Cool Images Found Over the Weekend

Avi Kiriaty posts on Facebook. Cool "life in the islands" inspired paintings that I wish I could afford. Tattoo Zissou Wouldn't want this to be you

Other Stops Along the Way

One of the art galleries in the North SHore Marketplace was closing down and they had a sale going on. We didn't purchase anything, but they did have a bunch of really cool fish art. In honor of it being La's Birthday, and to pay homage to the fish sculptures that were on sale and we didn't buy, I was inspired to walk around the rest of the day with their expression. La was seriously impressed ;)

Kailua Shopping Center Fish Art

Lining the columns at the Kailua Shopping Center

Oceanic Glass

Some cool glass art that Noe took a fondness to at a local gallery.

First Hand Plane Coming Together

Here's the first of the set of three I had lined up in the hopper. This one is way out in front of the other two (so don't hold your breath to see the others any time soon). Here it is after the Sharpie artwork (High '5' Octo) and the first coat of polyurethane. I hope to be able to get this in the water by the weekend. I still have to put an FCS plug in for the GoPro mount and fit in the hand strap nuts. We'll see...

Fish Painting in Sansei Sushi

A wonderful three panel painting with a lot of the pelagic fish that you can find swimming offshore

One Fish, Two Fish, Bluefish, Four Fish

We were driving around and checking out some neighborhoods - this model house had a cool quad set of fish paintings. Looks like watercolors. The houses were nice too

First Gyotaku Framed Up (completely finished)

So with all the gyotaku I've made, I haven't gotten one framed and done. Until now... I took the big Ulua/Giant Trevally/Talikitok print to Michaels to get it framed and the estimate was gut wrenching - that was back last summer. I recently found a place to take some framing lessons and over the past couple of weekends, I have been working to get a few of these gyotaku buttoned up and hung on the wall. I was on track to get two done yesterday - the darts and the half-eaten barracuda (yes you saw it here first - a half eaten gyotaku) - but I am still going through the learning curve. I did manage to get this one finished and on the wall. Not bad if I say so myself. I should get the big one done next Saturday - that's the one I am looking forward to.