SURFER GIRL

Surfer Girl

11x14 acrylic on Canvas

$175.00

Tucked away along the North Shore of O'ahu are several life guard stations.

This one is a favorite of  mine. If you find it , you'll find me, painting and swimming

and flirting with the lifeguards.

KANEOHE BAY GIRLS by REBECCA SNOW

write me if you've been to Kaneohe Bay

watercolor by Rebecca Snow -plein air artist on O'ahu

The Sandbar Girls at Kaneohe

watercolor

$150.00

not too deep in the ocean

not too far out to sea

always too much of a good thing

that's where you'll always find me

Kula Kai AGAIN

black and white study of the Kula Kai

Kula Kai at Kewalo Basin in Honolulu

watercolor on 300 lb paper

$250.00

Ken Hosmer
taught a class for the Hawaii Watercolor Society.
I am excited to say that is was spectacular.
If you ever get a chance to take a lesson with him...do it.

Bishop on the Ukulele

At Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu,
 not too far from the busy streets of Waikiki,
there sits Bishop on his Ukulele.
 He sang for me a while back and I finally painted his picture.
I have to still add some background, but I like it just as is enough to post it.


 It captures Bishop.

Bishop on the Ukulele

watercolor on 300 lb paper



HOW TO PAINT A BEACH PARTY

                                                                 ORANGE BOARDS
                                                                 party price $1500.00


step 1. hire a model to pose in 7 to 15 gesture poses (10 minutes each max)
step 2. use a big 3 ft x 3 ft canvas or bigger, it's a party don't make it feel small
step 3. get in the party mood  (party beverages , party food, party hat, party attitude)
step 4. it's a party so be happy and turn on the party music
step 5. use a wet large (2 inch) brush , prefer flat, and party colors,
            if you are scared of paint, then start with water soluable crayons to draw
step 6. record gesture poses while the model is on a timer, don't worry if you are finished each pose
step 7. paint in big bold strokes , picking up paint and slopping it on with NO worries
step 8. ahhhh I can feel you fretting, you are not partying enough..drink more party beverage and          have some cake and ice cream while you're at it
step 9. send the model home and let the painting dry over night ...keep it on the wall at the end of your bed so you wake up to it and see it with fresh eyes.
step 10, add bathing suits to them , alternate warm color then cool so they stand out.
step 11, if they overlap oddly then just let them blend, like a party..people bump into people.
               no worries.

Several Chances

In my family the "do over" was accepted and encouraged. We always had several chances to get the golf ball in the hole at miniature golf and my mother actually taped off all the CHUTES in "Chutes and Ladders" .  It was  completely logical to her that a game should be FUN . I agree.

                                                               Several Chances
                                                                     $1500.00
                                                               acrylic on canvas

In keeping with the "do over" and the "try it as many times as you like",
I have adapted a new way to paint figures that I love. It truly embraces the "do over" and over and over and over. I love the flow of a "do over" because it is not about doing it wrong once but instead about
doing it unto prefection. If they stop ya at one time you never get there. So raise a glass to the "do over".

In this painting some of the figures are more finished than others, they flow into each other without reason. They are a composition born of attempts with no break in the energy. It is my goal that in seeing one you flow to the next and are surprised to see, yet, another. Your surprise is that you are looking at the stacatto strokes in one girl and before you can rest your eyes there is another.

In life, please feel free to screw up and leave it alone, then screw up again and don't dwell on it...then
screw up again. You can have several tries but I think 7 is about right. Eight seems a little over the top.

just joking , but once is never enough.

                                                        

Artist of Hawaii

Painting at Ala Moana Beach Park

painting on my little french easel at San Souci

painting on the table top easel in Kuloko Gallery

painting in Kailua at the Beach Park

painting on the back of a boat in Kaneohe

painting and teaching at Bellow Beach with fun folks

San Souci

San Souci Sun

This is Kaimana Beach Park on the ocean at the New Otani Hotel

Home to 2H life saving station

Acrylic on Canvas

$1500.00

SAN SOUCI  2H STATION

The ocean is calm

and the waves are afraid,

Kent spoke to the sea.

He told it "be gentle

to all the fair ladies

so they will be gentle to me"

Thank you Kent for standing guard at 2H.

We all feel a little safer knowing you are there.

Don Ho out back of the little grass shack

Don Ho

singing on his ukulele

$325.00 acrylic on board

I want to go back to my little grass shack

In Kealakekua, Hawai`i

Where the humuhumunukunukuâpua`a

Go swimming by

hot cool hot

$175.00

hot hot cool

acrylic on board

Red Hot and Cool

I had red high heel shoes

I bought in Italy

They were so sexy

even without my feet in them

it is so hot to be cool when your hot

http://www.letsgo-hawaii.com/volcano/lavaflow.html

Plumeria Girls at Hibiscus Walk

Plumeria Girls on Hibiscus Walk in Waikiki

Acrylic on Canvas

$1500

Plumeria Girls

Asuka and Saki and in the blue Yuuka

Floating with Umbrellas on the streets of Waikiki

Don't know why the suntan people lay out on the beach

when there is so much shopping right within their reach

Ko'olaus of O'ahu

Ko'olaus

acrylic on canvas

$350.00

 

GRACE

small original acrylic on mahogany board

$325.00

Painted Outside at Pier 38 Honolulu near Nico's

Grace

it's the thing that keeps us afloat,

grace from God,

not the boat!

Waikiki THE HONOLULU YACHT CLUB

just a little yacht club

on the banks of AlaWai Canal

8x8

acrylic on Mahogany Board

view from Magic Island

painted on location

plein air style

$450.00

consumed by heat

                                                                                                  

                                                                   
                                                                          
                  OUT OF LAVA

Why did I want love to be true?

when I had all the heat , like lava, from you

the heat would not stop

but flowed on with force.

So I am not surprised

that it all ran it's course.

$450.00
8x8
Oil on Mahogany Board
add shipping

Wahine Kai

small prints for $12.00 matted

Wahine Kai
MERMAIDS

Acrylic on Canvas
$1500.00
Can be purchased from Kuloko Gallery in Waikiki


SNAGGING A MAN
(a mermaid poem)


It's a pain to be lovely and always admired
Enough is enough , it makes me so tired,
I sat on the rocks with some fine finned chicks
and thought of the things that gave me most kicks.

 And vanity was not up in the roster,
 like...my friend had her fins clipped ,
I am guessing that cost her.
The other "descaled "cause she hated the shine,
and one had a tattoo put on her behind.

Then I heard of a mermaid at China man's hat
that decided her back end was a little too fat
and she swam round in circles 20 times on the  hour
and it made her quite skinny with amazing strong power.

so I went over to watch her and sure as waves break
she swam round the hat, I swear, goodness sake...
around and around she continued through   dinner
 she was very determined but in fact, not a winner.

She was obsessed with her bottom and it took all her time
She missed all her meals which , to me, is a crime,
She desired attention of all the "mermen"
and she thought the advantage was to stay very thin

But tell me the truth, is beauty so grand that you'd miss your lunch
just to snag you a man?

Speak To ME Banyan Tree

The

"SPEAK TO ME"

Banyan Tree

acrylic on canvas

painted on location at Kapiolani Part in Honolulu, Hawaii.

$1500.00

Speak to me Banyan Tree

by Rebecca Snow

I painted at the park one day

and thought I heard a Banyan pray

I listened while I dipped my brush

the mood , electric

such a rush

to hear a Banyan is very rare

so I sat down in my blue lawn chair

and stared right up and listened in...

he said

"thank you Lord, once again"

Rebecca Snow painting at Kuloko Gallery

Running with a Surf Board

The Bar on the Beach at the Hale Koa Hotel

Acrylic on Canvas

$600.00

THE MAI TAI BAR AT THE HALE KOA

One little Mai Tai

You're sitting at the bar

Two little Mai Tais

You're feeling like a star

Three little Mai Tais

You get  into the car

Four little POLICE

You won't get very far.

poem is free , advice is free

painting gonna cost ya but prints are available!

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/221405

Outriggers at the Mudflats

OUTRIGGERS AT THE MUDFLATS

acrylic on canvas

$300.00

O'ahu Dreams

"Oahu Dreams"

graphic hawaiian florals

(acrylic on canvas)

$1500.00

O'ahu Dream

it was a dream

that then came true

saw it in pinks and oranges and blue

then came the greens

and there was no gray

and dark disappeared

 so I decided to stay



DAYDREAM MERMAIDS IN HONOLULU

"DAYDREAMING"

 mermaid moments

(acrylic on canvas)

$1500..00

When I was a Mermaid

I never got to dance

I day dreamed about a different life

so when I got the chance

I figured out a way

to live my life on shore

and now I watch the birds

and want to someday soar.

Never being satified

seems to be a curse

the grass may not be greener

sometimes different is just worse.

Love's a Crouching Lion

ALONG THE NORTH SHORE

Crouching Lion

If you drive on the North Shore of O'ahu there is a mountain formed from the Volcano called Crouching Lion. I painted it from the shore across the bay on Thanksgiving Day. I was alone that day, just me.
Perfectly content in my own little painters world with a view of Crouching Lion. Please let me know if you like it. It was the essence of the day , no details to worry with, just sweet and simple.

 Braddah LOVES a Crouching Lion
pouncing when you least expect.
sets your life all kapakahi
heart get crushed like big shipwreck

Braddah
love's a crouching lion
soft and plush and wild and strong
strength in love will over power
all that in this world is wrong

Braddah
love's a lion waiting ,
woozy dizzy takes it's prey
and be so smart to quick surrender
you be happy all your day

VENUS POSE

V

as in Venus

better than

ever

posing for

the photographer

never shy

pretending it's the shell

that should be observed

but no

it is she

(watercolor on full sheet hot press paper- $250.00)

notice the water spout in the backgound
like all beautiful women,  there is destruction close behind

BUCK TOOTH TIKI

 

THE BUCK TOOTH TIKI

Walk along the Hot Pink sand

 Find the Buck Tooth Tiki Man

See da mermaid 

 Give her a wink

 Buy dat girl an umbrella drink

(acrylic on canvas-prints for sale)

Lailani and Pu'u

                  Selling Flower Leis

Acrylic on Canvas

$750.00

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Three Palm Paintings

LOTS OF NOTHING AT THE BEACH

I sat in shade

and the shade did move

I sat in water,

it dried

 I ran the shower

at the public bath

with bathers by my side

I got to the palms

and thought I'd relax

I took off my slippers and hat.

and laid on the sand

and pretended to sleep

there was whole lots of nothing

but that

I swam in the ocean

I waded a bit

I sat in the surf

where they'd break

I sifted the sand

though my suntaned hand

there was whole lots of nothing

but that.



Hibiscus City Girls

Hibiscus City Girls

acrylic on canvas

$1500.00

24 h x 30 w

Juxtaposed

high rise to sand

Honolulu City

Ko'olaus

peering down

on all the girls

so pretty

Ala Wai to Mauka

AlaWai to Mauka

view of the city from the AlaWai Canal

Acrylic on Canvas

$600.00

view of the aliwai from magic island with

the typical scene of rain in the mountains

as the sun rises over the city

                                  ALA WAI TO MAUKA 

photo of the city

Pirate Poem

Parakeet Pete

Often as the ship would sway

due to high winds off the  Chesapeake Bay

Pete would  disapear did seem

that he would hide aft of the beam

Tough as leather, a sailors tale

he was swallowed once by a killer whale

and he oft ate plank when rations were low

when he got a hang nail, he clipped his whole toe

So why is he no where to be found

when the going is tough he is no where around

and so  I hid in the Quarterdeck row

just to find out where exactly he'd go

and just exactly what he'd do

and I can't keep a secret so I'm gonna tell you

Long about four we were hoisting the jib

I heard that our Pete told a little white fib

he told the first mate he was feeling right frail

then excusing himself walked to the genoa sail

and hiding I watched in my stillness a hush

as Parakeet Pete took his paint and his brush

and rendered the sky and the mast

with such skill

I thought what a shame that he had to fake ill.

And it is no secret what secrets we keep

when as artists we worry so we don't say a peep

that in being a "maker" a "drawer" a "poet"

we love it but hate to let anyone know it.

And I thought of the secrets that other's have hid

I assumed so much worse that Parakeet did.

But it's easier roughing the highest of seas

than being creative with a public to please.

BANYAN TREE IN WAIKIKI

Speckled Walk

$1600.00

Acrylic Museam Wrap Canvas

2 ft h x 4 ft w

Speckled Walk

we took together

shaded by

the searching sun

keeping up our pace

our shadows

slowly melted

in to one

Eric Wiegardt Workshop

Eric Wiegardt is coming to town to give a 5 day plein air workshop for the Hawaii Watercolor Society.
It is a great chance to learn from a wonderful watercolor artist as well as experience O'ahu.
Take a look at Eric's site

.http://ericwiegardt.com/school-of-painting/workshops/

He will conduct the workshop from March 28th  through April 1st of 2011.
Please let me know if you are interested in attending.

BANYAN-----FAR REACHING

If  I were a bird and wanted a large mansion of a tree to live in, this would be my first choice.

Kristen Olson Studio

http://kristenkofsky.com/

Hop on to Kristen's site and see the work of an oil painter and art teacher that captures the heart
of Kailua and Lanikai.

Punahou Carnival Submission

picture taken on the 14th of January 2011

This painting has to get finished in 2 weeks

PUNAHOU
gotta get ready for the gallery show
yiks
counting down the days

currently called speckled walk

this  Banyan painting is in progress

this painting will be at the Art Gallery

during Punahou Carnival

50% proceeds  of sales will go

to the scholarship fund

ART PROJECT - getting ready for Punahou Art Gallery

just a little walk

from Punahou school

to my place in Makiki

you will find

me painting

I am

getting ready for

the Punahou Carnival Art Gallery

Punahoe Carnival

2011

 

just up the street from

Punahou

you will find me

painting