It's true, palm trees are a godsend to painters. They move, they dance, they shimmer with light, a big quivering focal point ready to help define a summer sunset with tropical poetry. This piece is yet unnamed, it's 22x30", watercolor on pretty awesome paper, Fabriano to be exact. SOLD
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A somewhat blustery day in January yielded this sunset just before it turned in for the night. The motion of the Pacific never ceases to fascinate me, let alone the dramatic and sometimes technicolor interplays of light. Oil on canvas, 40"x60"
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One morning last December, my sister and I stood admiring a beautiful sunrise over Kailua-Kona, enjoying coffee and conversation and the pulse of the waves below. This piece was largely a joy to paint, though I had several challenges along the way, which is why I paint. What would the point be if there were no challenges along the way? Oil on canvas, 29"x18", this is another piece that utilizes ...
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One of the most beautiful and peaceful places I've ever been, the Byodo-In Temple sits right below the mysterious other-worldly Ko'olau mountains on the island of Oahu. Year-round residents include finches, doves, and other songbirds who will eat seed right out of your hand, and a herd of very fat & happy Koi. It was a beautiful place to spend a quiet afternoon with friends as the mist moved across ...
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One of those beautiful windswept days in Waimea, which I love as it reminds me of Colorado. Big sky on that part of the island! This road is part of the historic Parker Ranch. I've been using these canvases recently, made by Masterpiece Canvas, which follow the ratio for the Golden Rectangle, also known as the Fibonacci Sequence. It's amazing how easily composition flows with these canvases. “Without mathematics," after ...
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One of my favorite swimming spots near my home is at Kaloko Honokohau, a National Park here on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kaloko means pond, and the ancient Hawaiians built a seawall using just stone building an effective fish trap. I love to bob in the water there, it's sheltered and has such a sense of history and place. This day in particular also had a rare clear view ...
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I often wish I could work in the same media and format all the time. For one thing it would make framing and photographing that much easier, not to mention branding myself as an artist. That being said, I enjoy the challenge of other media too much, and feel that it's important to match the right media and scale to the image I'm painting. As with so many other things ...
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Walking through the woods near my home one calm evening, I paused to admire this view, the light shining through trees, bouncing off a small lagoon. Above me a barred owl called, startling me. In the woods behind another owl answered, then another. As they prepared for their evening activities, with the light glowing all around, the trees reaching skyward, a feeling of profound awe and peace came over me.
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My girlfriend and I stood in the parking lot at Punalu’u Beach on the big island of Hawaii, waiting for her sister to come back from the restroom. We had already been to the beach, a true black sand beach, crowded that day with tourists and locals. It was a windy, cloudy day, and the bay was crowded with whitecaps as waves drove into the beach. I waited by the ...
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There's something amazing about the light on the Olympic Peninsula. Sure, we have a lot of gray drizzly days, but when the sun makes an appearance it really puts on a show. Similar to being at high altitude, the light is clear, dazzling and brilliant, and it makes most of us a little bit silly. This is a popular walk, usually populated with people and their cavorting dogs, but on ...
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