Lehua Rain

Playing with watercolors in a new sketchbook (Stillman & Birn Zeta series), working through ideas for a new painting…and, well… one thing led to another.

In a world of gray

Thoughts of love grow like ‘ōhi’a

‘I’iwi sing in lehua rain

A native tree in the Hawaiian islands, the ʻōhiʻa lehua is the first plant to grow on new areas of lava flow. The ‘I’iwi is a scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, a native bird with a unique bill shaped for drinking nectar.  The term “lehua rain” refers to the legend of the ‘ōhi’a tree where plucking a flower causes the heavens to weep at the separation of two lovers, ‘Ōhi’a and Lehua.

Draw a bird day: Bluebirds?

In part to celebrate  Laura’s (Create Art Everyday) Draw a Bird Day, (every 8th day of the month), and in part because I have noticed many references to bluebirds lately, the most recent being Jodi’s adorable Prussian Blue-bird (Life In Between), I thought I would offer my morning sketch/doodle as a small, off-beat, token to the cosmos. Happy Draw a Bird Day!

Bluebirds