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Backpacking, Backpacking, featured, Hiking, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post

Gladys Lake – Olympic National Park

September 10, 2026 Brush Man

I’ve been to this little slice of heaven many times. I didn’t make it this year, so thought I needed to make a painting of it instead. I honestly don’t think I needed any references as I know the place very well. It’s a relatively small subalpine lake, a place few other hikers seem to go to, and maybe that’s why I like it. Often, I’d be all by myself here, camping in the trail crew area where the black-tails also hangout. Only the deer and myself in a place like this. Imagine!

The mountain in the background is Grand Peak, the notch seen just to the right of it Grand Pass, the trail on south to Cameron. It’s not orange rock, that’s my rendition of sunset. The slope on the left is what created Gladys Lake in the first place, glacial rocks plowing up the valley into various ponds. I just love these wet meadows, their meandering little seasonal streams, flower-covered meadows with outcrop rocks where trees have a dry enough foothold to grow. I’d bet that center little island with it’s stunted subalpine firs has been unchanged for centuries.

This painting is oil on canvas, 24″ x 18″ framed or not and is available on by Etsy Eifert Gallery. Email for more details if you want at larryeifert@gmail.com.

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featured, Hiking, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post

2026-8-26 Lillian Ridge Divide

August 29, 2026 Brush Man

A new oil on canvas, 24″x 18″- with the paint still wet. With this frame, outside measurements are about 30″x 24″. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4564405586/lillian-ridge-divide-larry-eifert

This was painted with those painters whose work I love from a century ago. It’s not a fictional place – just a bit of pushing reality around a little. I solo day-hiked here two weeks ago and it definitely made an impression on me. How could it not? The layers and layers of subalpine fir, avalanche chutes and knife ridge lines were just so paintable. I could paint these places every day until I croak.

The scene before me was on Lilian Ridge in Olympic National Park, with Lilian Creek in the valley far below. As I walked along here, two Columbian black-tail deer showed up to question my right to be here. A painterly experience.

My heroes that have painted these places have remained constant through the years. I still enjoy seeing paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Gunnar Widforss and Carl Rungius. This painting can be traced to those guys, especially Rungius, who painted in Banff until he died at age 90. I’ve always thought of wilderness painting as an old-man’s game, mainly because there isn’t a swift and sure path to understanding how to do it. If you’re a young painter, it’s easy to get up there. Not so easy to understand how to paint it when you get there. How to paint luminous depth of huge landscapes crammed onto a small piece of linen cloth? It’s not easy. Maybe I’m getting there, maybe I’ll do some more.

Curious about the exact location of this, my reference place in Olympic National Park for this painting? It’s just 30 air miles from my studio in Port Townsend, WA.

This painting is available on my Eifert Gallery Etsy website, free of gallery commission. You can also have it framed as you see it here. Other photos are on my Etsy site. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4564405586/lillian-ridge-divide-larry-eifert

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

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Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

featured, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Wildlife

2026-8-23 Alpine Paintings

August 23, 2026 Brush Man

Two new little oils of summer experiences. I think of them as a journal.

Olympic National Park (next to me here in Port Townsend) has 8 critters found only here – and nowhere else. It’s because the Olympics aren’t connected to any other mountains, so instead of species intermixing from other places, over time they evolved into new ones. The Olympic Chipmunk is especially obvious and a truly fun animal to paint. Perky, I’d call it.

This is available on my Etsy Gallery online. 7″x9″ framed as you see it.

https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4559007112

And a Pika, oil on canvas. Pikas aren’t in the Olympic Mountains, but they sure are in the Cascades. This one was seen on Mt Rainier near Iceberg Lake. They collect grass and flowers, make little haystacks and save it for winter food. This painting, like the Chipmunk, is oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″ and framed as you see it. Shipping is free. This painting is available here.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4552258848/pika-larry-eifert

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

featured, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Wildlife

2026-8-1 Red-breasted Sapsucker

August 2, 2026 Brush Man

On a Hoh Rain Forest Fall hike a few years ago, we had a sapsucker befriend us. A sapsucker-experience! It flew down onto the trail in front of us – and just started walking with us. Didn’t seem to be in a hurry, or on any sort of mission, it just led the way but walked next to us. We thought it was entirely too friendly to be safe, but I now imagine it was looking for insects we might scare up. Scientific, not a hint of the metaphysical experience as probably usual for me. That’s my parent’s fault, I think.

And so, when I saw another sapsucker recently and then painted it, I wondered if it might be the same bird visiting to just check on us. That head and chest color is just unmistakable, like deep wine, and the entire creature was just as striking as it sat on a red-alder. It’s the way with me, get an idea and make a painting.

The idea of the red-alder was my attempt to show the complexity and diversity of these Pacific Northwest forests. Imagine a small bird navigating through all this green-stuff. I think it’s an amazing life to be able to mange it.

This painting is on canvas board, 12″ x 9″ and your choice of frames. Frames are included. It’s a wholesale price, what I’d get if this were in a gallery. I’ve met the best and most interesting people doing it this way. A gallery sale and I wouldn’t met anyone.

2026-6-10, Red-breasted Sapsucker in alder as shown here is available now on my Eifert Gallery on Etsy, Framed for $295, framed and shipping included. A choice of frames, gold or silver.

Link here: https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4545046218

Below is my studio French easel where the painting came to be a couple of days ago. I love this painting space with the wildlife I paint often right outside my windows. Nancy and I somehow share this space, and her paintings can be seen here.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

featured, Hiking, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Washington State Parks

2026-7-24 Tolles Road

July 25, 2026 Brush Man

An original oil painting by Larry Eifert.

I hike a lot, and one of favorite local hikes on the Quimper Peninsula is around the top of Fort Worden in Port Townsend. Plenty of uphill to work the painter’s heart, enough solitude to look for owls and the robins that yell at them. Near the top, where the old gun batteries are, there’s a side dirt service road that has a deep bed of conifer needles, making it shine a warm orange during summer and fall. I just love that shine every time I hike on it. This road was built along with the fort, so I figure those needles have been coming down as long as the forest has been here – a century. So, you can see why I painted this. I see the story, of me on the trail and marveling at the colors.

This painting is an original work of art, not a print, and is 18″ wide and 24″ tall on stretched linen canvas. The 2 1/2″ silver frame is included, making the outside about 23″x29″. The frame is included at our cost and is included in the price, and maybe most of the shipping cost (depending on where you live). A final varnish sealer coat was added to seal the painting. You can buy it on my Etsy Gallery here. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4542176607/tolles-road-larry-eifert

There’s just nothing better for me, an old dirt road in a forest. I just soak up these places. I think it’s the idea of travel itself, going into the unknown and making a memory of it. Walking down this road this afternoon will be like walking into the painting I made a few days ago.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

featured, Nature Art, New Painting Post

Killisut Harbor – Oil on Canvas

July 15, 2026 Brush Man

I think this is a rare place. It almost looks like it could be a painting of a historic landscape, or painted centuries ago. It’s not, and the big Douglas-firs and red-cedars lining the shore (instead of houses) are real. It’s a ten-minute drive from my studio, just across the bridge at The Cut in Chimacum. A couple of years ago, a new, second bridge across the Killisut Channel replaced the stopped up culvert and that has now put this little piece of paradise back to what it was, salmon friendly and a most painterly-scene.

I found it interesting and challenging to paint how the tidal currents have eroded the banks, cutting off some old channels, slicing off an occasional point or two. Many artists would just look at this and paint it as if it’s an inert object – but I’ve always tried to read the story, not just the view. Maybe it’s my parent’s museum background – observe, question and verify. A very complex salt marsh (that’s the ‘grassy’ plant) that dominates this sometimes-submerged meadow.

This is an oil on canvas, 24″x 18″ and framed in a silver wooden frame as you see it. The frame is included, I’m also paying the freight if you buy it through Etsy. Outside measurements are about 29″ x 24″. It’s offered on my Etsy Gallery here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4536397124/killisut-harbor-larry-eifert

No gallery changes, so it’s discounted accordingly (as usual).

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

featured, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Wildlife

2026-7-9 A New Painting

July 9, 2026 Brush Man

Some free time between commissions. We currently have a family of American goldfinches here in our meadow, hanging out around the pond, on the hanging feeder. Just such an astonishing color to see in the dark conifer forest, I just had to make a painting of the ongoing experience. This is a small painting, 5″x7″, framed makes it to about 7″x9″ on the outside and it looks somewhat like the real thing, the male I saw here last evening!

Some painting details some might be interested in: The underpainting is a mix of much lighter sienna and ochre, giving it all an impression of a painting that might be a couple of hundred years old. Over the acrylic underpainting, I used oil, mostly Van Dyke brown on the background with some sap green mixed in on that top part. I brought a blow-down branch in from our forest with some lichens on it, but didn’t want to burden it with too much detail that might take away from the bird. No drawing, just went at it with my brush. I can easily go crazy for a branch with lichen on it. Heck, I could fill up an entire wall with lichens and branches.

This painting is at wholesale price, framed with free shipping on my Etsy gallery here. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4517973025/american-goldfinch-larry-eifert

And don’t tell me it’s too cheap.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

Commissioned paintings, featured, Interpretive Art, Nature Art, New Painting Post, People Paintings

Meerkerk Gardens – A bunch of art

July 7, 2026 Brush Man

2026-7 Meerkerk Gardens is in the Freeland/Greenbank area northwest of the Seattle area on Whidbey Island. For the past couple of months I’ve been working on these 9 paintings for this public garden, the testing garden for the Seattle Rhododendron Society’s new hybrids. I’ve gotten to know the people and place and if I come back with any say of how I’d live, I’ll pick living here – in the old Meerkerk house surrounded by acres of old Douglas-fir and blooming rhodies. It’s a rare place.

That said, I got to paint this wonderful place for new outdoor wayside panels – and make portraits of some of the people responsible for it.

These will be plaques under the rhododendrons they created. I believe Yasmin Workman is the only surviving member of this group. These are acrylic on paper.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

Early Paintings, featured, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Wildlife

2026-6-18 Two New Small Oils

June 18, 2026 Brush Man

We’ve been working out in the West End of the Olympics, but are back now so I can post a few new paintings.

20126-6-10, Wilson’s Warbler in Salmonberry shown here is available now on my Eifert Gallery on Etsy, Framed for $295, framed and shipping included. A choice of frames, gold or silver. Link here: https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4519691981

This beautiful bird was bathing in our pond, so I made a painting of it.

Below, “2026-6-4 Cascade” is a 9″x12″ oil, taken from spring runoff ‘cascades’ that are right up the hill from our studio. It’s just so typical of Olympic seasonal runoff cascades, big crashing impressive water, then gone as the snow melts.

Framed for $295, framed and shipping included. A choice of frames, gold or silver. Link here: https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4502106382

Here’s the same painting in my studio.

Studio shot of Cascades showing my great place to paint. Lots of nature light, a deep forest right outside, and I’m appreciative of every inch.

See that wooden cedar breadboard on the wall with the snowshoe hare drawing on it? That was made by me in 1968 in my first studio/gallery in Waubaushene, Ontario Canada (population 321 in winter. The place was so small I painted on my fold-out bed. I was 21 and used to go to the post office using my husky team and a sled! There were two power poles there and I’d tie the team lead dog to one pole, the sled to the other. I couldn’t give ANY of them a chance to break loose or they’d be gone.

A note about my pricing. Everyone keeps saying how inexpensive these paintings are, but here’s the point. I get almost all the money, no gallery takes commission (which is 50% and sometimes more). So, I get the same as I would in a gallery, but the selling price is half. A $300 painting would sell for $600. AND, I get to meet all of you, a personal connection lost to gallery artists. It also opens up a group of people who want my work but usually can’t afford it. It’s a way of selling art I very much enjoy.

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.

Larry Eifert

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.

Here’s my Facebook fan page. I post lots of other stuff there.

And Instagram is here.

Click here to go to our main website.

Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

And here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website.

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!

Commissioned paintings, featured, Interpretive Art, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Waysides

Freeland Beach Restoration Project

March 19, 2026 Brush Man

The first wayside panel of several more to come, this is going on Freeland Beach, a county shoreside park that has just rebuilt their beach to accommodate forage fish. Sure, people get to be here as well, but this is yet another effort to save endangered Orca whales in Puget Sound. Freeland is on Whidbey Island, just east of my studio here in Port Townsend, Washington.

Here’s the jobsite on the beach, an ancient wayside’s soon to be replaced by my new panel.

Just looks like a beach, doesn’t it? But there are good beaches for little fish, and not-so-good ones. The idea is make the beach useful for safety and spawning for little several kinds of small forage fish. These are small, schooling fish that serve as a vital food source for larger predators. Eaten by salmon, then the salmon are caught by orca – because orca are starving. This map below shows the three forage fish species, blue, green and red. The beach is right in the middle of the map.