{"id":6265,"date":"2016-12-13T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2023-12-23T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:20:11","slug":"snow-creek-restoration-wayside-panel-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/snow-creek-restoration-wayside-panel-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Creek Restoration wayside panel sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finishing the year properly with a local project. A LOCAL PROJECT!<\/strong> Hear that, he said joyfully with some paintings for Discovery Bay, just southwest of Port Townsend, WA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s the sketch for this first one. But first some background.<\/strong> For the past couple of years, heavy equipment and a bunch of people have been pulling creosote posts, removing a couple of bridges, rerouting a water line, hauling off tons of rocks and trying to put nature back together after more than a century of messing things up by us. The idea was to recreate a friendly environment for salmon, and it\u2019s looking good optimistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This painting will be on a wayside panel at Snow Creek, the same creek that our nearby Chimacum Creek chum salmon came from 15 years ago in another restoration \u2013 and that makes this project even more personal for me. It shows the creek meandering down under the sheltering alders and out into the estuary.  Port Townsend is down the bay and around the corner. There was a trestle and railroad grade crossing just to the left that is now completely gone, allowing two creeks to find their historic channels again. Drawing this, a landscape in transition, has been challenging, so we\u2019ll see what transpires as two wild creeks relocate themselves. Either the painting will remain realistic or it might become completely outdated \u2013 either way, the story is accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what Snow Creek looks like at the moment, carrying silt to build new shorelines and generally get back to normal. I\u2019ll post the painting for this one soon. Thanks, Dave and the folks at the North Olympic Salmon Coalition for the pleasure of learning more about and then painting my own neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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Finishing the year properly with a local project. A LOCAL PROJECT! Hear that, he said joyfully with some paintings for Discovery Bay, just southwest of Port Townsend, WA. Here\u2019s the sketch for this first one. But first some background. For the past couple of years, heavy equipment and a bunch of people have been pulling creosote … Continue reading Snow Creek Restoration wayside panel sketch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12994,"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":[2,152,6],"tags":[55,160,120,125],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murals","category-waysides","category-wildlife","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-north-olympic-salmon-coalition","tag-wetlands","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Snow-Creek-wayside-panel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12996,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/12996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}