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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).

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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.

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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.

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Larry Eifert

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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.

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Larry Eifert

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Rufous Hummingbird oil on canvas

I just counted these little oils and it appears I’ve painted 35 of them in 2026. I must like doing it, or else I’m just goofed up on the paint fumes. I started these last fall in an effort to get a little better at oils, and I think I’m getting there.

These three are now available on my Eifert Gallery on Etsy, $125 each, framed as you see them here. Shipping is free. The gold frame is 7″x 9″ on the outside measurement. They’re all still available as of April 10, 2026.

This painting is now sold. Sorry.

As I’ve said, these are all sort of a journal of my experiences. We have Anna’s Hummingbirds here year-round, but recently here came this Rufous Hummingbird male soon followed by a mate. Bedlam on the feeders. So I made a painting of the male. That’s a LOT of feathers for such a little bird.

This second effort is a local trail in a local state park, a patch of old growth forest I always enjoy. Forests are so complicated and I enjoy figuring out how to simply them. This one I named ‘Dark Trail’. Here it is in the gallery.

These two square paintings are oil on canvas, outside frame measurements are both 8″x8″. Shipping is included. $125 each.

This last oil I called Sunset Trail, but it’s really the same trail a few hundred yards uphill from the painting above. Same size, same price as the other. Here’s the gallery link.

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Larry Eifert

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

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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.

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Larry Eifert

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Small Original Oils Continue

Another group of new oil paintings are now available. These little guys are now competing with larger park and shoreline restoration art projects, but I enjoy making these. I think all of them worked pretty well. All are on my Etsy Gallery here and are framed for $125, shipping included. If you’re on your phone, here’s a bigger link. https://www.etsy.com/shop/eifertgallery

Nuthatch in the Lichen
This was inspired by a commission for two lichen-loving ladies in Minnesota. While doing lichen-research out in our forest here in Port Townsend, I had some good lichen models and so made this, a second painting. Yes, the Red-breasted Nuthatch was there wondering what I was doing.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Most of the shrubs are still bare this time of year, but with buds showing on a few. I found this Nootka Rose a great model.

Swainson’s Thrush
Nope, not here yet, but the other day I thought I heard th amazing song-spiral of a Swainson’s just at dusk. Could it be? Still pretty early for these songsters to be here, but I could hope – and make this painting.

Forest Trail
is in Fort Townsend State Park, about a mile from the studio. This is Big Tree Trail, which it sure is. Many of these big trees are well into old-growth status, and some show fire scars. which means over a century old. I get a charge out of figuring h out trunk colors, cool blue on the shadow side as it reflects sky colors, and warm yellow on the sunnier side, reflecting sun beams.

Chickadee
Just down the Big Trees Trail (above), there’s a small Douglas-fir that died last year, and already the woodpeckers and sapsuckers are into it. Nature does not like anything not being used, so now I’ve seen chickadees inspecting the woodpecker holes for possible nesting sites later in spring. And suddenly there’s a painting about it all. That’s sort of my life these days, painting oil paintings as daily journals. All of these are almost ready for varnish and framing.

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A Few More Journal Paintings

I’m back to painting a large acrylic National Park ‘mural’ for Thomas Stone National Historical Park, but still moving forward with these little oils. Quite the challenge of switching from oil to acrylics and back throughout the day. These are all available and $125 each, including the frame. Shipping is free.

Pacific Wren: This top painting is available here on my Etsy store. 7″x9″ framed as you see it, oil on canvas. My model was right outside on the mossy log I’ve painted before.

Then this square little Chestnut-backed Chickadee came from the same place, a rotten red-alder that has been torn apart by the woodpeckers. This one is 9″x9″ framed as you see it, and available here on Etsy.

Wilson’s Warbler is also new this week, varnish isn’t even on it yet. I was interested in loosening up the feather structure details and how the foot gripped that little twig – wrapped it. I loved the contrast with the frame color – like the entire thing is glowing. Wilson’s Warbler is available here.

When I started to seriously paint back in the 1970’s, my method was to go out and park beside a country lane that held promising ideas. I learned to paint this way, making an average of 250 paintings a year, most of them by sitting beside dirt roads. It appears to have become a habit, because here I am, decades later and getting involved much the same way with these little oils. Back then it was gauche and watercolors but now it’s oils on canvas in the studio. Judging by the dozens I’ve found homes for in the past couple of months, I think I’m getting better at it. Want to see one of those 50 yr old paintings. Here it is, available on Ebay for $447.00.

I also now have a few others available there, too. Here’s my entire Eifert Gallery store listing: https://eifertgallery.etsy.com

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Larry Eifert

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Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

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More Explorations in Little Oil Paintings

These are framed original oils and all quite reasonable. All are either 7″x9″ or 8″x8″ outside measurements and available on my Etsy Gallery. They are currently all available for $125 each. Here’s a direct link to the Northern Flicker shown above.

This one is of a big log we have here, and a very little chickadee probing for insects. A good story of wildlife finding a meal. Here’s the link to Chickadee – Big Log.

Big Tree Trail is a local favorite place of mine. I was there just a few days ago, so, made a painting of my time there. Here’s a link to it on my Etsy Gallery.

American Robin – a flock of these wintering birds were in our meadow recently. This far north, it’s rare to see them here, but it’s been a mild winter. This painting is 8″x8″ framed as you see it. More details are over on my Etsy Gallery.

There are also a few others there. These don’t seem to be lasting long, so if you have interest in any of these, you might now want to hesitate.

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Larry Eifert

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

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Nancy’s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.

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Some more small oil paintings

Purple Finch portrait. Click the link to get to my store on Etsy. Outside frame measurements are 7″x9″. This finch was a regular on the seed feeder all last summer. I’d see it often on the old madrona log in our nearby pond, jumping between the pond and little waterfall where all our birds go for baths. They properly wait turns, and this guy did so as well. Good manners. Maybe if I paint it, we’ll see this little guy again. All these are my usual, framed as you see them for $125, free shipping in the US.

The easiest and cheapest way to purchase these:
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet.

I’m really enjoying making these small oils. I look forward to making more, which is happening almost as I write this.

Anna’s Hummingbird portrait

Long-billed Dowitcher on a winter pond.

Townsend Chipmunk in the Miner’s Lettuce – what a meal.

 

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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!