2026-5-10 Various Experiments

Our Swainson’s Thrush is on the elderberry, a soft mix of elegance – at least I hope that’s how it turned out.

These new oils are part of my efforts to learn more about liquid mediums, mixes of various evil brews of linseed oil, driers and thinners. Oils are complicated – you almost have to be a chemist to mix this goop, but I’m getting there. It makes life easier for the brushes – and painter if I get it right. Problem is, there isn’t a ‘right’.

These are all 9″ x 12″ on canvas and most are available on my Eifert Gallery on Etsy here.

It’s a fairly complicated painting for only 9″x12″, so here’s a larger version.

This second painting came from a recent hike up the Dosewallips River in the eastern Olympic Mountains. This isn’t the actual river, but a side tributary carrying water from the Tunnel Creek divide. Falling Water, 9″x12″ includes this silver frame or a gold one, you pick. Outside measurements are 14″ x 17″. Spring runoff is happening at a very alarming rate this year and I wanted to remember it. This painting is available here on my Eifert Gallery site on Etsy.

And below is a similar painting that is now available, but it’s painted in acrylic on canvas instead of oil. Acrylic has served me well for everything from wall murals 90 feet long, to something like this, a 9″x12″ painting with a lot of controlled detail. It’s from a sketch I made in the Hoh Rain Forest, a backwater of the Hoh River. In winter, this is a wild and crazy river, bringing down entire old-growth trees to pile up against the shores in big logjams. The road is washed out often because of it, but then when summer comes it’s a very beautiful place – as you can see.

Logjam, and these others, are available in my Etsy gallery for $295 framed as you see it. I can send it framed in a gold or silver frame, your choice. You can compare the two in the Eifert Gallery on Etsy.