{"id":3074,"date":"2014-12-03T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2014-12-03T08:42:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:42:22","slug":"rufous-sided-towhee-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/rufous-sided-towhee-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Rufous-sided Towhee Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Towhee-on-Leader\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sorry, it’s sold. “Rufous-sided Towhee Study” is an acrylic on board, 6″x 9″ and is offered in an 12″ x 15″ frame for $145, frame included. And we have several different frame styles.<\/em><\/p>\n

These guys always\u00a0look agitated and eccentric, so that’s what I tried to paint.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have multiple families of these tail-flickers here at the\u00a0studio. Always a pleasure to watch, we’ve come\u00a0to recognize individuals by where they sit in the afternoon sunning themselves near a favorite hiding spot. Bold and vigorous, they flick those big tails, back and forth, up and down, as if that’ll impress someone. Maybe me.<\/p>\n

Here’s the teachable moment, at least for me.<\/strong> We’ve come to realize the real value of ‘backyard’ birds isn’t just the entertainment, beauty and activity they provide out our windows, but a gauge of how vibrant and healthy a place is. When we moved in here many years ago, the last guy had a dog, sprayed lots of stuff, Roundup, soil sterilizers, you name it. He offered us\u00a0about 10 sprayers and claimed I’d sure need them – apple spray, cherry spray, and when I asked him if he actually got cherries he said no. Time moved on, we didn’t spray, didn’t have an outside dog – and the wildlife eventually came to us in a very big way. Countless paintings of our ‘locals’ have ‘flown’ out the studio door because of the closeup wildlife we have for models. If you read this blog, you see that fairly consistently. I’m convinced that it’s not where we live as much as how we’ve treated our land and its residents. We’re a family here, although sometimes kids can get a bit unruly (take for instance that 220 lb. buck that came through last night).<\/p>\n

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\"Towhee-on-Leader\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here it is again: This ORIGINAL painting,\u00a0“Rufous-sided Towhee Study” is an acrylic on board, 6″x 9″ and is offered framed in an 12″ x 15″ frame (outside measurements) for $145, frame included.\u00a0and shipping adds just a bit more depending on your zone. This is the original painting, NOT a print.
\nEmail <\/a>us for details.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

Here’s the blog on the web.<\/a>\u00a0 And here’s my Facebook fan page<\/a>.\u00a0I post lots of other stuff there.<\/p>\n

Click <\/a>here to go to our main website – with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n

Nancy’s web portfolio of beautiful photographs<\/a><\/p>\n

And\u00a0Click<\/a> here to go to Virginia Eifert’s website. Her books are now becoming available as Amazon Kindle books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry, it’s sold. “Rufous-sided Towhee Study” is an acrylic on board, 6″x 9″ and is offered in an 12″ x 15″ frame for $145, frame included. And we have several different frame styles. These guys always\u00a0look agitated and eccentric, so that’s what I tried to paint.\u00a0 We have multiple families of these tail-flickers here at … Continue reading Rufous-sided Towhee Study<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3736,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,125],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-easel-paintings","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}