Two smaller works

I've been trying to push my colors more lately. Read a nice book last week, "Oil Painting-The Workshop Experience," by Ted Goerschner. Ted went to art school in Newark, NJ, in the same building where I went to Arts High School, and does some really nice colorful and loose landscapes as well as florals. 

These are both 6x8 and I'm happy with the looseness and the colors although focal point on top one is distracted somewhat by the colorful foreground. Might do another version and fix this. Top is view from Old Airport Park and below is Honokohau Harbor Park.