West Hawaii Plein Air Painters Schedule

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Plein Air Painting Schedule

Big Island of Hawaii - Kona-side

The Painting Schedules are not being posted here anymore - please go to the link below and look to the most recent newsletter - mahalos: http://richardrochkovsky.com/newsletter-archive . . . and while you're there - look around a little . .

Painting Sessions are from 9a to 12:30p with a short critique to follow

Kohala Plein Air Schedule - fridays Contact Peter at: kohalapleinairpainters@gmail.com Hilo-side Plein Air Painting Schedule - thursdays Leslie at: leslie@lesismore.us or at their website: http://paaohi.blogspot.com/

YouTube Painting Demonstrations

That symbol means  
CAUTION - EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL TO FOLLOW : 
and this time it's painting demonstrations on YOU TUBE.  And everyone that has a camera is here (including yours truly) with their "fool proof, easy, gonna change your life" methods in water colors, oils, acrylics, pastels, and stuff you've never heard of - here are some of the good guys:

Richard Robinson  
One of my favorites, stylistically and tempermentally - easy to understand and listen to and dedicated to the fine points of plein air and quick fresh studio work as well.  He also has a newsletter service and some "private" free lessons that you can participate in as well as a free e-book that i'll give you the address for later.
Richard's main YouTube channel - you can access most of his  teaching videos from here - there's also a link to his website, which i reccommend:

http://www.youtube.com/user/rvalentinorobinson?feature=watch

Here's the link to the Hawaii e-book - it's free - download it and think about doing one of yourown:
http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/Hawaiibook/

Paul Taggard
I love this guy and admire his perserverance and doggedness and hate his perserverence and doggedness!! And/but he explains things clearly and over and over again so that you can't help but eventually "get it".  His instruction videos are "all media" so just take your choice and settle in for a real "journey".
Paul's channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/artworkshopwithpaul
there's a link here to his website as well, but there's more than enough choices at this location to keep busy for a long time.

I've watched a lot of these videos and will try to add to this list in the future - if you've got some of your own favorites, let me know.

richard

the SKOILS as FOIL

The rhymes will get worse - i guarantee it.  Many more umbrella paintings to come.

SKOILS are SKetches in OILS, painted in one go (ala prima) and completed in about 45 minutes on loose canvas - 9x12 size (because that's half of a full sheet of loose canvas).

magic sands morning umbrella - plein air skoil - 9x6

magic sands morning umbrella - plein air skoil - 9x6

holding firm - hapuna - plein air skoil - 9x6

None of these are on display yet, so, I'll keep you informed - maybe a future show?

Kona Coffee Festival Entry Timelapse Movie

Turn up your speakers and enjoy - you'll see lots of wipe outs and start overs (not at all like that plein air stuff) especially the leaves in the front right and the clouds - enjoy

Richard's Most Recent Works

I put this album together when I realized that I'm doing more painting then blogging and these are just some of my favorite paintings - enjoy.


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Hokukano Ranch Session - "Gussie's Place"

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Mele Kalikimaka

Happy Holidays and a Wonderful 2013 from the Big Island of Hawaii

richard rochkovsky

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Painting Slide Show - 2010

  Turn up the speakers and enjoy!!

Still Life and Dappling

Still life at Honl Bay - 9x12 - oils on board

This was painted only a few days after “the excitement”, which is to say the tsunami.  The waves had set up this little still life and raked the sea grass into an interesting tangle.  Here I had my new colors (Gamblin professional oils rather than the student grade stuff that they sell at Ace Hardware) working well and I even managed to stifle my inclinations and tone down the far away palms.

Dapple Fantasia at Kaloko Ponds - 11x14 - oils on board

A lot of vibrant brushwork going in here and some wonderful dappling effects in the colorful shadows.

5x7 Quickies

Gussie's Hammock - Keauhou Bay - 7x5 - oils on board

Wanted to do some little quickies to see how they sell and just to unlimber into these new paints.  Each one took about 50 years and 45 minutes (50 years of iving experience and 45 minutes of real painting time).  I hope they look like they were as much fun as they were to do.

We go to Gussie Pace's estate at Keauhou Bay sometimes for a painting session and this is her hammock with the bay in the background – the next one is her concrete pond – it somehow just reminded me of Beverly Hillbilies.

Gussie's Concrete Pond - Keauhou Bay
5x7 - oils on board

Early Morning Palm Andante - City of Refuge
5x7 - oils on board

The one above and the next two I made up (confessions of a plein ar painter) and I think I enjoyed the first two more.

Palm Allegro - City of Refuge
5x7 - oils on board

Morning Respite - 5x7 - oils on board

Fred & Ginger and Friends

Fred and Ginger do Anaeho'omalu Bay
12x14 - oils on board

Fred & Ginger dancin’ dancin’ is about 50% plein air and 50% studio.  I really got carried away painting the negative space around all of the twigs and branches (I love that negative space)   See detail below:

Waiting Canoes - Keauhou Bay - 20x24
oils on stretched canvas

One of my favorite pieces and about 75% plein air.  What excites me is the liquid handling of the dappling on the canoes and the way the strong backlighting works in the foliage at the upper left.  Strong light coming through foliage fuzzes out all of the detail.

Big Surf at Wawaloli Point - 14x11 - oils on board

We had some wonderfully big surf a few weeks ago and since my painting group goes out once a week we managed to catch some of it.  On the next older page there’s a painting from almost exactly the same location on a nice calm day.

Church and Shadows

Christ Episcopal Church - Kealakekua - 14x11 - oil on board

Voggy cloudy day (vog=volcanic smog) and I think I caught that here, I diluted most of my colors with white and started with a yellow ochre canvas instead of my typically cadmium yellow light one.  Also I moved some of the tombstones around a little – no big deal – I once moved Maui about two miles.

Kayak at Manini Beach - 10x8 - oils on board

Manini is mostly a coral beach and may still be but I haven’t been there since “the excitement”  (tsunami).  There was one movie of the damage here that made the national news of one of the
 houses around this beach floating out to sea in Kealakekua Bay.

Keiki Pond at Waealoli Point - 14x11 - oils on board

The companion piece to the big wave painting on the newer page.  Here I was concentrating on the foreground which I usually dash in at the end of the session in a couple of minutes, here,and in Christ Church, I made more of an effort and it really paid off.

Morning Mist at Waialea Beach - 14x11 - oils on board

Pauls Place and Other Fun Stuff

Not-a-flower - 6x6 - oils on board

Not-a-flower was a practice piece that I did concentrating on the transparent aspects of certain oil color pigments.   "Not-a-flower" because I just made it up!

Surf Path at Kaloko Ponds - 8x10 - oils on board

Nice hot day at Kaloko Ponds!   Here i was mostly concerned with the shadows in the foreground.   Shadows aren't just blank darknesses for me, they have colors and vibrancies within them - I usually try to paint them and the dappling as if they were liquids.

Ecstacy Palm - 8x8 - oils on board

Pauls Place - Holualoa -  - oils on board

This little store in Holualoa was the center of that old town, and still is except the community has changed from rural coffee land to a kind of Art colony.

Wave Lense and Company

Life Guard Tower, Kahalu'u - 10x8 - oils on board

They've started to replace these fine old colorful guard towers with some made out of fibreglas and totally lacking in charm or color - I was lucky to get this one befoe it was replaced.   I painted this from the Kalenakai Grill at the Keauhou Beach Outrigger Resort.

Little Blue Church at the Pali - Napo'opo'o
oils on board

A very active piece painted from Manini Beach with the pali quickly sketched on and a white mist behind the nearest palm trees.

Kua Bay Wave Lense - 18x12 - oils on paper

We usually paint in the morning when the light is best and low.  At Kua Bay the light streams over the saddle at first light and gets refracted onto the sandy bottom at the base of the waves as they come to shore creating a chartreuse band that moves along with the breakers - a wonderful sight and very difficult to paint.

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