Updates about what's on my easel and more...
Now that summer is done, it’s time to catch up. The Hale’iwa Arts Festival was a great weekend with fantastic weather and good crowds. One of my paintings was featured in the magazine for the festival and another painting was used in the television commercial. Here’s a photo of my booth during the show.
Booth at Hale'iwa Arts Festival
The next few posts will be some of my recent paintings. Now it is time to get back to painting….
This is an encaustic work that I finished a while ago. I was honored to have it accepted into the WAG Juried Show in May. I just got it back from being scanned and now have a beautiful image of the work. Encaustics have been around for 4000 yrs and have lasted unbelievably through the years, but due to the nature of the beeswax used in the process, it can be damaged if exposed to temperature above 150F (i.e. inside a hot car, if your home gets that hot , you probably have bigger problems than the painting.)
Kanaloa and Pele - Pati O'Neal
I created this piece to take advantage of the properties of the medium and to get really into the spirit working with the heat and trying to capture it within the work. The different textures in the painting educes the energy of the Hawaiian goddess of the volcano, Pele, meeting the Hawaiian god of the ocean/underworld, Kanaloa, as molten lava flows into the ocean on the Big Island of Hawai’i. The original is 18″h x 36″w on a cradled panel. Limited edition giclées on heavy archival rag paper and open edition matted mini-prints are available through my website at www.pationeal.com.
Here is the blog I just wrote for the Women Aviation Artists website for an event I attended last month:
American Society of Aviation Artists 25th Annual International Aerospace Art Exhibition kicked off last month with a Forum and Awards Banquet in Pensacola, Florida at the National Museum of Naval Aviation. It followed the museum’s Centennial Celebration of Naval Aviation. This year’s exhibit has been given top viewing priority just inside the entrance and will be displayed through August 31, 2011. Out of 77 accepted works, 9 of them were done by Women Aviation Artists. Cher Pruys and Pati O’Neal both won awards in the General Aviation Category. Here are the accepted works:
In addition, in the Unjuried show at the Forum, Kristin Hill won the “Matt” Jeffferies Popular Choice Award and Merana Cadorette won the ASAA Founder’s Silver Ribbon Award.
All award winners can be viewed here: http://asaa-avart.org/exhibits_forums/awards2011.php
It was a great week full of education and camaraderie. WAA members attending were: Crissie Murphy, Kristin Hill, Merana Cadorette, Michelle Rouch, Mimi Stuart, Pati O’Neal, Peggie Foy, Priscilla Messner-Patterson and Sharon Rajnus.
The title of this piece is Hawaiian and translates to “crazy nehu”. Nehu is the type of tidal pool fish in the painting. This work is another of my “scaintings”, a sculptural painting. I wanted to capture the liveliness and undulation that goes on in the tidal pools here in Hawai’i. It is oil on canvases mounted together, 23.5″ x 35.5″. It was included in the Windward Artist Guild’s 2010 juried show.
Nehu Pupule - Pati O'Neal
Here is a work of art that has been dubbed a “scainting”, since it is a cross between a painting and a sculpture. The medium is oil on canvas, five canvases mounted together. There were a few things that I was thinking about when I came up with this other than just painting a landscape scene of the Ko’olau Mountain Range as viewed from Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden in Kaneohe. I wanted to add to the textural feel and exemplify the peaks and valleys of the mountains. The other thought I had was more of nostalgic 70s sense; as I was envisioning all this green, an image of an avocado green ranch style house with these rectangular window cutouts to see the view, came to mind. Anyway, this is the result. It is 37.5″ w x 28″h.
Ko'olau Vista - Pati O'Neal
A natural depiction of the golden mean. This painting is of a costus speciosus as it pops up from the understory to shine in the sunlight. It is a 30″ x 40″ oil on canvas painting and is available at Sunshine Arts in Kahalu’u.
Spiral Costus - Pati O'Neal
Another small painting. Just 12 x 16 and is oil on canvas. This one done in a looser style of brushwork showing striking datura flowers. These flowers are also known as Angel’s Trumpets and you can see why. They change colors as they mature and swing easily in a breeze. I haven’t seen many plants on Oahu, but they are plentiful on Maui. I will be painting another of daturas shortly as this little gem is already sold.
Maui Daturas - Pati O'Neal
Newest little painting that I just completed. It is of a de Havilland Tiger Moth bi-plane viewed from under the wing of a Piper Cub above farm fields. Both planes are considered easy to fly and were used as trainers in their respective countries. This painting is oil on canvas and is 11″h 14″w.
Tiger Moth and Cub - Pati O'Neal
I just found out that I got two paintings into this year’s upcoming ASAA (American Society of Aviation Artists) Exhibit in the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. The two entries are “Taylorcarft Heading Home” and “Afternoon Delights.” Both are 18″h x 24″w and are oil on canvas.
Afternoon Delights - Pati O'Neal
Birds of Paradise - Pati O'Neal
This painting, Birds of Paradise, was done as a commission for a lovely couple from Alaska as a gift for their friend. It is a companion piece to one that I did last year, ‘Awapuhi ‘Ula’ula.
'Awapuhi 'Ula'ula - Pati O'Neal
Both paintings are 12″ w x 24″h, oil on canvas and framed in black with a thin gold leaf liner. For these tropical floral paintings, I often go out to various gardens and go hiking for inspiration and photographs. I was fortunate in being able to find both of these in my mother’s yard.
