This was a really nice find for me. A beautiful old set of Chinese doors with hand-carved designs at the top is hiding an unusable back entrance to a popular Asian restaurant in Chinatown, Honolulu.
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2009Jul 151
tags: Chinese doors | Honolulu | Indigo Restaurant -
2009Jul 12
tags: Honolulu | Sans Souci Beach | Sketchcrawl #23
Today I participated in Sketchcrawl #23. My first sketch was done at my own beach. The police arrived to warn people about dogs causing problems on the beach. Water was calm and clear and gorgeous!
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2009Mar 17
tags: Honolulu | kindergarten | Waikiki Aquarium | watercolor and ink pen
The Waikiki Aquarium is close to where I live. Today we finally had tropical weather again after a long period of ugliness and I felt like going out for a sketch. This was part of a larger group of kindergateners who had come to a grassy area beside the Aquarium with chaperones to enjoy lunch in the part after visiting the Aquarium.
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2009Feb 22
tags: Academy Art Center | Honolulu | ink and watercolor
The Academy Art Center is part of the Honolulu Academy of Arts and I have taken many different types of art classes here. It is a beautiful piece of architecture and the front steps are actually semicircular. However mine didn’t come out that way!
I believe it is built with blocks of coral, like many of our other older buildings.
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2009Feb 4
tags: Honolulu | Kalakaua Avenue | watercolor and Micron pen
This small statue I found hidden in a hedge just in front of 2999 Kalakaua Ave. apartment building.
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2009Jan 31
tags: Coconut Ave. | Honolulu | Micron pen and acrylic
This is another mural painted on the same Coconut Ave. home. I especially like how they incorporated the U.S. MAIL box and the faucet on the wall.
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2009Jan 23
tags: Coconut Ave. | Egyptian | Honolulu | horse | mural
I stumbled upon this mural on the wall of a home while poking around my neighborhood. It was very colorful in hot pinks and other tropical colors, but I decided to stick with black and white. The designs around it are my own creations.
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2009Jan 1
tags: Ezekiel | Hawaii | Honolulu | surfing | Waikiki | www.lindabachrach.com
This is a slice of life in Waikiki this morning. I assume these are the Star Beachboys of days gone by. I colored this at home with acrylic paints.
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2008Dec 30
tags: Honolulu | Robert Lewis Stevenson | Tusitala | Waikiki | www.lindabachrach.com
These funky homes and cottages of old Honolulu are nearly gone and I like to draw some of my all-time favorites. In spite of how presentable my sketch made it look, this place has a charm all its own, with whirygigs and other paraphernalia cluttering up the place, but giving the house a wonderful character. I was delighted to find it still standing when I came to sketch it this morning. The street name “Tusitala” means “story teller” in Samoan. Robert Lewis Stevenson adopted this as his local name when he spent time here in Honolulu.
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2008Dec 24
tags: Ala Wai Canal | birds | Honolulu | lindabachrach.com
I met these birds along the Ala Wai Canal this morning. One strange looking bird was fishing as was one of the white ones. The other is a pigeon. We have mostly white pigeons here in Hawaii….not sure why.
This is a painting study reproducing the lovely work from a...
