Panoramic and another

Still outside on Fridays painting with the art group, but distanced and masked during our critiques. Gallery will be closing for September due to increasing virus cases on our island. 

Top one is from Kukio Beach and a patron who had met me at the BSA gallery and owned another of my works, purchased this one "off the beach." It's now varnished and ready to deliver. This is usual outdoor 8x10.

Below that is a 9x24 panoramic canvas, last of four I stretched a while ago. It is a wide angle view of Hookena Beach. As someone mentioned, you got a lot in there. Beach, clouds, ocean, shore, people, boats..... Really shows the activity of our Hawaiian beaches.   

 

KeauhouBay

 A new Friday painting from Keauhou Bay. I do this location often so went to the south side and painted the north side of the bay, and the point of the bay with palm trees. There is a home there, wow, what a location. I have one more of these panoramic canvases stretched. This one is 9x25 inches. 

Working on greens

I've introduced a couple of greens into my palette to allow even greater variety as opposed to mixing all my greens from blue and yellow. Even with two yellows, and two blues, I found some greens missing. I now added permanent green light and permanent green (viridian). 

This painting is 8x10 from Pahoehoe Park along Ali'i Drive. I like the new greens in the foliage at the top right and palm like bush at the bottom. The water has a good variety of greens now too. The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement! Keep learning, keep painting. 

Kahaluu South

One of our favorite painting spots, Kahaluu Beach. This is an avid snorkling spot although without tourists it's very quiet. Tours would usually bring tourists here so made it very busy. Now our group of about 16 painters was the majority. I painted this view south from the side of the small church at the north end of the bay. Had done a small work from here earlier, a 4x16 and now did a 9x26 to keep the panoramic look. This is three times the square area of my usual 8x10 so took a solid three hours to get it looking good plus touchups at home. I like painting larger on site but takes the first two hours of blocking in to get it looking like anything and finally the third hour it starts to come together. 

Two 8x10's outdoors

Regular painting again, with about a dozen painters outside. We are now doing critiques again although not standing too close and some wearing masks. Outdoor exposure to the virus is minimal and we have had no new cases on the Big Island in almost two weeks. So  far so good.

The top painting shows our beaches open again and folks enjoying the water, although no large gatherings. This is Pines Trees just north of Kona.

Below is Honl's Beach right in town.There were nice waves so I put in a few surfers. I only had a large brush but they came out OK even at the tiny size. 

Back outdoors

Our outdoor painting was suspended since March due to the coronvirus restrictions. We've been meeting outdoors again, minus our group critique sessions. Top is an 8x10 of the clouds above Kona from Old Airport Park. 

Below is the Keiki Pond at the Energy Lab beach and is 9x22. Strong waves that day. 

  

Still Indoors mainly

Our art group is not meeting for the duration of the virus so indoor projects mainly. I had some surfer references so did some drawings and small paintings to try these out. Need to make the paintings larger as with 6x6 and 5x7 boards the figures end up 1/2 to 1 inch size. Don't want to take out a magnifying glass to paint. Here is a page of drawings in sharpie marker. Then the  three first attempts at waves and surfers. The top one I like the surfer the best.