People of Interest

People who caught my eye during my recent Hawaiian sketching holiday.

At the gate:

 On the plane:

Pretty Boy 1

Pretty Boy 2

Grandma

Blonde Curls

Tattooed Glamor Girl

During my pedicure at Smiley Nails:

Pedicurist

During Sherryl's psychic reading:

Out and about:

Jamal (in dreadlocks)

Sunbather Beach 69

Bow tie girl at Brasserie du Vin in China Town

Shirtless old guy blowing a conch horn

Fit European in China Town

Waitress - Ken's House of Pancakes

Park Ranger Phyllis

Real Hawaiin (or Samoan?) dad

Thang French Coffee and Smoothies

Sketchers Oahu Holiday

Trio of Whidbey Island Sketchers ----Sue, Robin and Sherryl---on my couch. And Bishop Museum's exhibit of Alfred Shaheen's vintage aloha wear.

Sketchers Oahu Holiday

Sue and Sherryl at Mokuleia Beach prior to Sue's Big Adventure. Then the Lost Slipper Tree at Waimea Bay on Oahu's North Shore.

Sketchers Oahu Holiday

Daredevilish Sue geared up and ready to skydive at Dillingham Airfield on Oahu's North Shore.

Big Island Sketching

We had a week on the Gold Coast of the Big Island, staying with friends in a condo. This was not my "sketching week", but I managed to get a few sketches in anyway, especially on the beach days!

Beach 69

Kids digging a well on the beach. They did hit water!

Bob, reading at Beach 69

Sitting across from Candace at Lava Lava Beach Club

Beach 69

Beach 69

View from the condo lanai

Candace, bird watching at Place of Refuge

The pool at our condo

Waiting at the gate at Kona Airport with purple ink and a box of Neocolor II

Stay tuned for week two on Oahu with Cathy, Sherryl and Robin!

Hawaiian Sketching Holiday

Reporting from the Whidbey Island Sketchers' Honolulu Bureau......

Manta Ray 

Sandy Toe Beach

Lei Stands at the Honolulu Airport

So much fun sketching with Sue while awaiting Sherryl's flight from Kona. 

Aloha from Arthur's Leis

Cathy and I had a lot of time on our hands while we waited for Sherryl's much delayed flight from the Big Island to arrive, so we sketched at the airport lei stands.  Cathy gets her leis at Arthur's because they have Plumeria leis, which are apparently hard to come by this time of year. Susan and Marie were very friendly and gracious as  I sat and sketched them making leis all afternoon.

Susan working on a lei

Valentine's Day roses and Marie making leis

Marie and Susan

Here's a little lei trivia. Do you know the busiest time of year for selling leis? Mother's Day. And who buys the most leis on Mother's Day? Samoans. They really take good care of their mothers. Just one of the things I learned while sketching at Arthur's Leis.

Island Images

Surfboard graveyard; Mahimahi for dinner!; Bev's slippers-----Kauai dirt paints everything "rust".

Aoki's Shave Ice

We drove out to the North Shore on my birthday in January. Aoki's Shave Ice has been there for 3 generations.

Umbrella Drinks

Aloha Sketchers,

Pete and I cruised around the islands last week aboard the Pride of America with a group of bridge players. Our boarding in Honolulu was greeted by Hawaiian music and these Mai tai-ready pineapples with their colorful umbrellas.

Cathy Hess

Celebrating on Kauai

This December, my husband and I celebrated our 50th (anniversary) on Kauai with our daughter and her three children. While there, I shot several photos of the beautiful landscape and flora and did some plein aire sketching. Sketching or painting near public gatherings always draws a curious crowd of people who are amazed that anyone would attempt to paint and are always very nice and complimentary. It's always a 'good feel' experience. There was never enough time to capture the beauty of the flowers, seascapes, people, and special sites.

My husband is in the pool watching granddaughter enjoy sliding down the fun slide into the wonderful pool that never needs to be heated!

This is a view from our condo patio of the Sleeping Bear Mountain outside Kapaa.

Hibiscus of several different colors grow everywhere on the island. Several bushes were growing on the grounds at the condo where we were staying plus red ginger and other plants I could not identify.

The sunrises and sunsets on Kauai are unbelievable with rich colors, dark purple clouds with several hues in lavender, gold, salmon and yellow. I walked out to the beach in front of our condo on Waipouli Beach to capture the photo at dawn when it was still slight dark in order to capture the best shot of the rising sun. This sketch was done today from that photo.

It was a good time to get off our island and celebrate a special occasion with my husband and family but it's always good to be back to normal on Whidbey with friends and continue with painting and sketching.