I haven't posted in a while....

oops. Sorry. Ha. so here's some stuff. Since the semester is just about over I'll have a lot of stuff to upload soon. I've been a little bit lazy. Ha.

This last one isn't finished. I started it from the photo (left) but the image became unmanageably large. Hence why parts are missing. But- it was an intense learning experience. will I finish it? unlikely.

February Visit

Chris' parents came to visit a couple weeks ago. I have more pictures but blogger doesn't want to let me upload them. So. . . more to come!

Figure Sketches

all of these were done with conte crayon on newsprint. all are live models.all

Boneshaker Bicycles

Practice/ self promo for intermediate visual design class. Maybe someday I will open my bike shop, but for now I will pretend.

Kona, Big Island Trip

Not all of these photos were taken by me- specifically the ones that I'm in. Those were done by Chris.


Volcanoes National ParkSmoldering Kilauea "Turtle Pond". Named by us, in Hilo.




Thurston Lava Tube. 500 ft long.

Manago Hotel in Captain Cook, HI.


The actual Captain Cook Monument is only accessible by kayak/boating or a two mile ( very steep) Hike. But this is on the other side of the bay.


Kahalu'u Beach Park
St. Peters by the Bay.

Lava Rocks
Kahalu'u again, out of order.
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Discovering Laie

For anyone who looks at this blog- which is probably only people I have regular contact with anyway- I recently was admitted into the BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) program here at BYU-Hawaii. I have been waiting on this for a while- and I'm really excited that I got it. I will still be majoring in 2 dimensional art (painting mostly) but the Fine Arts status is just a bit better than the Bachelor of Arts. Well...I mean you have to apply with a portfolio, but you get to present a senior show. To my point: I have been thinking about what I want to do as a theme for my senior show. The other day while I was walking around taking pictures and drawing I had an idea of what I wanted to do...let me preface this by saying that its in the beginning stages of course, and also I have to get approval from my professor/mentor before doing so.
I want to do a walking tour of Laie. Maybe not walking, I don't know, I'll probably change that, but something of a travel log, or illustrative essay on Laie as a town. I'm going to ask my professor about this though, because I don't want to do something that one hundred other people have done. I've been seeing a lot of flowers and tropical plants lately. LOTS. Which I love but I want to do something different. I'm doing a combination of photographs, drawings and several large paintings. I want to post them up in a sort of story-board/collage/travel log kind of way. And I want people looking at it to say "oh hey, I live there" or "I walk past that all the time".

I will be posting more of this over the coming months- hopefully. I've decided even if I don't do this as my senior show, that I will still work on it as a personal project. I feel that, among lots of other things, it's a good way to connect with this beautiful place that I live.

So without further ado, the first installment of my visual discovery of Laie.