of my favorites as usual, but some of the paintings haven’t been seen in years – and I think it’s a pretty sound body of work. So, this is the first blast of publicity before it opens. Join wood-wizard Chuck Stern and me at Gallery Nine September 7th if you’re local. If not, here’s the first chance at some of these paintings.<\/p>\n