Pencil sketches are always difficult to see here, so click on this image to enlarge it. A large non-profit organization is working on a project south of Reno Nevada along the Sierra Front, and, as part of it this painting will soon be installed in their new visitor center at the ranch. It’s an exciting prospect for me to paint this. Sandhill cranes, bald eagles, large populations of white-faced ibis, and one of the only colonies of tri-colored blackbirds in Nevada are here. With 250 species of birds and a backdrop of mountains that just doesn’t quit, it’s an exciting place to paint one of these complex habitat murals. I’ve painted for this private organization before. There’s been a mural and nature guide for the Kenai River in Alaska (exceptional field trip), one for the Great Salt Lake wetlands north of Salt Lake City (where we got to see a peregrine falcon’s nest up close as the parent divebombed us) and another one north of this current image in the Lahanton National Wildlife Refuge. That mural included a very fun airboat trip out into the tule marshes – you know, the boats with the big propellers on the backs that go in about 2″ of water. USFWS showed us some fresh water clams still living there that are hold-overs from the last Ice Age.

I’m working up a ‘warmup’ painting for this mural of a marsh wren singing that I’ll post soon.

Thanks for reading this week.
Larry Eifert

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