Blue Sugar Cane House

Oil on canvas, 12" X 12"
Painting can be purchased for $275 plus s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

One of the most challenging aspects of being an artist can be deciding which direction to take for a series of paintings. I enjoy exploring a theme be it color or subject, landscape or floral. I actually have several themes that I'd like to explore this winter...one of them being to create more mini-cottage paintings and then see them blossom into larger works.

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Aloha Retreat by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 10" X 20"
Painting can be purchased for $275 plus s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

I've decided to post some of my other size paintings on my "daily painting blog". In truth, sometimes I'm painting up a storm. Sometimes I'm on a roll with small, mini-paintings and other times it's the large canvases that call to my creative mind. So with this post, I'm going to begin occasionally showing larger works.

This piece, Aloha Retreat, is 10"x20.

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Coconut Glory by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 8" X 8"
Painting can be purchased for $125 plus s/h: from the artist, Jenny Floravita

I know that there's been a lot of doom and gloom in the news lately but I can't help feeling blessed. The sunny character of this painting reflects the joy of expressing my being through painting.

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Red Roof In Hawaii by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

What was interesting to me in this composition is the red roof against the lush greenery of flowers, bushes and trees. And, of course, the coconut palms rise out of the middle-tier greenery to tower above the scene.

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Slice of Island Life

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

This painting especially makes me think of my upcoming trip to the North Shore of Oahu in January. Even during times when I'm just flowing with inspiration, like now, it's good to restore in the islands. It renews my innovative mind as I'm always looking for new angles and ideas.

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Swaying Cocos Island House

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

I just love this little cream colored sugar cane shack and it's tall, swaying coco plams.

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Pink Elegance by Jenny Floravita

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 6" X 6"
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This is the time of year where I re-group and plan for my 2009 art festival season. I'll be on a roll with both my glass, hand painted chandelier lights and oil and watercolor paintings.�

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Sweet Red Flower

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
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Red heliconias are just so beautiful. I love the waxy, wispy shapes that grow up through the tropical foliage. These beautiful flowers are true favorites in the islands. And because of the bright, primary reds and primary yellows, I decided that I wanted to make the background like a soft focus wash of deep green, aqua blue and sun kissed lime.�

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Bird of Hope

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 6" X 6"
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The next series of paintings will be dedicated to my grandmother, who loved to garden in her time. I have many a memory of being with her and my great-grandmother, both of them tending to their vegetable garden and flowers in their yard behind the house. I remember the lath house that my grandfather built in which my Nanny would get all of her precious flowers started. I had my own little patch and usually they helped me grow something simple like green beans or strawberries out front. In the summer afternoons, I would go into the back and lounge on the swinging patio couch under the grape vines.

These women didn't grow exotics like I do. Bird of paradise flowers really weren't common to grow in their heyday but I know both of these full-blooded Italian women would love and appreciate the beauty of this flower. �

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Sunlit Ti Leaves

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
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You don't need to necessarily have flower in a composition to have a beautiful painting of leaves. These happen to be Hawaiian Ti leaves and I just love how the sunlight comes through them in the morning and late afternoon. Fire oranges and reds mixed with greens and soft lavender shadows create a peaceful yet energized piece. My own garden is so lush and I take frequent breaks between working on paintings. I'll either go out into my backyard filled with tropical glories or I'll sit under my front lanai and peer out through the lush banana leaves. I'm always trying to face towards a sunlight cluster of leaves.

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Soft Morning Light Against Green Sugar House

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
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I love this composition with the green cottage and the sunlight shining through, lighting up the beautiful gingers in front.

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Lotus Life

Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
Unsold paintings can be purchased for $95 plus $6 s/h: from the artist

Lotus flowers live in my pond in the summer time. I just love this exotic beauty. In my studio, I also paint magnificent glass chandeliers with exotic and tropical themes and the lots flower is one of my favorite flowers to incorporate into these pieces. This painting here was inspired by the detail of the center part of the flower against the bring magenta and warm yellow and gold tones. I play to do some larger paintings in oil for a gallery show in San Francisco in November.

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Red Joy, heliconia painting by Floravita

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
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Red heliconia flowers are striking and exotic. It's funny because when I travel, I'm always looking for new flowers to paint even though I may have a lot of images of the same kind of flower. I just love the way the leaves position themselves in the compostition with the flower. And the way the sunlight comes through is just breath taking. When I'm painting a flower, I'm look to make the color rich. I'm also looking for flowers that are kissed by the sun.

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Sunlight Bird of Paradise

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Fresco Watercolor Painting on Board, 8" X 8"
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Birds of paradise are lovely flowers. I grow them in my home garden and I frequently paint these exotics. They are among my best sellse at shows. This one is painted with a dramatic background.

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Sugar & Bamboo by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

Friday morning I head out to exhibit at the Scotts Valley Art & Wine Festival. I'm really looking forward to this show. And funny enough, one of my favorite bamboo gardens is just a couple towns away in Aptos. So in honor of that, here is yet another bamboo/tropical cottage inspired painting.

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The Simple Life by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
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Who wouldn't want to live in a tropical cottage?

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Delightful Blue Sugar Shack by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
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I get such a tremendous response from these sugar plantation paintings at the festivals that I exhibit at. They are simply a pleasure to paint.

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Plantation Life by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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Theses small paintings are a must-see in person.

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Yellow Summer Sugar House by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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Theses small paintings are a must-see in person.

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Green Garden Cottage by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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The contrast of color in the rich green against the yellows of the bananas in what draws me to paint this scene.

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Summer Day by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

Bamboo groves, swaying coco palms, blue skys...all the things that make a perfect island summer day.

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Calming Lake by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

This lake is one of my favorites!

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Beautiful Afternoon Sail by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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This small painting really is a must-see-in-person.

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Sugar Plantation Houses by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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I recently created a larger version of this scene with bamboo in front.

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Plumeria Cottage by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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It's a great joy to paint plantation cottages. For me there is such variety and the tropical flowers and greenery are endless.

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Flower Cottage by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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Here is a beautiful, white color sugar plantation cottage. This painting has more of a focus on the bounty of foliage and flowers.

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That's the Life by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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This is the life for some people! Boating in the afternoon, coming into the Poi Pu harbor on Kauai. Is it the life for you?

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Fun Snorkel at Lydgate State Park by Jenny Floravita

Watercolor on board, 8" X 8"
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This was a fun painting done on location at the Lydgate State Park on the East side of Kauai.

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Islander Beach by Jenny Floravita

Watercolor on board, 8" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

I painted this scene from my front lanai one morning while waiting for my husband to be ready for the day's adventures. It had been rainy for the past couple days and all of a sudden we woke to a beautiful, sunny tropical day!

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Paradise in Poi Pu by Jenny Floravita

Watercolor on board, 8" X 8"
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This is a beautiful beach on the South side of Kauai that you might recognize.

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Old Hawaii Shore by Jenny Floravita

Watercolor on board, 8" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

It's really fun for me to travel with watercolors. They are spontaneous and capture water and the movement of the ocean beautifully. This is one of my most favorite scenes on Kauai and I feel like it really has a "vintage" feeling and fittingly, it's the beach directly across from the historic Coco Palms resort.

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Island Home Lush by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 8"
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What inspired me to paint this scene was the lush background and the palms in front of the cottage.

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Sweet Island Breeze by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

Sometimes the wildest, most untamed settings make for the best paintings. That's how I feel about this piece. This is actually a scene that I came across on the South Shore of Kauai and I just fell in love with the untamed nature and mood of this little ocean front lot.

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Refugio Beach Dates, palms ocean by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

This is a favorite California coastal stretch and I have painted it many times. At some point in the upcoming year I intend to do some larger paintings of this area.

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Island Cove, palm beach ocean by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
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This beautiful little cove is in Poi Pu in Kauai.

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Windswept Beach, palms ocean by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

I just absolutely love this expansive beach and the movement of the palms in the wind. A while back I had done a small watercolor painting of a similar view. This small oil was a study for a larger piece that was created last month and is on my website and will be in the New Release section for April and part of May.

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Pink Exotic, flower Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 8" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $125 plus s/h: from the artist

This exotic came from our backyard pond, which is the size of a small swimming pool.

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Walk Through Town, palms hawaii Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 8" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $125 plus s/h: from the artist

As an artist, I'm constantly observing the world and that's where my inspiration comes from. Natural beauty is everywhere and I was taken with these palms against the morning sky.

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Morning in Paradise, palm trees Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 8" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $125 plus s/h: from the artist

A morning stroll in the islands is good for the soul. One can see some really dramatic skys right after dawn.

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Dawn in Kauai, beach palms Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 8" X 8"
Paintings can be purchased for $125 plus s/h: from the artist

I just love the morning lighting in the islands. This scene is from one of my favorite beaches in Kauai.

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Time to Reflect, tropical lake palms by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Kauai Ocean Mood, beach by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

This beautiful cove had a dramatic feeling. I loved the color of the water against the rich color of Kauai sand.

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Westcliff Drive, ocean santa cruz by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

For a bit of a change, I decided to paint a Santa Cruz scene. This is Westcliff Drive, a popular hangout for many types of ocean loving people. I personally love to take long walks along this scenic cliff.

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Banana Cottage, Kauai plantation cottage by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
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Bananas frame a small cottage. I love banana plants and they are one of my favorite plants...I do have many banana plants in my own yard.

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Happy Hawaii Cottage by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

A good friend of mine, who's great-grandparents lived in these very cottages and worked in the sugar plant nearby raised a family of 8 and these cottages only have one or two bedrooms. As she pointed out, we really take our modern spacious homes for granted.

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Hawaiian Blue Cottage by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

A good friend of mine, who's great-grandparents lived in these very cottages and worked in the sugar plant nearby raised a family of 8 and these cottages only have one or two bedrooms. As she pointed out, we really take our modern spacious homes for granted.

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Morning in Paradise, blue kauai plantation cottage by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

The islands are filled with these delightful little cottages. This one happens to be a cozy portrait of one of Kauai's Plantation Cottages on the West Shore.

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Sunlit Hawaiian Cottage, plantation by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

The islands are filled with these delightful little cottages. This one happens to be a cozy portrait of one of Kauai's Plantation Cottages on the West Shore.

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Blue Kauai Cottage by Jenny Floravita

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Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

The islands are filled with these delightful little cottages. This one happens to be a cozy portrait of one of Kauai's Plantation Cottages on the West Shore.

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Florida Lake Reflections, Palm Trees by Jenny Floravita

Oil on canvas, 6" X 6"
Paintings can be purchased for $95 plus s/h: from the artist

I love the tranquility in tropical lakes!

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