Post move work.

Been busy moving so only painting on Friday mornings with our Kona outdoor group. Did three works of very similar style, fast and loose, with people enjoying the beaches shown much more than before. Top is Kahaluu beach park with St. Peter's church tucked in the trees. Then is Magoon's beach, and last is Magic Sands, now just over a half mile below the new house location. Sold a painting to an Alaska admirer recently and after I shipped the painting there I realized I didn't take a photo of it. Shows how the exhaustion of moving affects the brainpower. Glad that task is almost behind me.   

Latest Works

Been in the middle of buying a new home so missed a couple of weeks painting outdoors.

Here are the last few I've completed including past Friday's work.

Top work is 8x10 of figures on a beach. Have wanted to do this type of scene for practice. Might need a few touchups but feel for a first of this type with larger figures it's successful.
  

This is a view of Energy lab beach area, looking north toward the airport. I emphasized the  foreground and distant building and trees. Also 8x10.

This was Friday's work, also at  Energy Lab beach. If painting near the building, this lone tree is a great subject which I've painted several times now. Great clouds early I tried to capture before they blew away. 

  

Newest landscape

Again facing away from the ocean and rocks. This is the Energy Lab beach area. I liked the broad expanse of sand facing north toward an outbuilding at the horizon. Tried to get a lot of texture in the foreground sand and grassy areas. This is 8x10 and I did a smaller 5x7 of this scene also with a more yellowish tint. Might need to adjust the horizon line to make it a little more level?

   

Hualalai Mountain

Friday's  work, bottom, a distant view of Hualalai Mountain behind Kona from Pahoehoe Park on Ali'i Drive. Maybe next week I'll get back to water and rocks depending on the location we paint. This is my normal 8x10 outdoor size.

Also last Friday's work from Ali'i Drive, off Honl's Beach. I like putting roads into my work at times as it's what we see so often.  

 

    

Catching up on landscape posts

Been painting but needed to catch up on the posting online. Also, set a new year's resolution to work with thicker brush strokes and looser so a couple of those are here too. top two are Manini Beach, an 8x10 onsite, then a 14x20 in the studio, shown in that order.

Next are two scenes of boats in Honokohau Harbor. One is 5x7, next one is 8x10. These are where I tried to really force the brush strokes to be thicker and show more. 

Last is another small 5x7 where I show Mauna Kea in with clouds. This doesn't have the thick strokes because this scene needed the depth so only bold strokes in the front and then I needed to fade the background. Each scene chooses it's own style to make it work. 

  

More Hawaii foliage

Ended up turning away from the ocean again at Kaloko Pond, a site with a fishpond and large wall being restored after storm damage. This view is the beginning of a path just inland along the water. 

  

Latest work - lots of foliage

I've been turning away from facing the ocean and volcanic rock and getting more variety in my views. Here is a view south from Energy Lab Beach, facing the small concrete building there. I wanted to emphasize the winding  path leading through the bushes. I put  some of the lavender color from the sky into the path and building roof to coordinate the scheme.