Windy day at the beach

Painted at Energy Lab Beach Friday. The breeze turned into a strong wind and soon I was hanging on to my canvas as much as painting. Did a quick one hour block in on a square canvas, concentrating on a nice abstract shape, and then finished it up at home. Even in paradise the weather at times doesn't cooperate. This beach inspires me to very abstract work as I've done several prior ones with the big foreground. 

Keauhou Store and Hapoepoe Beach

We painted at the Keauhou store today. I had done several before and 2 or 3 sold there during their fundraiser. This one is 8x10 and a view of the store and road. With the right frame I'll take it to the store and see if they want to market it with the others still there from our group. Below also is a larger, 12x20, from Hapoepoe Beach this week. I'm thinking of going larger while outdoors, or else smaller and looser. Maybe both, a sketch and then the larger work. Stay tuned.  

New work from past few weeks

Been busy and lazy lately both. Training for a half marathon next week has left me tired so put off touchups and photoedits for a while.  Below is recent work from outdoor sessions.

This top one is Hookena Beach, and one of my favorites lately as I feel I captured the landscape and the activity on the beach both. 

Below is the path at Kaloko Ponds, 12x12. Still not quite the feel of the light coming through the trees and will have to try a similar scene again.

This scene is from Honl's Beach where I added the two figures at the end to try and show the scale of the rocks. Figures might need to be slightly larger but it works OK for me
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This is another path scene at Manini Beach where I tried the light through the trees again and one of these days I'll capture it the way I want.

This was the second Manini Beach done the same day. Once I pushed the far mountain back by fading it out a little the scene works.

This week's Honokohau Harbor mouth park scene. Needed quite a bit of work at home as I deleted some rocks showing through the palm tree to emphasize the tree itself and it works better now. I rarely do a single tree like this but good to do a "portrait" once in a while. I also reworked it to show overlap of the palm leaves to make it more three dimensional.  

Downtown and Kukio Beach

Last two Fridays in town, at Kona Inn, and at Kukio Beach. Maui was showing its colors so most of us included it in the Kukio Beach scenes. Both of these are my usual 8x10. Top one is somewhat abstract in design as I included a long concrete wall that runs along the water at the Kona Inn.

Beach 69

This beach is named after the telephone pole that marked it's location. It's just south of Hapuna Beach about 30 miles north of Kona. Hapuna is best for swimming for Beach 69 has more scenery. I've painted the view north many times now so turned around and did the south facing view. As you can see, lots of folks enjoy the water here too. 

Beach Umbrellas

A great sunny morning at Magic Sands beach. Lots of people and beach umbrellas and I loved the red umbrella and chairs beneath it. Loads of people in the water jumping the waves.

More abstract landscapes

I'm using the same reference to do more colorful abstracted landscapes this week. These two are 8x6 and 5x7. Trying out more artificial colors for the lava rock although turned it into sand in the larger one. Working out the big foreground in various ways, and then adding the background ocean and trees.