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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<\/a> and are framed for $125, shipping included. If you’re on your phone, here’s a bigger link. https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/eifertgallery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Nuthatch in the Lichen<\/a>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chestnut-backed Chickadee<\/a>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swainson’s Thrush<\/a>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forest Trail<\/a>
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chickadee<\/a>
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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading this week. You can sign up for emails for these posts on my website at larryeifert.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is my Etsy site with my currently available paintings for easy sale.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s my Facebook fan page<\/a>. I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Instagram is here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click<\/a> <\/a>here to go to our main website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy\u2019s web portfolio of stunning photography and paintings.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here to go to Virginia Eifert\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or Crater Lake Institute’s website which I also build – viewership of several million a month!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new collection of oil paintings is now available on Etsy for $125 each, including shipping. The works feature local wildlife and landscapes, inspired by personal observations and commissioned pieces. The artist finds joy in capturing nature\u2019s details, creating paintings that serve as daily journals of their experiences in Port Townsend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14078,"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":[492,481,3,487,253,6],"tags":[34,42,194,86,92,125],"class_list":["post-14071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nature-art","category-new-painting-post","category-small-oil-studies","category-washington-state-parks","category-wildlife","tag-easel-paintings","tag-featured","tag-larry-eifert","tag-parks","tag-port-townsend","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-2-17-Nuthatch-Lichens-framed.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071","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=14071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14083,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14071\/revisions\/14083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}