PADDLEBOARD TRAFFIC JAM

http://www.aloha.com/~lifeguards/hla.html

There is a daily traffic Jam of Paddleboarders

at Ala Moana Beach Park

This is my first study.

A PART OF THE MAIN

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.

John Donne, Meditation XVII

English clergyman & poet (1572 - 1631)

 

Okay so that's a little over the top to explain a poor disjointed composition of random rocks and people.

Somehow, though, they are all connected, all part of the main.

Two Nuts in a Tree

Two clear Ways to Skin a Cat

Two more innings, up to bat

Two hundred times I've painted That

Two nuts in a Tree

Two Thousand Palm trees swaying slow

How's a girl supposed to know

When just one is "okay fine"

and leave the other nut behind

Life Saving Station WAIKIKI VIEW

Painting at Ala Moana Beach Park on March 20th 2010

I met the most wonderful people.

Everyday in Oahu you experience the Aloha Spirit.

Thank you Randy, Don and Brandon for visiting with me

on that beautiful day at the beach.

prints available for $50

Punalu'u Beach Park

Punalu'u Beach Park off of Kamehameha Highway is a great stopping point for Plein aire artists.
We had the luxury of a view with the native trees against the waters edge. There are tons of options on views looking towards Kaaawa or the other direction to Hauula. There is also the grand direction of the mountains, making the whole scene a joy to behold.

I am still in awe after 6 months here painting. I can't get enough of Oahu. Thank heavens for this place.

MAP OF THE HAWAII ISLANDS

Brandon says it is a pretty common tattoo ...it is quite interesting.

Still, it would be necessary to spend money on GPS since you can't look at your map

without a rear view mirror.

Brandon was a sweet heart to pose for me. He is back here from the Mainland and looking for a job in his field as an Industrial Designer. I would say he is worth his weight in gold. Smart, humble and just an all around nice guy.

PIER 38 HONOLULU HAWAII

PIER 38

Honolulu

Hawaii

super fantastic

little seafood lunch

spots at an extremely

clean pier location

prints available

ABSTRACT STATION 1B

SOLD TO PRIVATE COLLECTOR

prints available

OUTRIGGER STUDY

OUTRIGGERS

ARTIST ON THE ISLAND Mark N Brown's Painting

Mark Brown Painted this on Sunday

It is an awesome painting of Waimea Bay

This is my favorite beach on O'ahu

how to paint an outrigger

Outrigger at Kailua

watercolor crayons

no matter what you want to paint you must get familiar with it

draw it

color it

paint it

over

and over

until

like Picasso's Bulls

the image is everywhere

and it flows from your fingers

to the paint brush

like your signature flows

from your pen.

I drew this with watercolor crayon and then touched it up with water to flow.

I just wanted another chance to know that scene at Kailua

and the angles of the Outriggers.

NOT A GREAT PAINTING

just a learning tool

TO SLEEP OR PAINT

I NEED A STUDIO

I often look at a website called "ABOUT.COM painting". It is a very informative website and I make comments and contribute whenever possible. Recently Marion Boddy-Evans (who writes the website) wanted to see pictures of artist studio spaces. She asked for the artist to NOT CLEAN UP before taking a picture.





The painting that was completed on my bed was another of Kailua Beach Park
with the outriggers on the dunes.

KAILUA BEACH PARK

KAILUA BEACH PARK

Early on a Saturday before the rest of the world is up, before the rest of the world has made coffee and climbed out of their FRIDAY NIGHT up too lateness, there is Kailua Beach Park.

Alive and kicking with runners and yoga experts, outrigger racers of all shapes and sizes, children in bright colored swimwear and the plein air painters dotting the horizon.

Ho'omaluhia Plein Air Painting

SOLD

What an awesome day of birds singing, blue skies, cathedral-like mountain scenes,palms swaying, mongoose snatching, green on green on beauty day.



Please visit this location if you can. The park service has done a wonderful job of keeping this place pristine. You are allowed to camp overnight here but it does NOT feel like a campground.



There is a lake, and labeled examples of all types of vegetation.



Please go there to be in awe of this wonder.

Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens

Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens

Can't describe it

no words can do

it justice

outriggers resting

1B

1B Life Guard Station
at ala moana beach park
painted March 20, 2010

Saturday at Ala Moana Beach Park is like ONE BIG FAMILY reunion.
The locals set up CAMP for their families and there are tents everywhere you look.
The paddleboarders are coming and going constantly and the moms and dads wash
their naked babies in the public shower under the palms. There is food under all the tents
and a lot of beautiful big hawaiian men overseeing the proceedings. I fall in love with
Hawaii all over again when I paint at Ala Moana Park on a Saturday.

VIDA MIA

I am still working on this painting, need to add the FISHERMAN WHARF sign.

PADDLEBOARDS AT ALA MOANA PARK

PADDLEBOARDS

I post these paintings often unfinished. (paddleboards are not painted yet)

But I was so excited that I had to post this. I don't know why I love it so, but the whole purple

background makes me happy. The Turquoise SEA and the PURPLE SKY, sort of how you feel

when you fall in love.

HONOLULU COUNTRY CLUB

Honolulu Country Club

AHA Spring Fever

ART SHOW

5 paintings from around the island of O'ahu

by Rebecca Snow Cleghorn

RED CAT ON BLUE WATER

Mark Brown and I went to Magic Island to paint for a couple of hours yesterday.

We got to meet one of the Stars that is shooting the new Hawaii 5-O Movie.

William Sadler was lovely company and watched Mark and I paint for about an hour.

Nice people Nice places to paint. LOVE HONOLULU.

I painted the Catamarran that rests near the shore. While we were there a Bride

and her Husband-t0-be were getting their wedding shots photographed.

So much going on but still IN THE ZONE. I love painting outside in Honolulu

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR ROLE , WILLIAM SADLER! GREAT TO MEET YOU!

GOT PUBLISHED

http://painting.about.com/u/ua/artglossaryu/tips-time.htm

Okay it's not a Fiction Romance Best seller, but I did get my little comment posted to
a very good Painting site called "ABOUT PAINTING.com"
HOW FUN IS THAT!

Sarah Marshall? DUH Can't remember her

There was a movie, I think it was called Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I hope I have that title right, it is rare for me to watch a movie and I never finished watching that one.

I did finished the painting that I started there, there at Turtle Bay with my magic french easel

and my acrylic paints. I loved painting there, but would have been okay with the option of

sitting under an umbrella with a Mai Tai and dreaming of ....my next Mai Tai~~~~hmmmmmm

WAIKIKI FROM KAPIOLANI PARK

KAPIOLANI PARK

VIEW

of

WAIKIKI

Kapiolani Park is on the Diamond Head side of Waikiki.

This week the local gov't got all the TENT PEOPLE

out of Kapiolani Park and for the most part they all moved

down to Ala Moana Park. I noticed around noon that

they started to come back....even though their tents

are not allowed , they still want to have lunch at HOME.

One of the guys that lives in the park took a look at my

painting right before he sprawled out his beach mat

beside the public restroom wall and took a snooze.

The birds bothered him a little but he seemed content

as he snored in with a roar and out with a unique blowing

of the beard.

I realize this is NOT what you see in the painting.

Nor do you see the 4 groups of lovely Japanese School

girls who bowed when they politely asked to take my picture.

Nor do you see the Hawaiian man with the island accent, deep dark brown

skin and yellow sunglasses for eyes. Nor do you see the man in the

motorized wheel chair who told me this joke " why are the palm trees crooked?

answer--because the gov't planted them."

Nor do you see the life guard station with the lovely young female lifeguard,

or the crazy lady that kept yelling "Richard Sansalvador" randomly , or the pigeons that

were sneaking up on me to steal my breakfast burrito , or the cool Dad walking

with his family and playing the Ukulele and singing a lovely ballad.

yep, it looks so serene and relaxing...

but

paradise can be a little chaotic to manage, everyone wants to pitch their tent in it.

GRAZIE GIRLS

I am all about going to this little PLACE for coffee. I met the owner and he is FUN and WILD.
Take a look at his GRAZIE GIRLS on his restaurant website
http://www.graziehawaii.com/About_Caffe_Grazie.html

darling little HOLE IN THE WALL

okay, it's not finished but I was painting outside in the CRAZY wind and RAIN..really.

I should get a BADGE for this. I am the boyscout of Painters.

Again , this is the little hole in the wall COCKTAIL BAR that will soon be a Pizza BOB's.

It is just so cute I can't stand it.

Mark Brown (my teacher, mentor and friend) also painted this joint the day before.

When and if I ever paint this good I will be dancing around like a big proud rooster!

take a look at this and feel free to offer up some money before Pizza Bob buys it!

COCKTAIL BAR versus PIZZA BOB

Okay , I got the scoop from a passer by with no teeth , so I could barely make out the details,

but it seems that PIZZA BOB of Haliewa is going to lease the big Fisherman's Wharf building.

SO,

PIZZA IN COMING to the Kewalo Basin area.

I live in Kaka'ako and I am all about the PIZZA.

BUT , with all that said, let's all paint a picture of this little drinker's paradise before it is gone for good.

AND if we have money leftover after we purchase a pizza, we need to buy that dude some TEEF!

Fisherman's Wharf in Honolulu

COCKTAIL BAR



This is the cocktail bar beside the Fisherman's Wharf in Honolulu. I was painting it today in the rain and a young surfer guy drove up and stopped on his way to the beach. He asked what I was painting and I told him. He said" wow, that is an historical building from the 60's". I had to smile when I told him to be a little gentle with the grandmas. The reference to HISTORICAL and 60's in the same sentence was a bit much for me to handle. He laughed and apologized and drove off in his beat up old mercedes with his curly blonde hair blowing in the wind.

Yep this old building had it's hayday. It is well remembered. A new generation comes along to call it an antique. OUCH! I AM THAT OLD BUILDING!



I did hear later that day from some bikers that came by in the rain that this building has been sold and will be a pizza joint.



I sure am glad I got pictures of it before the transformation takes place. It is only a hole in the wall but I am sure it was a place of fun over looking Kewalo Basin Marina.

Palms --- 2500 varieties

The Saturday morning Plein aire group paints with MARK BROWN from the University of Hawaii program . His demos are amazing and this week we went to the Botanical garden to paint GREEN on GREEN. The picture above is of a ravine area that overlooks the giant palm and Savannah trees. I will have to get you some more information about this garden because they have an unbelievable amount of orchids growing there. I can't wait to see those in bloom.

Hale Koa

Hale Koa is the hotel for the military. Where there is Military, there are BARS...go figure.

I love the outdoor bar area at the Hale Koa. You'd think I could meet a rich ADMIRAL to date.

I need to paint less and drink more I suppose!

Well , this is a shout out to those at the Mai Tai Bar at the lovely Hale Koa, tell all those Generals and Admirals that I like my Mai Tais with TWO umbrellas.