Spring has arrived along with soft rains and new banana plant stalks are shooting up in the garden of my California studio. While I'm waiting for my garden to become green again, I'll be painting banana plants in my small Hawaiian waimea plantation cottage paintings...and dreaming of the lush season that follows. [...]
Hawaii in Summer is one of my newest mini Waimea Plantation Cottage Series paintings. Those of you who have been following my painting blogs for a couple years know that I can paint these small Hawaiian sugar cottages endlessly. This piece forgoes the usual island cottage blue and utilizes the colors of the sun. Bright [...]
Late last month I was blessed to visit Hawaii proper also known as Big Island. Hawaii is a very dynamic, living island. Though our entry and exit to and from the island happened late at night, if you fly in to land during the day you will be able to see how the lava effects [...]
I loved creating this special commissioned hand painted chandelier. This piece was created for a couple (who have also become friends as they are in my artist community) and will be moving to Florida. The actual chandelier is inspired by their memories of Hawaii. All of the flowers in this piece were from my client's [...]
This is a beautiful example of how to space three, tall slender paintings on a long wall. The dimensions for each of these oil paintings is 18"36".
