What a hot day for painting at Honolulu Harbor! The water was that deep turquoise blue that is so phenomenal, like the blue from a top quality gem sapphire. The boats in the water with their colorful hulls and rigging in white, red and green are inspirational to paint. There is so much reflection of …
The Willamette River runs North and South through the middle of Portland providing a waterfront playground for the city. The two sides of Portland are connected by a network of bridges, some historic, some just older and in need of TLC or replacement. All of the bridges are fun to paint, providing plenty of challenges …
He’eia is a park on a point that reaches out into the ocean on the North Shore of Oahu. It has a a view of Kaneohe Bay and the Ko’olau Mountains. The Ko’olau’s are an ancient volanic formation with deep dramatic valleys, forming a surface like curtain folds across the range. The sun hits them …
Outrigger canoes and the people who paddle them are everywhere in Hawaii, but the little town of Kailua on Oahu is a major hub of watercraft activity, where the canoes are lined up in the shade of the Ironwood trees awaiting their next adventure in the hands of a capable paddler. The canoes are brightly …
I sat under a rain shelter on the beach at Black Pot in Hanalei, Kauai while the mist and drizzle blew over me in waves. I was thinking “why am I here? Is there anything to paint?” But as I waited I observed the dark brooding clouds dropping their load of rain on Ha’ena. This …
Painting quickly always makes me uncomfortable, which means that I should do more of it. Much more. This piece was one of those uncomfortable quick paintings. Even worse, with the sun going down and the light fading. My friend Yvonne and I set up on the cliff at Pali Kekua in Princeville, HI just as …
In Hawai’i there are so many great things to paint, it seems that there is always something better around the corner, but I can tell you that this mountain, Namolokama, stops you in your tracks. Maybe it’s the scale, or the waterfalls with the changing light, but it is captivating. I will definitely be returning …
This is a famous view of Diamond Head from Round Top Drive in Honolulu. I’ve painted this view numerous times now and never grow tired of the endless changing light and sky. Diamond Head has such a distinctive, strong solid profile, I enjoy describing the planes of it’s surface as the light renders them in …
Diamond Head in the afternoon on a hot sunny day. Some haze on this day and no trade winds. Very hot and still, this is called “Kona” weather. Everyone pretty much just endures this weather and waits until the trade winds start blowing again. When that happens there is a collective sigh of relief. + …
This day on the beach at Hanalei was rainy and blowing. The water was still that intense turquoise in places where patches of sun were hitting, but the sheets of rain were obscuring the homes and trees in the distance, and pulling at the group of sailboats pulled up onto the sand as if to …