Orange Ti Leaves, tropical flower painting

Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
Painting can be purchased for $125 plus $6 s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

Tropical flower paintings are always a great source of inspiration. This one is of the exotic Ti leaves that are found around Hawaii and other tropical islands. I was struck by the bright orange that is illuminated by the sun shining through the leaves. I had done a similar painting to this a few months back that sold and I plan on doing some large work later this year with these illuminated themes.


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White and Yellow Plumeria...and a wealthy Shakespeare

Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
Painting can be purchased for $125 plus $6 s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

Here is an interesting link to an article that suggests that a painting from the early 1600s is indeed Shakespeare. http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/09/william.shakespeare.portrait/index.html

What's most interesting is that, if true, it supports the theory that Shakespeare was a wealthy man. Of course we will never really know for sure but it is interesting to speculate!


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Light Pink Ginger...and so little to say

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
Painting can be purchased for $125 plus $6 s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

This has been a somewhat hectic week but as everyone says, busy is good! I'm looking forward to creating some more of these back lit flowers...was up very early, bustling around and preparing my studio for a visit...so much to do this week and yet I have so little to say! So I'll let my painting, above, speak for me instead.

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Violet Banana Fruit... and a perfectly balmy day

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
Painting can be purchased for $125 plus $6 s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

I'm very inspired today...woke up to really balmy weather here in California...am working on a new oil painting that incorporates the dramatic mountains of Oahu and the weather is adding the perfect ambiance to my working environment. It's supposed to rain but I have my studio windows open and the scraping of the palm fronds that surround my house are the perfect sound. There's a slight breeze. The outside temp is really comfortable. As I write this blog from my office below, I am also listening to the sound of the waterfall in our pond.

The particular piece that I'm working on today is an Oahu North Shore scene that is from the viewpoint of Sunset Beach area looking in the direction of the mountains that loom over Waimea Bay.

During my last trip in January, I was really awestruck by the intense beauty of the mountains, which has never been a subject that I've been taken with before. It's tempting to try to catch every detail in every crag and nook but I know better than that...that softening up the details in the distance adds a more balanced feeling of depth...am hoping to make a lot of progress on this painting today and perhaps bring it to a point where it can sit and dry in my studio for a while.

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