{"id":8890,"date":"2020-04-24T08:10:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=8890"},"modified":"2023-10-01T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T15:35:22","slug":"fort-matanzas-national-monument-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/fort-matanzas-national-monument-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Matanzas National Monument mural"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edging in towards final approval for this project has been going since my site visit last summer. <\/strong> This makes the third painting I’ve finished for National Park Service maps, and the list couldn’t be any different: Point Reyes California , El Malpais New Mexico, this one – and Glacier National Park in Montana is scheduled this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This close-up section which should enlarge if you click on it.<\/strong><\/em> Here’s the brief back story: a highway now runs right through this scene<\/strong>, cutting the park in half. So, it was decided to make it look like it was 200 years ago – no highway, but all the same critters. Fort Matanzas is an old Spanish coastal fort, the reason for the park, but it’s also the LAST undredged river estuary on the entire east side of Florida – so they wanted a mural of nature instead of human history.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This will soon be the back of the park map, a publication that will be in the hands of about everyone who visits, then sticks it in the glove compartment of the rental car, takes it home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And here’s the fort, cannons and all – including the barracks inside. The sketch below was drawn soon after I was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site visit: Below is what happens when you take a camera from an air conditioned rental car into the 96%  humidity of Florida in summer. Imagine a job that daily puts you out here with life jackets and bullet proof Kevlar vests – some of the rangers carried towels to constantly dry off with.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I learned a lot about this place. The sand here is a beautiful mix of shells and white powder. One of the ranger gave me an session in how it’s made. Coquina sand, the yellow s stuff is what becomes of these golden shells after they’re ground up in the surf, and of course that story had to be in the painting too. After 100 changes to the original art as we went along, I actually think it’s finished!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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