8×10 oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas, tropical Hawaiian oil beach painting by artist Jenny Floravita

This is the second Waimanalo Beach painting for an Australian client who was married on this very beach just last week. If you are wondering where Waimanalo Beach is, it’s on Oahu which is one of the Hawaiian Islands. Oahu is the island that has Waikiki and Honolulu and Pearl Harbor…and I mention this just because those of you who know better would be surprised at home many people who have been there don’t know it’s Oahu and not Hawaii (which is the Big Island). Often when I refer to paintings, I’ll also just say Hawaii and not be too specific but in case you want to know where this lovely beach is, now you do! It’s very popular for weddings!

My clients stayed in Waikiki and as I was also staying in Waikiki just a few days prior to their wedding so I carried their three oil paintings with me on the plane and delivered them to their hotel. I was happy to do this because shipping to Austrailia is a bit more expensive than shipping in the US—was happy to find a solution to save a bit of money on shipping. I’m always trying to be efficient with shipping as shipping is one of my biggest costs in my art business.

Their paintings were waiting safely for them in a box at the front desk when they arrived. Now, that’s a service I can’t normally provide!

On the day that my mother and mother-in-law and my young son were flying out of HNL there was an attack at a major airport in Brussels…and though I feel always extremely safe in Hawaii, no matter which island I am on, it wasn’t lost on me that that my great-uncle served on the USS West Virginia during th

e Pearl Harbor attacks. What a crazy world that we live in!!

Back to my Waimanalo Beach painting—it’s loosely painted to capture the essence of this fantastic beach. I painted a lot of movement into the sky and ocean and the mountains beyond have their own mood. This is a 10×8 oil painting on gallery wrapped canvas. I’ve continued the painting all around the edge of the ca

nvas so it’s ready to put on a mantel or hang on a wall on a nail. Each of these paintings will be given as gifts to parents of the bride and groom so these are special little oil paintings and I put a lot of thought into them.