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January 29th, 2015

1/29/2015

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Beginning the painting of the Chinese Dam, AKA the Old Carmel River Dam. January 29, 2015, 11:30 am - 2:30 p.m.
This dam and bridge will be taken out next year after all other work has been completed upstream at the San Clemente Dam. project area.

This dam was built by approximately 700 Chinese workers in 1883-84 (three months/24 hours a day, according to information in the book River in Ruin by Ray March). According to a reporter from the Salinas Index who was at the dam site while it was being built, the dam is six feet wide at the top and twenty-one feet wide at the bottom. It is made from marble and granite gathered and hewn onsite, held together with Portland cement. A pipeline was installed to capture the river water to be piped twenty-five miles to Monterey and the Hotel Del Monte. (The bridge was built at a later date.) The dam cost just 2,267.21 to build! 
The current project to dismantle the two dams and reroute the river will cost 84 million! Here is a link to the River in Ruin book publisher.
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First pass on painting the Chinese Dam on the Carmel River...a complex place to capture! I plan to paint the river at this location when the dam comes down.
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Painting from Radio Tower Road

1/25/2015

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Painting onsite January 22, 2015
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Second pass on the painting...close to being completed.
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San Clemente Dam Project: Painting from Radio Tower Road

1/20/2015

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Looking down on the project site. The river is flowing through the new route through the San Clemente Creek Drainage on the right and over the dam in the left of the photo. The soil area (above the water pools) is the area where the soil and rocks from the dredging of the dam and the excavation of the mountain was placed..engineered into a new "mountain". This is where the Carmel River used to flow. Next year, there will be no dam here and no water being held back as you see here.
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Painting onsite...did the drawing from a 3" x5" webcam image to get a head start...
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First pass on developing the painting... 24" x 48" approximately 9:30 a.m.
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Second pass on the painting about 11:00 am. Will be gong back in a couple days to complete the painting. I will be adding some more detail to show more of nature of the construction...but also keeping it loose...
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Painting in progress... 1.20.2015
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Painting onsite captured dramatically by Jeffrey Luhn, photographer for the San Clemente Dam Removal and Carmel River ReRoute Project.
Thank you to Bill McGowan for continued access to the project site to do these paintings. Thank you to David Hamblin of Granite Construction for taking me onsite to work on this painting ...and checking out locations for painting the Old Chinese dam next week...
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We Are Water painting

1/13/2015

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This painting,"We Are Water", was created by Paola Berthoin especially for the Miniatures Exhibit at the Monterey Museum of Art, 2014.

There are just two days left to put your tickets into the white box and have a chance at winning this original painting. Drawing takes place January 15 after 7:30 p.m.

So, if you live in the Monterey Bay area, go to the La Mirada Museum  and buy your tickets. Place them in the box corresponding to this painting by 7:30 p.m. on January 15, and you may win!
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Dolphins in Carmel Bay - New Year's Eve

1/2/2015

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Exhilarating to watch the dolphins ride the waves, back and forth. It was a  low tide so it was possible to walk out far to get a bit closer...a treat on such a spectacular day.
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    Paola Berthoin is the designer/creator/publisher of  Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed. Her focus is inspiring and educating people about the natural world through the arts. She is available to design your book, create (illustrate and write) interpretive materials for your watershed community, consult for healthy gardens, paint a commissioned painting of your favorite place in the Carmel River Watershed and beyond!


    When we allow wildness, our own spirit, to flourish within, we can also respect and allow nature’s spirit, the wild outside, to exist.
             - Paola Fiorelle Berthoin
                                                                                                                                                               

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