Strolling at Ala Moana Beach Parks's Magic Island

                Magic Island is always a treat. You will always see brides and grooms with their 

               photographer and lots of runners, bikers, swimmers and walkers. It's a fun place

                to be any time of day but especially pretty at dusk.

               This sketch is for my friend Merril in Germany. I hope she likes it.

Magic Island in Honolulu

Shade Tree

to good to be true

At Ala Moana

Beach Park

with a view

of the

Ewa Side

of

the island

of O'ahu.



Lantern Floating at Magic Island

11x14 acrylic on mahogany board

"Lantern Floating Ceremony"

The ceremony was absolutely stunning.

Amazing colorful dancers on stage, and great music.

Joyce painted with pastels and I used acrylic.

We dragged ourselves and our easels over early

and Joyce scouted out the best location.

 The picture shows the early set up and

the teams getting the lanterns loaded on to the canoes.

The Eli'o took out the lanterns and turned in to the sunset with each canoe following behind.
The water was lovely and the children were all playing in the sand. There were still paddleboarders
out and surfers close to shore. It was a beautiful night

Early in the evening I managed to pop out one bright painting of the canoes lined up before they left the shore. The beach was full of sunbathers and there were tons of people playing on rafts.
 I have  more to do on this painting , but usually post at the halfway point.

OUTRIGGER STUDY

OUTRIGGERS

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!