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/

Last Week's Session - MaGoons' (Mahai'ula Bay)

Quiet overcast day - not much color - not much shade, but here you go:

Newly Hung at the Kailua Village Artists' Gallery

more palms - this one from Mahai'ula, I like to call it - MaGoons - now showing at the Kailua Village Artists Gallery - downtown

South end - Mahai'ula Bay - 9x12 - plein air oils

New Work Showing

I've replaced nearly all of my work at the Kailua-town Kailua Village Artists' Gallery, across from the Kona Inn in the Kona Market Place.  Reception this Friday - april 11th - 4p to 7p, please come by.

New Work:

Dancing Palms - 20x16 - plein air oils

Friday's Painting - a non-spoiled SKOIL

Still working towards something simple, straightforward, and just on the verge of abstraction, I painted this one at keauhou bay with the west hawaii plein air painters:
keauhou shadow - plein air SKOIL

Why Plein Air?

The immediate response to that, of course, is "WHY NOT?" and there are a lot more why nots then there are whys, but let's first define terms.  I've worked a few galleries in my time and have always been relieved when approached by a client who knows what plein air means.  Simply it was a term used about the Impressionists' proclivity to paint "outside" and means "in the fresh air" or painting on site, and that opens up a whole bunch of problems that I'll go into in future entries. 

Plein air, for me, consists of totally immersing yourself in the act of painting - without hesitation, almost without thought - listening/smelling/feeling the environment - sand under your feet/sun on your face/breeze in your hair - and painting with abandon until the session is complete.  I have coordinated the West Hawaii Plein Air Painters for the last six or seven years.  We usually paint on Fridays in the morning because the light is better here coming over the mountain in the morning to our backs (face to the Pacific) and gradually clouding over to a glare around 1p.  The encouragement, then, is to paint from 9a to 12:30p and FINISH THE PAINTING!!! An alla prima experience of the best kind.  That's the philosophy of it, the mechanics and logistics of it are a lot more complicated then that - what to take - what to do without - easel?  and on and on - stay tuned and we'll travel along this path together, I've got a lot to say that I've never said so this should be a good journey for both of us.

Aloha nui loa,

richard

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Have you ever skoiled?

new skoil from a few weeks ago - still working on water this year - 

"kaloko ponds" - 9x6 - plein air skoil

More Skoils for you?

SKOILS are SKetches in OILS, painted in one go (ala prima) and completed in about 45 minutes on loose canvas - 6x9 size (because that's half of a full sheet of loose canvas).  Here are some:

City of Refuge - 6x9 - plein air skoil

Another painting session with the West Hawaii Plein Air Painters - this one turned out to be a tailgate party and we had two guest painters show up, neither of us knowing the other was going to be there.  Nice when that happens.

Hualalai Clouds over the pele grass - 9x6 plein air skoil

Out solo on this one - in the mornings the grass out here between the National Energy Lab and Queen K glows with some kind of inner light - didn't get it this time - maybe next  . . . 

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 Skoil's Still the Thing

Yeah I know I know - you'd think that painting on the Big Island of Hawaii would be an easy thing, but it has it's own special challenges - like finding a place to stand where there will be shade for a few hours.

SKOILS are SKetches in OILS, painted in one go (ala prima) and completed in about 45 minutes on loose canvas - 6x9 size (because that's half of a full sheet of loose canvas). Here are some of them:

Chinaman's Hat - Old Airport - 9x6 - Plein Air Skoil

Thru the Butcher Shop Window - Holualoa

6x9 - Plein Air Skoil

Plein Air Painting Locations - Kona Coast

PLEIN AIR PAINTERS

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I have a workable web site with photographs of the West Hawaii Plein Air Painters favorite painting sites on the Kona Coast as well as connections to Google maps for each.

Please visit at:

https://picasaweb.google.com/113997414112254740144

If you find any missing links or problems let me know.  This is a work in progress and I’ll be adding more photographs and more sites from all parts of the island – so if you’re from anywhere else then here, I hope this will be some value in picking a painting site and getting there.  I’ll also be adding some of my paintings to the site specific albums – might be fun.

Aloha nui loa,

richard

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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a few artist trading cards

artist trading cards are 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" paintings, either original or editions (ACEO is the nomenclature - "Artist Trading  Card Edition or Original") - these are original oils:

hualalai morning - oils

kiholo north - acrylics

Throughness - what's behind the patterns

A concept i've been thinking about for years and thought i'd lost sight of - so i went through a lot of the stuff that hasn't seen the light of day for decades and put this montage together.  Turn up the sound and enjoy (there's a full screen button in the lower right corner - please use it).

Let me know what you think.

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