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Tradition

22 x 30 painting size, framed

This painting of the Pau Rider and horse in the King Kamehameha Day Parade on Ali’i Drive in Kona, Hawaii won the SMS Research & Marketing, the Sun Eden Gear and the Armadillo Art and Craft Award with the Hawaii Watercolor Society, fall 2013. 

I am happy for the acknowledgement and it is one of my favorite paintings now.  I’m so pleased with the faces of the boy and the horse and their eyes.  The background colors had oozed due to my mistake with the film frisket and masking fluid but I stayed calm, the painting was saved and turned out beautifully!  Oh, the joys of watercolor!

Mother of Compassion

30 x 22 painting size, framed

This lovely and graceful Quan Yin is giving the blessing and boon for inner peace that we all need.  I like how the light fills the background landscape, the azalea bush and the flowing water.  It was also in the HWS Open Show this fall.

Na Kane O Kailua

16 x 25 painting size, framed

 This painting was in the Helen M. Cassidy Juried Art Show sponsored by the Waimea Arts Council.  I took a photo of a perfect scene in Kailua, on Oahu, when I went there to study with the artist Robert O’Brien.  Many people are amazed at how realistic the men’s bodies are near their canoes, including the juror, Amaury Saint-Gilles.

Volcano Stroll
30 x 18

This was accepted into the Hawai’i Nei juried art exhibition in Hilo at the Wailoa Center, to benefit and educate the public about the native flora and fauna in Hawaii.  It is a painting of nene.  They are walking in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and I used very contemporary stylized colors.  I actually saw these nene in Maui, but changed the background from a tire of a car in the photograph to the Kilauea Iki Caldera instead as more fitting!

Aloha,

Diane

NEW WORK TO SHARE

Here are my new original watercolor paintings for you to view over the next couple of days on my blog.  I would love feedback about the paintings, as well as my blog and website.

Magnificent Iris

18 x 30 painting size, framed

Magnificent Iris received the SMS Research & Marketing, Sun Eden Award with the Hawaii Watercolor Society Members’ Show, spring 2013.  I flew to Honolulu for the reception to receive my first award.  There are these tiny irises that bloom periodically in my garden, so they are quite magnified in the painting in these striking, dramatic blues.  This painting was in the watercolor advertising section of the Southwest Art magazine, July 2013.

Shower of Grace

19 x 13 painting size, framed

Also in the same show as the above piece and I was told the juror was considering an award for it.  It’s been a very popular piece.  You can see banana trees all around Holualoa and the island.  In fact there are a number of them in my back yard!  The painting, deckled and floated with a lovely koa veneer frame is in Harbor Gallery in Kawaihae.

‘Aumakua Jewel

22 x 23 painting size, framed

You’ll find this jewel of a painting, a contemporary green sea turtle at the Harbor Gallery, with a solid koa frame.  There are many definitions of the Hawaiian word but one is guardian spirit or family protector.  The owners assure me it won’t last long in their gallery.

Brilliance

22 x 30 painting size, framed

This orange double hibiscus beauty was also in my garden, and I couldn’t resist using high intensity complimentary colors.  It is at Harbor Gallery, with a very elegant gold frame, deckled and floated on a red hued mat.

Hawaiian Brunch
11 x 15 painting size 

A small but delicious framed still life with mangoes, pears and orchid, I hope you’ll enjoy.  This painting is at Harbor Gallery.

Aloha,

Diane