Thursday, July 7, 2011

Big Basin Redwoods State Park-Gay Kraeger


In June I took my daughters and great niece to the ribbon cutting of some of my interpretive panels at Big Basin. It is always fun to see the finished product in place. These panels were delivered directly to the client, so this was the first time I was able to see the actual thing instead of on a computer screen. The photo is my great niece pointing to a hike she took with my husband. He hiked all the trails and measured the elevation gain for the trail profiles.


After the ribbon cutting, We hung around and checked out the headquarters area of the park and I worked in my journal. The redwood is a composite of the trees we were driving by on our way to various panels. We checked out the small museum in the park. They have some very well done mounts in the little museum so I added a couple of creatures to my journal page.

9 comments:

  1. that journal of yours should be a book,,, it isn't is it?I mean forsale,,amazing work you do,, wow,

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  2. This is wonderful, Gay, congratulations!

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  3. Congratulations on your interpretive panels, and I love the journal page.

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  4. CONGRATULATIONS on this project! I can't wait to go over to the park to see them for myself. How many panels did you do?

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  5. I live in San Jose, so I'll look for these on my next visit to Big Basin! I checked out your beautiful journaling website (I googled you because the link on the sidebar isn't up-to-date.) and your classes look fascinating. I work in colored pencil and graphite, but if I ever take the plunge into watercolor, I'll be ready to sign up!

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  6. Thank you for the heads up on the website, Sarah! I'll dig out the new one after daybreak...not quite 4 here, too tired!

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  7. Thank you everybody,
    laurie, I have never published any journals but you can see my most recent ones on my flickr site.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaykraeger/
    Claire, We did 4 panels at Big Basin. One on wildlife, one on Redwoods, a history panel and the welcome map.
    Thanks for fixing the website Kate.

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  8. You're welcome, Gay. NO idea why it wasn't working right...I made sure it was the same here and on the Artists Journal Workshop blog...

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