{"id":962,"date":"2011-01-31T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=962"},"modified":"2011-01-31T08:40:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:40:35","slug":"necedah-refuge-mural-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/necedah-refuge-mural-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Necedah Refuge Mural Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week it’s another sketch for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.<\/strong> (this image\u00a0should blow up larger if you click it) I begin the painting on this\u00a0next week, and I’ll make sure\u00a0I send some in-progress images as things progress. I must be getting better with my habitat knowledge, because of the entire 140 feet of sketches (no, I didn’t do them full-sized), I only had a half-dozen things that needed fixing.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of critters! I loved doing these drawings – it’s art that really can’t be sold very easily, but I sure like to do it. It’s also a skill that’s critical to all else that follows, like the painting itself. Without a good foundation sketch, the painting would fail, or at least take much longer as I fumble around with it.<\/p>\n

This is a landscape I know pretty well. I grow up just a few hundred miles south of here, and my family often went north past here to the boreal forest of bogs, lakes and pines, the closest really good\u00a0“nature” to\u00a0the kingdom of central\u00a0Illinois. It’s a wonderful transition zone of grasslands, marshes, uplands prairies and open softwood forests. It’s a mix I enjoy painting, because there are few broad-leaved trees. South from here you\u00a0leave the pines behind and get into all those broadleafed oaks and open prairies -which means TOO many leaves and TOO many blades of grass to paint.<\/p>\n

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

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This week it’s another sketch for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin. (this image\u00a0should blow up larger if you click it) I begin the painting on this\u00a0next week, and I’ll make sure\u00a0I send some in-progress images as things progress. I must be getting better with my habitat knowledge, because of the entire 140 feet … Continue reading Necedah Refuge Mural Sketches<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[18,71,75,109],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-big-walls","tag-murals","tag-necedah","tag-sketches"],"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\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}