Donkey Mill Art Center Life Drawing

For anyone interested in life drawing, the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa has a class on Wednesday evenings from 6-8 pm. You can attend on a class by class basis or you can register for the complete session. A new session starts April 1. See the Donkey Mill web site for more details. Bring your own drawing supplies, pencil, charcoal, paint, pastel--anything you would like to use. Participants can do their own thing, but if you want instruction or criticism, it's available as well. I attended the last session and will be continuing this session. It's been great. If you come, I will see you there, Nancy

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Hulihee Palace Paint-Out - Saturday

And a brave bunch we were - blustery weather, rain spitting from time to time, and a final downpour (by Kailua standards anyway) at 15 minutes before the bell (12 noon). A good turn-out given the circumstances, and more productive for me than the day before - glad i was painting in oils. Mahalos to Kailua Village Artists (especially Steve and Colleen), the Daughters of Hawaii, and the Friends of the Calabash, for making the Palace grounds available to us for these two days. I'll post instructions about getting the finished pieces to the appropriate place in the appropriate manner later.

The event proved that we are " . . . the few - the proud - the plein air . . ." - or something.

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Hulihe'e Palace Paint-Out - Friday

A very good turn out at Hulihe'e Palace in spite of the "Hilo kine" weather. Most of the participants were from West Hawaii Plein Air Painters, but Kailua Village Artists had the most diversity with oil & watercolor painters as well as a print maker and stain glass artisan. The Paint-Out continues Saturday from 9a to 12p - we are hoping for some sun and shadows - and no rain.

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Hulihe'e Palace Paint-Out

This weekend promises to be interesting with a paint-out at the Palace where the Hawaiian Monarchy once held court. With more then 30 painters and a small area and a lot of vegitation I wonder how we'll be able to do anything else then paint the painters. I'll be especially interested in noting how those that aren't used to painting en plein air (literally "painting out there" or on site) are going to handle packing and hauling the stuff they need to paint that usually resides in their cabinets or on the taboret - I'll let you know.

TO POST A COMMENT - CLICK ON THE HEADING OF THE ARTICLE YOU WANT TO COMMENT ON (I know, I know, a preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with) I also wanted to add that the Hulihe'e Paint Out is being hosted by the Kailua Village Artists group - their gallery is at Outrigger Keauhou Beach Hotel in Kailua-Kona.