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2026-8-1 Red-breasted Sapsucker

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.

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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

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!

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Killisut Harbor – Oil on Canvas

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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!

Interpretive Art, Murals, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Waysides, Wildlife

2026-4-25 New Paintings

I just finished wayside panel #2 for Island County’s Freeland Beach Park. It matches the first panel I posted a couple of weeks ago and replaces a worn-out 25 yr old panel. It’s about how Puget Sound bluffs continually make beaches, keep them healthy and support an entire ecosystem. Fun making this one up. This panel will outlive me, I’m sure, because it’ll be printed on aluminum.

Pacific Wren is a new oil on canvas, taken from life, this little guy was singing it’s heart out right here in our forest. It’s frame is 7″x9″.

Pacific Wren is available here, framed as you see it for $125, postage free.

And the same Pacific Wren made it into a second painting as it sat on a pile of moss and lichen. There’s a stick under that it has claws firmly attached to. I think the pair are nice together.

This painting is available here on my Etsy gallery. Pacific Wren on Moss is 7″x9″ outside measurements, framed as you see it for $125 shipping included.

These little birds were called Winter Wren until a couple of years ago when the pros renamed them. Personally, I liked the ‘Winter Wren name because they don’t migrate – so I got to enjoy them all year long. And you’d never, ever see one of these guys out in the Pacific Ocean hanging out with the sea otters.

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!

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Freeland Beach Restoration Project

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.

So, enough science and thanks for reading to here. Here’s the panel sketch with my initial text.

And below the new beach with logs, beach grasses and other native plantings.

And finally, below, here’s a new painting on my Etsy Eifert Gallery, still available as of 3-19-2026. Here’s the link if you want to see more.

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!

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2026-3 New Paintings from Larry Eifert

Several new efforts here from the same on-going series of small oils on canvas board. This week I sort of jumped all over the ideas, as you can see, because I’m also onto bigger park projects now. These small paintings are all either 5″x7″ (framed outside is 7″x9″), or 6″x6″ as with the square one. All are currently available on my Etsy Gallery. They’re all $125 framed and freight-free. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com

The top painting is a chestnut-backed chickadee, a local guy I see every day here. I had another project going on that needed a mossy log and found this great example down our driveway. The mushrooms are inky caps, but young enough they weren’t really ‘inky’ yet. Here’s a link if you’re interested. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4469193245

This second painting, American dipper, is a little portrait of a gray bird on a gray rock. These little guys are river-specialists, walking underwater to find food, nesting behind waterfalls – and John Muir’s favorite bird. Maybe mine, too. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4468115377

This trail is right around the corner from our place in Port Townsend, in a state park with some of the best forest trails I know. I originally made the right side dense with ferns and salal, a rhododendron – but changed it to a more simple scene to focus on the trail. 6″x6″ canvas, it’s available here: https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4464943181

And finally I was trying to remember a special spot on the Upper Dungeness River, about 25m south of home. I get that way in late winter. I was there last fall when the late afternoon sun was streaming in and lighting up the river with golden afternoon sun. The big glacial erratic rock had me sitting on it, so I reversed the scene as if I were on the far shore. This one is available here. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4466197478

Below: A new little bonus portrait of my partner of many decades, Nancy Cherry. It’s acrylic on watercolor paper, and it was painted on a little card for her birthday. Happy Birthday, my partner in life, as well as countless trails and places I’ve painted in a very long and fantastic ride of being an artist.

Nancy Cherry Eifert, March 2, 2026.

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!