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| Banyan Paintings by Rebecca Snow of Honolulu $325.00 "Sandy Shore Banyan" |
1/24/2012
SANDY SHORE BANYAN IN HONOLULU HAWAII
Banyan Beauty of Waikiki
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| painting by Rebecca Snow of Honolulu Banyan Beauty of Waikiki acrylic on museum wrap canvas $325.00 I usually write a little silly poem...but...instead a comment... This Banyan is at Kapilani Park in Waikiki, or it was the last time I was there. Once in a while someone gets a wild idea to chop down a tree. In my backyard several trees were sacrificed recently. The neighbors at the high rise next door can watch their television and mine now. They can hear me and I can hear them. Privacy is gone and the joy of cool shade is no longer. "Oh I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree." |
KOA BOARDS (unfinished) for your approval
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| honolulu artist, rebecca snow KOA BOARDS run for the hills or grab your board this is the question LORD |
TALKING TURTLES IN HONOLULU
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| paintings by Rebecca Snow MICHYKO and the TALKING TURTLE He has a shell so thick tis true but so do I so do I He was not all that quick oh pooh neither am I nor am I I got the message without his voice I knew what I had to know "vulnerable" it's just okay and you'll get where you want to go |
pleasure palms
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| PAINTING IN HONOLULU "PLEASURE PALMS" He spoke to me in a garbled whispers He wanted me to come and play He promised me a perfect pleasure He was not joking, I should stay |
1/18/2012
True Peace Palm
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| O'ahu Palm Tree Painting |
True Peace Palm
14x6 canvas
Acrylic
2012 Christmas Present to Maria Okimoto
prints available at Kuloko Gallery Waikiki
True Peace Palm
The iconic palm that says "relax"
near the ocean edge so jagged
tells us all in finding peace
the turmoil's not withstanding
1/09/2012
1/05/2012
12/22/2011
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.
10/19/2011
KANEOHE BAY GIRLS by REBECCA SNOW
write me if you've been to Kaneohe Bay
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| 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.
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
8/23/2011
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.
8/22/2011
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.
8/19/2011
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
8/18/2011
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.
8/16/2011
Don Ho out back of the little grass shack
Don Ho
singing on his ukulele
$325.00 acrylic on board
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
8/10/2011
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
7/29/2011
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
6/20/2011
Wahine Kai
small prints for $12.00 matted
Wahine KaiMERMAIDS
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?
6/18/2011
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!
5/30/2011
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.
5/05/2011
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.
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
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