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Acrylic paintings, Backpacking, featured, Hiking, Larry Eifert, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post

2026-11-4 Gray Wolf Headwaters

I finished this painting last week – its destination unknown right now. For now, I’m just going to enjoy it in my studio. It’s 48″ x 24″, acrylic on canvas.

On a hike this past fall, I came across this place. It’s not on any trail, and a guy my age probably shouldn’t have been up there, especially hiking solo, but the experience made it all worth it. This is at treeline in Olympic National Park, and these little blue tarns empty into the valley below and join waters to become the famed Gray Wolf River. It then joins the Dungeness River to empty into the ocean at Sequim. It’s one of the highest, shortest and biggest drops of any river in the U.S. The peaks of the Upper Dungeness and Royal Basin – some of the highest mountains in the Olympics, can be seen in the distance, one ridge over. In the distance, I was looking up at Deception Peak at 7788 feet, second tallest mountain in the Olympics (right in the middle of the painting) and Mt Mystery to the right at 7639 feet. They’re just numbers, but to me much more.

These mountains, the closest alpine area to my home in Port Townsend, is all less than 40 air miles away. I know this place well, and have, over the years, made it my source painting models for many paintings. Those valleys in the mist, the rivers, meadows, trails and trees have thrilled me for over half a century.

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Larry Eifert

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Acrylic paintings, Larry Eifert, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Small oil studies, Wildlife, Wildlife Portraits

2026-11-2 New Paintings

A Misty Falls from a seasonal falls in Olympic National Park. A new acrylic/oil mix that’s now available on my Eifert Gallery site. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4608555028/misty-falls-larry-eifert

I like the messiness of this painting, just how I hoped to show what nature is really like. 6″ x 6″ canvas in an 8″x8″ frame.

My halloween painting of the local spotted towhee, grubbing around in the fall red-alder leaves right outside my studio. This guy is so brash as to be almost a costume. It’s available here: https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4603864592/spotted-towhee-larry-eifert

Red-backed Vole, an acrylic on canvas and framed as you see it here. These guys must have had a real ‘hatchout’ in our meadow because I see them everywhere – and so a painting happened. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4599616056/red-backed-vole-larry-eifert

And, one of the two dark-eyed juncos that live right next to my studio window. They’ve been there for years, a real married couple. I’m sure they nest several times a season, but the kids don’t push them out after the fledge. Here’s the link to my Gallery, and there are lots more available there. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4599621958/dark-eyed-junco-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!

Acrylic paintings, featured, Larry Eifert, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Wildlife, Wildlife Portraits

2026-10-5 Small Paintings

Some new small paintings of some of my favorite painting models, the wildlife in our little meadow here on the Olympic Peninsula. These are all originals on canvas, framed as shown and available on my Eifert Gallery on Etsy.

The first painting (above) is of a cocky little downy woodpecker that has found the big red-alder that recently died of old age. The bark is falling off, a perfect woodpecker tree. Some of the square pileated holes are huge, but this little guy was more dainty about it. This painting is 9″x12″ with a bigger frame as you see it. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4591290008/downy-woodpecker-larry-eifert

Swainson’s Thrush portrait, painted from a this little guy who was taking a bath in our little pond. I get such joy from that little bit of water. 5″ x 7″ on canvas, framed as you see it and freight free. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4576604599/swainsons-thrush-portrait-larry-eifert

And two more little studies, acrylic on canvas, a chestnut-backed chickadee moving through the mossy branches here. 5″x7″ on canvas board, framed and available on my web gallery store. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4590050387/chestnut-backed-chickadee-larry-eifert

And this savannah sparrow I saw at the boat yard in town. I originally thought it was a song sparrow, but then saw the yellow on its head. It was sitting on a dried fennel stalk – see the stalk’s joints? Savannah’s are cousins to song sparrows, same delightful voice. This is 5″x7″ on canvas board, framed and freight free. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4578778921/savannah-sparrow-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, Interpretive Art, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post, Waysides

2026-10-3 Sol Duc Cascades

I have a lot of paintings along Olympic National Park’s Sol Duc Road. They’re all interpretive signs and exhibits, a total of17 of them. One is here at Salmon Cascades and is seen by many, and is a view of what’s under the water here beneath the falls. I put an outdoor camera down beneath the water to scope it out – and found it was really very calm, salmon swimming in short circles getting the nerve up to jump.

I recently realized I’d never painted the falls for an easel painting, even if the installation is right next to it – so here it is. Oil on canvas, 24″ x 18″, framed or not and available now on my Eifert Gallery site. The frame as shown here puts the size at about 29″ x 23″. I’ve also listed it without the frame.

https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4577927953

As of October 5, 2926, this painting is still available.

No gallery markup here, and I can give you a variety of frames, silver or gold as you see it.

And here’s the wayside sign with Nancy playing the tourist. Yes, those fish really are that color. Several years ago at this time of year, we saw circling salmon just below Sol Duc Falls, miles upstream from here. I’d never seen them that far up, stopped by that big drop of water.

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, Interpretive Art, Nature Art, Small oil studies, Wildlife

2026-9-23 New Little Paintings

Three new paintings, small efforts in oil or acrylic on canvas. They’re all 6:x6″ on canvas. These two mediums paint very differently, so in some ways this was a comparison to getting two root canals. I seem to be settling into the acrylic mode for now since I’m also involved with a long list of park projects, all painted in acrylic except the Salmon Cascades which is in oil.

All are currently available on my Etsy Gallery, but probably won’t last very long. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com

The top one of the little red-backed vole: I was doing research on this little guy and realized I’d never actually made a proper painting of these really common forest critters. I see them in my own forest all the time, but usually running for cover. I put a Claytonia in bloom to show how small the vole really is. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4579817302/red-backed-vole-larry-eifert

This is a painting of Salmon Cascades in Olympic National Park. Just to the left is one of my wayside panels with a painting of what’s under the water here, salmon swimming in circles waiting to jump. Countless people have photographed that panel after not seeing any salmon. Now here’s a little painting of the same place. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4573415041/salmon-cascades-larry-eifert

And a little 6″x6″ of a savannah sparrow, another research painting for a park project. Savannah’s are close cousins of song sparrows, the little yellow patches the only clear giveaway of who it is. I like the shift of color from sunny side to shadow blues and greens. It’s available here. https://eifertgallery.etsy.com/listing/4578778921/savannah-sparrow-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!

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

Gladys Lake – Olympic National Park

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.

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, National Park Service, Nature Art, New Painting Post

2026-8-26 Lillian Ridge Divide

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.

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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2026-8-23 Alpine Paintings

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

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

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!