Kalenakai Pond and Palm Studies

Honokohau Canoe Shed - 8x10 - oils on board

This wonderful canoe shed stands at the National Park to the North side (Kohala) of the marina inlet where the old "naked" beach used to be (they don't like that anymore).

Kalenakai Pond at the Keauhou Outrigger Resort
18x20 - oils on board

The Keauhou Outrigger Resort is one of the richest and most convenient locations to paint in Kona.  It's target rich (plenty of different kind stuff for paint) and very close to downtown and parking with Kahalu'u Beach park to one side.  This pond is a beautiful feature of the grounds and draws my attention often for a new painting.   It doesn't matter how may times you've painted it, there is always something different and new.

Locals' Table at Magic Sands - 14x11 - oils on board

Magic Sands Beach is also one of my favorites for different reasons - there are almost always people relating to each other and to the surf.  A good place to pick out families and groups of people to paint.

Raving Rivalets at Wawaloli - 10x8 - oils on board

Wawaloli is out at the Natural Energy Laboratories of Hawaii just off Queen Ka'ahumanu - a good place to go when the surf is really pumping.  This location is up at the Kohala end near where the piping for the geothermal plant comes out of the sea.

Translucent Palm Morning - 10x8 - oils on board

Another "I made this one up" as a means to experiment with more transparency.   This one fairly glows in full sunlight.  I also think this is the first painting I did after acquiring a tube of dioxinine purple - does it show?

Light Rain with Surf - 8x10 - oils on board

From a photograph taken at the City of Refuge it was raining up and down the coast but I wanted to paint and tried to capture the feeling of the rain outside.

Wind and Surf - 8x10 - oils on board