Busy painting

 Am up to 176 paintings this year, if include my minis at 2x2 to 4x4. Here are few of the latest works. I did a few east side scenes in preparation for the Wailoa Center Plein Air exhibit in February, where I am the juror and will have a room to myself to show work.  

Top is a study of the rock formation at Pine Trees beach, in 11x14. I've done this scene before so concentrated on loose brush strokes.    

Next three are all east side paintings. All are 8x10. Top is Waipio Bay, an old settlement once flooded during the tusnami. Below is Hilo Bay in the evening. Last is Akaka Falls north of Hilo. Hope to do a few more to get full coverage of our scenic island of Hawaii.   

Recent landscapes

I've been late posting lately. Back busy at the gallery doing small paintings for gifts to sell there. The 2x2-4x4 are popular as easy to carry home. 

Below are all local 8x10's except the two boats at Keauhou Bay which is 11x14. Top is Pine Trees beach and all the surfers there on a good wave day. The red surfboard is from a Maui photo I've always liked so finally did a painting based on it. We are back in the regular Friday painting sessions so more to come. One of these days I need to sort and get rid of the works I don't like as much.       

This below is Kukio Beach where we haven't painted for a while but I always like this scene where have the surfboards waiting.

This is Kaloko Ponds where we often paint. I "cheated" by using my monocular to compress the distance and get the background rocks and trees closer.

 

This is Pahoehoe Park beach, just a mile from my home. It's scenic but not really a swimming beach although a few snorkelers use it now and then.  

 

A lone surfboard and palm tree on a beach in Maui. More dunes there and not many lava rocks as the island is much older than the Big Island.

A view from Energy Lab Beach where I again cheated a little and compressed the distance in the interests of the composition. Artistic license it's called. 

New landscapes

 Several 8x10's from recent weeks. We may lose beach locations to paint at as covid virus increases again and beaches may be closed for sitting. At top is the path at Kaloko Ponds moving into the dark trees. Below is Hookena Beach with the mountain dominating the people on the beach and in the water. 

 

More landscapes

 A few more summer landscapes. Top is Old Airport Park with its rocky beach.  Next is the keiki pond at low tide at Energy Lab beach. I like the simple composition on this one. These are both 8x10. Last is an 8 x 16 to fit a frame my wife found at a thrift store. It's the view of Kahaluu Beach and a hut and the small church on the left. This view if popular and I've sold several similar ones plus views from the church back to the pavilion. Always a popular spot to snorkle and paint.  

Newer work

Newer work, some studio, some plein air. I've been painting a few sunsets in the studio, and the "tree" painting is Hookena, 11x14 done on site. The top one is 10x8 and sold quickly at the Blue Sea Artisans Gallery.

 

Waves and more

Continued the fun wave studies from thumbnails I made from my various wave photos. Then went to Kaloko Ponds north of Kona and a pair of plein air paintings of the ponds area. All in all a productive week. 

More waves

 A catchup week on posting. Includes Hookena Beach view, a 14x30 plein air work at the top. We keep getting cloudy weather but color beneath the layer was bright that day so captured the mountain views beneath the clouds.    

Continued my wave studies with several works. Added a sunset in the bottom work to combine sunset and waves. Want to do more of both so combining these motifs was a good way to go. 

Wave Studies

 I was inspired by an article in Artist's Magazine about studies of waves. Since here in Hawaii we have myriad inspiration, I did a few studies from photos I had taken while painting plein air. The below three are 8x8, 8x10, and then 5x7. It's a fun process and I can now finish almost completely in one "sitting." The water soluble oils I use set up quickly and as I paint different parts, other parts are dry enough to continue and paint over them. The white/yellow/blue in the waves I do with a stiff bristle brush to get texture and also I can lay the light over the dark and it stays put. Hope to get a few more great photos to do more of these.    

Flower Project

 I took some photos of flowers from my garden and used my last panel from a wooden screen to frame the resulting paintings. Overall it's 11x62 with each painting an 8x10. Makes a good over-the-sofa work. I've also taken the Big Wave work shown earlier to the Blue Sea Artisans gallery and will bring this on once it's varnished and ready to hang.  

Variety of new work

 Working on some larger studio pieces lately. Top is an Idaho sunset. I have a friend there who takes many pictures and lets me use them for reference. This is 16x20.

Below is a cloud work from a photo, at 16x22 in size. I did a 5x7 study first and then had the larger canvas about the same proportions so did a larger versions where I added the palm trees and figures on the beach for size reference. I like the few white capped waves showing the light coming through the clouds.  

 

Latest work

 A variety of  work lately. Top is a 16x20 studio work from Magoon's beach north of Kona. Seems the larger I paint, the more realistic I tend to work. Haven't figured out how to get the looseness I like in the smaller outdoor work to carry over to larger work. 

Next is something I've been working on for a while. It's a long big wave across 5-8x10 panels. I finally added surfers on the wave and put the panels into a long "frame" derived from a screen of five panels. I call this one Big Wave.

Also included two Oregon scenes from a friend's photos.  Top is 12x12 of a bay that filled up with waves than then drain out the front. Below is a 6x8 of a rocky beach near sunset. Nice for a change of pace in colors from all the Hawaii paintings.