Walking at Paniau
Acrylic on  Gallery Wrapped Canvas 
12 x 16

$440

 At the end of the road at Puako is a shoreline access area. The ocean is directly behind us as we look back towards the road. When I was a small child in the early 1950s, a house very near this spot belonged to friends and I remember spending the night with them and seeing the tide-pools for the very first time, glowing in the early morning light. Someday perhaps I will paint that recollection!   Also in those days there was no television reception in Waimea, but you could watch TV down in Puako, so that memory emerges in this spot as well. Note the Hawaiian quilts hanging to dry in the background. The houses have all changed since those days, so there is no real accuracy here, but I do remember amazing quilts.

Wave at Kohanaiki
12 x 16
$440

 I began this painting on location sometime over the last year but cataracts intervened and it has been languishing unfinished. It now rises to the surface to be touched up and completed. 

Old Airport Garden
Acrylic on watercolor paper adhered to hardboard
9 x 12
Sold

I enjoyed painting this on location and meeting some of the hard working people that make these beautiful gardens. The place is bursting with life, so look for the dog and his person, the cat, and the mongoose. I have mixed feelings about all the animals here  - much as I love each of them, there are practical reasons not to feed cats in our environment - they eat a remarkable number of birds even when they are fed, and they carry diseases to some of our native animals. 

I enjoyed learning about the Golden Arrow Plumeria. What an interesting variety!

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