Rebecca Snow

SANDY SHORE BANYAN IN HONOLULU HAWAII

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:06:00 +0000

Banyan Paintings by Rebecca Snow of Honolulu

$325.00

"Sandy Shore Banyan"

Banyan Beauty of Waikiki

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:41:00 +0000

painting by Rebecca Snow of Honolulu

Banyan Beauty of Waikiki

acrylic on museum wrap canvas
$325.00

I usually write a little silly poem...but...instead a comment...

This Banyan is at Kapilani Park in Waikiki, or it was the last time I was there.
Once in a while someone gets a wild idea to chop down a tree. In my backyard
several trees were sacrificed recently. The neighbors at the high rise next door
can watch their television and mine now. They can hear me and I can hear them.
Privacy is gone and the joy of cool shade is no longer.

"Oh I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree."

KOA BOARDS (unfinished) for your approval

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:04:00 +0000

honolulu artist, rebecca snow

KOA BOARDS

run for the hills
or grab your board
this is the question
LORD

TALKING TURTLES IN HONOLULU

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:58:00 +0000

paintings by Rebecca Snow

MICHYKO and the TALKING TURTLE

He has a shell so thick
tis true
but so do I
so do I
He was not all that quick
oh pooh
neither am I
nor am I
I got the message
without his voice
I knew what I had to know
"vulnerable" it's just okay
and you'll get where you want to go

pleasure palms

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:33:00 +0000

PAINTING IN HONOLULU

"PLEASURE PALMS"

He spoke to me in a garbled whispers
He wanted me to come and play
He promised me a perfect pleasure
He was not joking, I should stay

True Peace Palm

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:48:00 +0000

O'ahu Palm Tree Painting

True Peace Palm

14x6 canvas

Acrylic

2012 Christmas Present to Maria Okimoto

prints available at Kuloko Gallery Waikiki

True Peace Palm

The iconic palm that says "relax"

near the ocean edge so jagged

tells us all in finding peace

the turmoil's not withstanding

TIGER AT THE BEACH

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:51:00 +0000

TIGER AT THE BEACH

acrylic on paper

priceless

Koko Head Paddle

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:46:00 +0000

Koko Head Paddle

acrylic on canvas

$325.00

Painted Plein Air

Hula in O'ahu

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:42:00 +0000

Hula in O'ahu

acrylic on canvas

$450.00

why so sad

Hula Girl?

She is sad

because she find

that her grass skirt

not cover her behind.

Better get to hula

Better work out hard

ain't but so much grass

in Hula Girl's backyard.

Afternoon Outriggers

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:58:00 +0000

"Afternoon Outriggers"

original large square canvas

$1200.00

Resting close to the road near Haliewa I saw several outriggers.

Some days they are just lazy like me, going nowhere.

I don't see people resting under the palms. We are all too busy.

That is why I like this painting so much.

I just like thinking about doing nothing and going nowhere.

Ain't that a beautiful thought.

SURFER GIRL

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:50:00 +0000

Surfer Girl

11x14 acrylic on Canvas

$175.00

Tucked away along the North Shore of O'ahu are several life guard stations.

This one is a favorite of mine. If you find it , you'll find me, painting and swimming

and flirting with the lifeguards.

Beach Buggy from Rebecca Snow

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:48:00 +0000

Beach Buggy Hawaii
photographed by Rebecca Snow

A BIG plan to paint the beach buggies will end up in a whirlwind of wild paintings.
Just give me a few days, I am on a roll..hee hee..a beach buggy roll on the dunes.

email link

HOW TO PAINT A BOAT (what not to do)

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:27:00 +0000

PAINTING OF A BOAT

What not to do

The DOUBLE D

a boat at pier 38 Honolulu

$80 bucks --going once, going twice

unfinished of course

What not to do

1. don't paint alone at a dock , take a friend

2. If it is windy and hot, wear a hat and cover yourself with sunscreen

also purchase UV protective clothing so you don't look like an old piece of dried beef jerky

3. Do a drawing of your subject in the format you expect to paint

and make room for the whole boat...as I did NOT do.

4. decide early on what you love about the subject

and make that the center of attention

5. have a great peanut butter sandwich along since that is what Mark N. Brown eats

and he can paint like no one else..it must help

6. he also eats a fruit salad, so take that along too

7. never make the letters or numbers exact, they take all the attention,

and really crazy to make them black, duh

8. oh , I did ask the guy to pose for me in the doorway, he looks posed,

but that was better than NO guy at all and it was difficult to get them to model since most were doing laundry and hanging up on the boat.

fun to watch

I could go on and on

KANEOHE BAY GIRLS by REBECCA SNOW

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:17:00 +0000

write me if you've been to Kaneohe Bay

watercolor by Rebecca Snow -plein air artist on O'ahu

The Sandbar Girls at Kaneohe

watercolor

$150.00

not too deep in the ocean

not too far out to sea

always too much of a good thing

that's where you'll always find me

Kula Kai AGAIN

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:09:00 +0000

black and white study of the Kula Kai

Kula Kai at Kewalo Basin in Honolulu

watercolor on 300 lb paper

$250.00

Ken Hosmer
taught a class for the Hawaii Watercolor Society.
I am excited to say that is was spectacular.
If you ever get a chance to take a lesson with him...do it.

Ohai Alii

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:57:00 +0000

"Perfect Pink Hawaii Flower"

watercolor

$180.00

The Ohai Ali'i plant has tiny little orchid shaped flowers.

So delicate and light with long pods dangling like jewelry from

the stems. It is a lucky day when you sit and watch the tradewinds

swirl the Ohai Alii into a little frenzy.

Bishop on the Ukulele

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:47:00 +0000

At Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu,
not too far from the busy streets of Waikiki,
there sits Bishop on his Ukulele.
He sang for me a while back and I finally painted his picture.
I have to still add some background, but I like it just as is enough to post it.

It captures Bishop.

Bishop on the Ukulele

watercolor on 300 lb paper

HOW TO PAINT A BEACH PARTY

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:45:00 +0000

                                                                 ORANGE BOARDS
                                                                 party price $1500.00

step 1. hire a model to pose in 7 to 15 gesture poses (10 minutes each max)
step 2. use a big 3 ft x 3 ft canvas or bigger, it's a party don't make it feel small
step 3. get in the party mood (party beverages , party food, party hat, party attitude)
step 4. it's a party so be happy and turn on the party music
step 5. use a wet large (2 inch) brush , prefer flat, and party colors,
            if you are scared of paint, then start with water soluable crayons to draw
step 6. record gesture poses while the model is on a timer, don't worry if you are finished each pose
step 7. paint in big bold strokes , picking up paint and slopping it on with NO worries
step 8. ahhhh I can feel you fretting, you are not partying enough..drink more party beverage and          have some cake and ice cream while you're at it
step 9. send the model home and let the painting dry over night ...keep it on the wall at the end of your bed so you wake up to it and see it with fresh eyes.
step 10, add bathing suits to them , alternate warm color then cool so they stand out.
step 11, if they overlap oddly then just let them blend, like a party..people bump into people.
               no worries.

Several Chances

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:25:00 +0000

In my family the "do over" was accepted and encouraged. We always had several chances to get the golf ball in the hole at miniature golf and my mother actually taped off all the CHUTES in "Chutes and Ladders" . It was completely logical to her that a game should be FUN . I agree.

                                                               Several Chances
                                                                     $1500.00
                                                               acrylic on canvas

In keeping with the "do over" and the "try it as many times as you like",
I have adapted a new way to paint figures that I love. It truly embraces the "do over" and over and over and over. I love the flow of a "do over" because it is not about doing it wrong once but instead about
doing it unto prefection. If they stop ya at one time you never get there. So raise a glass to the "do over".

In this painting some of the figures are more finished than others, they flow into each other without reason. They are a composition born of attempts with no break in the energy. It is my goal that in seeing one you flow to the next and are surprised to see, yet, another. Your surprise is that you are looking at the stacatto strokes in one girl and before you can rest your eyes there is another.

In life, please feel free to screw up and leave it alone, then screw up again and don't dwell on it...then
screw up again. You can have several tries but I think 7 is about right. Eight seems a little over the top.

just joking , but once is never enough.

Artist of Hawaii

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:26:00 +0000

Painting at Ala Moana Beach Park

painting on my little french easel at San Souci

painting on the table top easel in Kuloko Gallery

painting in Kailua at the Beach Park

painting on the back of a boat in Kaneohe

painting and teaching at Bellow Beach with fun folks

San Souci

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:58:00 +0000

San Souci Sun

This is Kaimana Beach Park on the ocean at the New Otani Hotel

Home to 2H life saving station

Acrylic on Canvas

$1500.00

SAN SOUCI 2H STATION

The ocean is calm

and the waves are afraid,

Kent spoke to the sea.

He told it "be gentle

to all the fair ladies

so they will be gentle to me"

Thank you Kent for standing guard at 2H.

We all feel a little safer knowing you are there.

Don Ho out back of the little grass shack

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:09:00 +0000

Don Ho

singing on his ukulele

$325.00 acrylic on board

I want to go back to my little grass shack

In Kealakekua, Hawai`i

Where the humuhumunukunukuâpua`a

Go swimming by

hot cool hot

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 06:42:00 +0000

$175.00

hot hot cool

acrylic on board

Red Hot and Cool

I had red high heel shoes

I bought in Italy

They were so sexy

even without my feet in them

it is so hot to be cool when your hot

http://www.letsgo-hawaii.com/volcano/lavaflow.html

Plumeria Girls at Hibiscus Walk

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:06:00 +0000

Plumeria Girls on Hibiscus Walk in Waikiki

Acrylic on Canvas

$1500

Plumeria Girls

Asuka and Saki and in the blue Yuuka

Floating with Umbrellas on the streets of Waikiki

Don't know why the suntan people lay out on the beach

when there is so much shopping right within their reach

Ko'olaus of O'ahu

noreply@blogger.com (Rebecca Snow) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:53:00 +0000

Ko'olaus

acrylic on canvas

$350.00