Easily one of my favorite LBJ’s (little brown jobs). This is a brown creeper, a bug-eating specialist that hangs out fairly consistently in our little forest here in Port Townsend. It never visits the feeders, but instead carefully searches tree trunks for a next bug-meal – usually on the biggest trees they can find. Nuthatches usually spiral DOWN tree trunks, while creepers often pass them as they go up, picking off the insects the nuthatches miss. Once at the top, they fly to the bottom of the next tree and start it all over again. I show this guy going down, and of course they’d do this too occasionally just looking at their scenery the other direction. I just had this view in my mind of its compact little body upended.

This ORIGINAL painting is acrylic on board, 6″ x 9″ and $145 framed. Outside edge of the frame is about 12″ x 15″.
This custom frame has a triple liner and glass. Shipping adds just a bit more depending on your zone. This is the original painting, NOT a print.
Email us if you’d like it hanging on YOUR wall instead of mine.

And the answer to last week’s question: where is this?

Not a single person guessed the answer to my question last week of where the coastal scene was. Lots of guesses that included several states, but no one thought that is was made up. The idea was to paint a place that ‘feels’ like Olympic NP, has river, ocean, seastacks, mountains and old-growth. Got’m all, it’s just nowhere that’s real.

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Larry Eifert

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