{"id":6198,"date":"2016-03-29T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:00:50","slug":"fish-feast-for-ludington-state-park-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/fish-feast-for-ludington-state-park-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Feast for Ludington State Park in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Click on the finished painting to enlarge it – I put a much bigger version on the web so you can see details]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been painting fish, a lot of fish!<\/strong>  This is for Ludington State Park in Michigan and is part of three images that total 18 feet long. <\/strong>This one is for kids, but it really could be a fish-who’s-who for anyone. The Vienna that went down a century ago, yes, there really is a ship wreck there that looks like this. And, yes, they really have Chinook and Coho Salmon, and a bunch of other alien fish that have either been planted or let loose and are now creating havoc in Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Double-crested Cormorant by Larry Eifert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Small-mouthed Bass by Larry Eifert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We decided that the fish might be used in other Michigan State Parks in other interpretive projects, so I painted the fish and the cormorant separately, then floated them over the background digitally. That means they can use them any size or placement in all sorts of ways – sort of a fine-art digital mashup.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chinook Salmon by Larry Eifert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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I’m always asked how the heck Larry Eifert in Port Townsend Washington gets to paint fish in Michigan. Well, this project came from Joan at Genesis Graphics in Michigan, a long time supporter of what I like to do – and then through Theresa at Michigan State Parks in the  Upper Peninsula. Theresa was very nice to work with and we seemed to hit it off – so I hope to do more for them. So, the final installation will be at Ludington down on the west side of lower Michigan right on the lake – not 30 miles from where I lived for awhile in Door County Wisconsin. Small world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it’s an ever-widening circle of friends that keeps me going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Here’s the blog on the web.<\/a> And here’s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy’s web portfolio of beautiful photographs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Click here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.<\/a> Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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