{"id":13880,"date":"2025-05-08T08:22:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=13880"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T01:25:58","slug":"2025-4-20-robins-nest-oil-on-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/2025-4-20-robins-nest-oil-on-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-4-20 Robins Nest – oil on canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Easy to understand my motivation for THIS painting. It’s spring, nature’s renewal, Two robins getting mud in along our pond’s edge so I suspect a nest – and the Indian plum has its early leaves on. I can’t locate the nest, but no big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a common method for me, that of seeing a story happening in nature, then making a painting to tell that story. In this one, I tried to make the robins feel like newly weds, unsure of what to do, unsure of how all this happens. Translating it into a believable painting takes some thought. Even the soft color values might translate into patience.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Below, this rough concept drawing below shows how I went about this. No details to speak of in the drawing, just blocky shapes around the page. There’s more direction here than might meet with understanding – like how the center of interest hits the perfect spot where the top of the nest will be, where those brilliant robin’s-egg blue eggs are. Or the two large triangular areas of nothingness, pulling the viewer’s eyes to that nest area.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is an original oil painting on stretched linen canvas, varnished and ready to hang. The canvas is 18″x24″ and the 2 1\/2″ silver museum frame goes with it, making the outside dimensions 23″ x 29″. As usual for this size, I’m offering it for $1300 plus shipping costs which will probably be standard UPS rates. I have a double box ready to go. If you’re interested in learning more, please email me at larry@larryeifert.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The painting captures the essence of spring renewal, illustrating robins as newlyweds navigating their experience. The artist employs a narrative approach, focusing on composition and colors to evoke patience. The original oil piece on 18″x24″ stretched linen canvas is offered for $1300, plus shipping. Interested viewers can contact the artist via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[481,3,6],"tags":[34,42,194,68,82,92,125],"class_list":["post-13880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature-art","category-new-painting-post","category-wildlife","tag-easel-paintings","tag-featured","tag-larry-eifert","tag-mountains","tag-olympic","tag-port-townsend","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2025-4-20-Robins-Nest-18x24-featured-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13880"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13899,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880\/revisions\/13899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}